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The following is a list of notable deaths in April 1989.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

April 1989

1

• Roy Francis, 70, Welsh rugby league footballer and coach (Hull FC, Barrow, Wales).
• Nedda Harrigan, 89, American actress, cancer.
• Paul Jappe, 91, American NFL player (New York Giants). ^[1]
• Shreedhar Mahadev Joshi, 85, Indian politician and independence activist, Member of Parliament.
• Erich Lüth, 87, German writer and film director.
• Jan A. Rajchman, 77, Polish-American electrical engineer (Magnetic-core memory).
• George Robledo, 62, Chilean international footballer (Newcastle United, Chile), heart attack.

2

• E. Chambré Hardman, 89, Anglo-Irish photographer.
• Bill Munn, 77, Australian rules footballer. ^[2]
• Daniel Spry, 86, Canadian Army general during World War II.
• Zainon Munshi Sulaiman, 86, Malaysian politician, member of the Malaysian Parliament.
• Norman Zinberg, 76–76, American psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who studied addiction.

3

• Mustafa Çağatay, 51, Turkish-Cypriot politician, Prime Minister of Turkish Cyprus, traffic accident.
• Les Jones, 78, Australian rules footballer. ^[3]
• Friedrich-Jobst Volckamer von Kirchensittenbach, 94, Nazi German army general.
• Max Kroger, 90, Australian rules footballer. ^[4]
• Edward Martell, 80, British politician, member of the London County Council.
• Lev Nikitin, 63, Soviet Olympic sprint canoeist (1952). ^[5]
• Pinchas Hacohen Peli, 58, Israeli Orthodox rabbi, poet and scholar of Jewish philosophy.
• Vishnu Sahay, 87, Indian politician, Governor of Assam.
• Lester Warden, 48, Australian cricketer. ^[6]
• Norman Wooland, 79, English actor (Hamlet).

4

• Gerard Casey, appr. 29, member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, shot.
• Woody Crumbo, 77, American artist, flute player and dancer.
• John Gretton, 48, English peer, owner of Stapleford Park.
• Madeline Hurlock, 91, American silent-screen actress.
• Harvey Jablonsky, 80, American general in the U.S. Army, vice president of the Northrop Corporation, congestive heart failure. ^[7]
• Martti Luomanen, 82, Finnish Olympic middle-distance runner (1932). ^[8]
• Roberto Nicolosi, 74, Italian jazz double-bassist.
• Pete Richards, 83, American NFL player (Frankford Yellow Jackets). ^[9]
• Baruch Harold Wood, 79, English chess player, founded the magazine CHESS.

5

• Geoffrey Binnie, 80, British civil engineer and writer (Jubilee Dam, Eye Brook Reservoir).
• Frank Foss, 93, American pole vaulter and Olympic gold medalist (1920). ^[10]
• María Cristina Gómez, 46, El Salvadoran murder victim.
• Bill Gunn, 54, American playwright, actor and director ( Ganja and Hess ), encephalitis. ^[11]
• Harold Hayes, 62, American journalist and writer (Esquire magazine). ^[12]
• Marjorie Hoshelle, 71, American actress.
• Kurt Lischka, 79, Nazi German SS official, Gestapo chief and commandant of the Security police.
• Bill Mehlhorn, 90, American professional golfer.
• Karel Zeman, 78, Czech film director and animator (Cesta do pravěku, Na kometě).

6

• Zofia Batycka, 81, Polish model and actress.
• Elizabeth Becker-Pinkston, 86, American Olympic diver (1924, 1928). ^[13]
• Tufton Beamish, 72, British Army officer and politician, Member of Parliament.
• Torsten Billman, 79, Swedish artist.
• Sylvia Cassedy, 59, American novelist and poet ( Behind the Attic Wall ).
• Bruce Cunliffe, 63, American Olympic ice hockey player (1948). ^[14]
• Marion Holland, 80, American children's book writer and illustrator, cancer.
• Edelf Hosmann, 87, Argentine Olympic sailor (1936). ^[15]
• Tapani Niku, 94, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier (1924). ^[16]
• Pannalal Patel, 76, Indian author ( Malela Jeev , Manvini Bhavai ), brain haemorrhage.
• Michael Reusch, 75, Swiss Olympic gymnast (1936, 1948). ^[17]
• John Paul Riddle, 87, American pilot, co-founded Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. ^[18]
• David Wilson, 74, New Zealand cricketer.

7

• Hassan al-Amri, 68–69, Yemeni lieutenant general and Prime Minister of the Yemen Arab Republic.
• Amena Begum, 63–64, Bangladeshi politician, Member of Parliament.
• Efraín Morote Best, 67, Peruvian lawyer, chief administrator of San Cristóbal of Huamanga University.
• Jim Jones, 68, American NFL player (Detroit Lions). ^[19]
• Clyde Moody, 73, American Bluegrass musician.
• Evelyn Finley, 73, American B-movie actress and stuntwoman ( Ghost Guns ), heart failure.
• Cheng Nan-jung, 41, Taiwanese publisher and pro-democracy activist, suicide by immolation.
• André Reybaz, 59, French actor.
• Jack Ruby, 45–46, Jamaican record producer.
• Basawon Singh, 80, Indian independence activist, co-founder of the Congress Socialist Party.
• Elizabeth Sudmeier, 76, American spy, founding member of the Central Intelligence Agency.
• Garland Williams, 67, American football player (Brooklyn Dodgers). ^[20]

8

• Albert Bormann, 86, German Nazi Gruppenführer, adjutant to Adolf Hitler, brother of Martin Bormann.
• Andy Karl, 75, American MLB player (Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies, Boston Braves). ^[21]
• Lloyd Francis MacMahon, 76, American judge of the U.S. District Court, cerebral hemorrhage.
• A. M. Rajah, 59, Indian playback singer and music director, train accident.
• John Wyer, 79, English car racing engineer and team manager.

9

• Francesco De Zanna, 84, Italian Olympic bobsledder (1936). ^[22]
• Birger Holmqvist, 88, Swedish Olympic ice hockey player (1924, 1928). ^[23]
• Otto Huber, 75, American MLB player (Boston Bees). ^[24]
• Friedrich Ritter, 90, German botanist (cacti).
• Albert Vigoleis Thelen, 85, German author and translator.
• Carl Wessler, 75, American animator and comic book writer. ^[25]

10

• Joan Barry, 85, British actress ( Rome Express ).
• George Genereux, 54, Canadian trap shooter and Olympic gold medalist (1952). ^[26]
• Bessie Griffin, 66, American gospel singer, breast cancer. ^[27]
• Nikolai Grinko, 68, Ukrainian actor ( Ivan's Childhood , Stalker).
• Gaston Van Haezebrouck, 84, Belgian Olympic speed skater (1924). ^[28]
• Jacob Horton, American businessman, vice-president of Gulf Power, plane crash. ^[29]
• Takehiro Irokawa, 60, Japanese writer, heart attack.
• Sandy Sandberg, 78, American NFL footballer (Pittsburgh Pirates).

11

• Noel Carrington, 93–94, English author and publisher, founder of Puffin Books.
• Emil Grosswald, 76, Romanian-American mathematician (number theory).
• Hiram Sherman, 81, American actor (Two's Company; How Now, Dow Jones ), stroke. ^[30]
• Sarban, 78, British writer and diplomat, British Ambassador to Paraguay.

12

• Ekkirala Bharadwaja, 50, Indian spiritual advisor.
• Arnold Carter, 71, American MLB player (Cincinnati Reds). ^[31]
• Gerald Flood, 61, British actor of stage and television (Crane), heart attack.
• Bill Harper, 92, Scottish footballer (Hibernian, Scotland).
• Abbie Hoffman, 52, American political and social activist, co-founded the Youth International Party, suicide by overdose. ^[32]
• Willie McNaught, 66, Scottish international footballer (Raith Rovers, Scotland).
• Antonio Porta, 53, Italian author and poet.
• Sugar Ray Robinson, 67, American professional boxer, welterweight and middleweight world champion, heart disease. ^[33]
• Georges Sébastian, 85, Hungarian-born French conductor.
• Vasile Teodosiu, 72, Romanian Olympic long-distance runner (1952). ^[34]
• Tilda Thamar, 67, Argentinian actress, car accident.

13

• Paul II Cheikho, 82, Iraqi patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church.
• António Ferreira Gomes, 83, Portuguese Roman Catholic bishop.
• Erich Herrmann, 74, German Olympic handball player (1936). ^[35]
• Terry Miller, 46, American businessman and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Alaska, bone cancer.
• Tor Nilsson, 70, Swedish Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler (1948). ^[36]
• Bill Putnam, 69, American audio engineer, songwriter and producer.
• Gilbert Scodeller, 57, French cyclist.

14

• Werner von Clemm, 91, German-born American banker.
• Chiang Hsiao-wen, 53, eldest son of Chiang Ching-kuo, throat cancer. ^[37]
• Laurence Meynell, 89, English author.
• Lance Pierre, 67, West Indian cricketer. ^[38]
• Carr Smith, 88, American MLB player (Washington Senators). ^[39]

15

• Ray Agee, 68, American blues and R&B singer and songwriter.
• William Attwood, 69, American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Guinea and Kenya, congestive heart failure. ^[40]
• Edward M. Brecher, 77, American science writer and author ( Licit and Illicit Drugs ). ^[41]
• Brady Cowell, 89, American college sports player and coach. ^[42]
• David Cuthbertson, 88, Scottish physician and biochemist, director of the Rowett Research Institute.
• Federico Gay, 92, Italian Olympic cyclist (1920). ^[43]
• Hu Yaobang, 73, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, heart attack. ^[44]
• Bernard-Marie Koltès, 41, French playwright and theatre director, AIDS.
• Freda Lingstrom, 95, British BBC Television producer ( Flower Pot Men , Andy Pandy ).
• Alita Román, 76, Argentine film actress (Mujeres que trabajan, Concierto de almas).
• Connie Simmons, 64, American NBA basketballer (New York Knicks).
• Frances Steloff, 101, American founder of the Gotham Book Mart. ^[45]
• Charles Vanel, 96, French actor and director ( The Wages of Fear , The Woman Who Dared). ^[46]
• Philip de Zulueta, 64, British diplomat, Private Secretary for Foreign Affairs to the Prime Minister.

16

• T. Coleman Andrews Jr., 64, American politician, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, heart attack. ^[47]
• Tawfiq Yusuf 'Awwad, 77, Lebanese writer (Tawahin Beirut) and diplomat, Lebanese ambassador to five countries, rocket attack.
• Hugh Barton, 78, British Hong Kong businessman, chairman and managing director of Jardine Matheson.
• Brynjólfur Bjarnason, 90, Icelandic politician, chairman of the Communist Party of Iceland.
• Jocko Conlan, 89, American baseball umpire (National League).
• John Dighton, 79, British playwright and screenwriter (The Happiest Days of Your Life, The Man in the White Suit , Roman Holiday ).
• Harald Edelstam, 76, Swedish diplomat, Ambassador to Algeria, cancer.
• Kaoru Ishikawa, 73, Japanese engineer and professor (Ishikawa diagram).
• John Holmes Jenkins, 48–49, American historian and champion poker player, shot.
• Bob Jones, 59, American white supremacist political activist (Ku Klux Klan).
• Miles Lawrence, 48, English cricketer.
• Dominic Olejniczak, 80, American politician (mayor of Green Bay, Wisconsin) and football executive (Green Bay Packers), stroke. ^[48]
• Saroj Pathak, 59, Indian novelist.
• Thierry Paulin, 25, French serial killer, AIDS.
• Sam Wheeler, 65, American Negro Leagues baseball player and Harlem Globetrotter. ^[49]
• Hakkı Yeten, 78, Turkish footballer and club president (Beşiktaş, Turkey).

17

• Inji Aflatoun, 65, Egyptian painter and women's activist.
• Psyche Cattell, 95, American psychologist.
• Ken Gee, 72, English international rugby league footballer (Wigan, England).
• Ivica Jelić, 71, Yugoslavian Olympic gymnast (1948, 1952). ^[50]
• Charles Lampkin, 76, American actor ( Roots: The Next Generations ) and musician.
• Cecil Leeson, 86, American saxophonist. ^[51]
• Candan Tarhan, 46, Turkish football manager. ^[52]
• Villano II, 39, Mexican Luchador enmascarado (masked professional wrestler), suicide.

18

• Adil Atan, 60, Turkish Olympic wrestler (1952, 1956). ^[53]
• Hilde Benjamin, 87, East German judge and Minister of Justice.
• Ruth VanSickle Ford, 91, American painter, owner of the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts.
• William Hector Payne, 74, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1958-1962). ^[54]
• Julia Smith, 84, American composer and pianist.

19

• Ferdinand aus der Fünten, 79, Nazi German SS-Hauptsturmführer, head of the Amsterdam Central Office for Jewish Emigration.
• Harry Marker, 78, American NFL player (Pittsburgh Pirates). ^[55]
• Dame Daphne du Maurier, 81, English novelist and playwright ( Rebecca , The Birds, My Cousin Rachel ), heart failure. ^[56]
• George Paxton, 75, American saxophonist and big band leader (Coed Records), apparent suicide.
• Gale Staley, 89, American MLB player (Chicago Cubs). ^[57]
• James Edgar Walker, 77, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1962-1974). ^[58]
• George Whitmore, 43, American playwright, novelist and poet, AIDS. ^[59]

20

• Harold Barlow, 89, British engineer (Royal Medal).
• Doru Davidovici, 43, Romanian aviator and writer, training crash.
• Edward DeSaulnier, 68, American politician and judge, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, suicide.
• Kenneth Harrison, 50, American serial killer, suicide.
• Uichiro Hatta, 85, Japanese footballer. ^[60]
• Bob McGann, 83, Australian rules footballer. ^[61]
• Maurice Nyagumbo, 64, Zimbabwean politician, suicide.
• Martin Ragaway, 66, American comedy writer.
• Lou Riley, 79, Australian rules footballer. ^[62]
• Lydia Sherwood, 82, British film and stage actress.

21

• Princess Deokhye of Korea, 76, last princess of the Korean royal family.
• Lou Gregory, 86, American Olympic long-distance runner (1932). ^[63]
• James Kirkwood Jr., 64, American playwright, author and actor ( A Chorus Line , P.S. Your Cat Is Dead ), AIDS. ^[64]
• Paul Mitchell, 53, Scottish-American co-founder of John Paul Mitchell Systems, pancreatic cancer.
• James N. Rowe, 51, American officer in the U.S. Army, assassinated.

22

• Jan Baars, 85, Dutch fascist.
• Paul Beard, 87, English violinist (London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra).
• Vi Farrell, 75, English-born New Zealand cricketer.
• Kenny McBain, 42, Scottish TV director and producer (Inspector Morse, Grange Hill ).
• Siegfried Ruff, 82, Nazi German physician, acquitted of war crimes.
• Emilio Segrè, 84, Italian-American physicist, discovered technetium and astatine, Nobel laureate in Physics, heart attack.
• Dmitry Selivanov, 25, Soviet rock singer (Grazhdanskaya Oborona), suicide.
• Tommy Thompson, 72, American NFL and CFL footballer (Philadelphia Eagles), brain cancer.
• Ted Trim, 81, Australian rules footballer. ^[65]
• Tony Tursi, 88, Italian-American mobster in Puerto Rico.

23

• K. Suryanarayana Adiga, 74, Indian lawyer and politician, member of Mysore Legislative Council, chairman of Karnataka Bank.
• Norm Baker, 66, Canadian professional basketball and lacrosse player.
• Marc Daniels, 77, American television director ( I Love Lucy , Star Trek), congestive heart failure. ^[66]
• Hamani Diori, 72, Nigerien politician, president of Republic of Niger. ^[67]
• Hu Die, 81, Chinese actress ( The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple ), stroke.
• Imre Hódos, 61, Hungarian Olympic wrestler (1952, 1956, 1960). ^[68]
• Whitfield Jack, 82, American military colonel and attorney.
• Stefan Korboński, 88, Polish-American politician, lawyer and journalist, aneurysm.
• Howie Krist, 73, American MLB player (St. Louis Cardinals). ^[69]
• Cecil Lowell, 75, South African cricketer.
• Bojan Postružnik, 36, Yugoslavian Olympic archer (1976). ^[70]
• Eduard Schöll, 84, Austrian Olympic wrestler (1936). ^[71]
• Marcel Schumann, 88, Luxembourgian Olympic footballer (1924). ^[72]
• Harry Bolton Seed, 66, British-American geotechnical earthquake engineer, cancer. ^[73]
• Rupert Worker, 93, New Zealand cricketer.

24

• Franz Binder, 77, Austrian international footballer and coach (Rapid Wien, Austria).
• Roger Dewasch, 68, French Olympic water polo player (1948). ^[74]
• Clyde Geronimi, 87, American animation director (Walt Disney Productions). ^[75]
• Fred Godfrey, 78, Australian rules footballer. ^[76]
• Roland Harper, 82, British Olympic hurdler (1932). ^[77]
• Li Jingquan, 79, Chinese politician and governor of Sichuan.
• Henry G. Parks Jr., 72, American businessman, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Lee Roberts, 75, American actor.
• Edgar Sanabria, 77, Venezuelan diplomat and politician, interim President of Venezuela, stroke.
• Santana, 53, Portuguese international footballer (Benfica, Portugal)).
• Johnny Stark, 66, French impresario, heart attack.
• Birger Stenman, 79, Finnish Olympic gymnast (1928). ^[78]

25

• Dee Boeckmann, 82, American Olympic middle-distance runner (1928). ^[79]
• Kenneth Cockrel Sr., 50, American politician, member of the Detroit Common Council, heart attack.
• George Coulouris, 85, English film and stage actor ( Citizen Kane ). ^[80]
• Sam Fletcher, 55, American singer (I Believe in You).
• Yap Thiam Hien, 75, Indonesian human rights lawyer, internal bleeding.
• Norma Klein, 50, American young adults' book author. ^[81]
• Alan Robertson, 69, English population geneticist.
• Caspar Schrøder, 83, Danish Olympic fencer (1936). ^[82]
• John Barton Wolgamot, 86, American poet.

26

• Lucille Ball, 77, American actress and comedienne ( I Love Lucy ), ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. ^[83]
• Robert Gysae, 78, Nazi German U-boat commander.
• Robert S. Kennemore, 68, American officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, Medal of Honor recipient.
• Carl Monroe, 29, American NFL footballer (San Francisco 49ers), accidental overdose.

27

• Alphonse Bouton, 81, French Olympic rower (1936). ^[84]
• Howard Brookner, 34, American film director (Burroughs, Bloodhounds of Broadway), AIDS. ^[85]
• Leopold Buczkowski, 83, Polish writer.
• Stephen Sanders Chandler Jr., 89, American district judge (United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma). ^[86]
• Marcel J. E. Golay, 86, Swiss-born American mathematician and physicist (Golay Detector, Golay cell). ^[87]
• Harold Gurden, 85, British politician, Member of Parliament.
• Carl Lundsteen, 76, Danish footballer. ^[88]
• Konosuke Matsushita, 94, Japanese founder of Panasonic, pneumonia. ^[89]
• Frank O'Rourke, 72, American writer (A Mule for the Marquesa), suicide.
• T. Amrutha Rao, 68, Indian politician, member of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly.
• Paavo Salminen, 77, Finnish Olympic footballer (1936). ^[90]
• William Arthur Smith, 71, American artist.

28

• Stanley Roy Badmin, 83, English painter and etcher.
• Jack Cummings, 84, American film producer and director. ^[91]
• Géza von Cziffra, 88, Hungarian and Austrian film director and screenwriter (Kiss Me Kate, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers ).
• Pinchoo Kapoor, 61–62, Indian actor (Don, Roti, Avtaar ).
• Esa Pakarinen, 78, Finnish actor, singer and comedian ( Pekka and Pätkä ), cancer.
• Raúl Sendic, 63, Uruguayan lawyer and trade unionist, founder of the Tupamaros National Liberation Movement, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Roy Lee Williams, 74, American labor leader, president of the Teamsters, cardiac disease and emphysema.

29

• Donald Deskey, 94, American industrial designer. ^[92]
• Marlene Elejarde, 37, Cuban Olympic sprinter (1968, 1972). ^[93]
• Ehsan Tabari, 72, Iranian philosopher and poet, kidney and heart failure.
• Vic Wilcox, 76, New Zealand farmer and trade unionist, secretary-general of the Communist Party of New Zealand, cancer.

30

• Yi Bangja, 87, wife of Crown Prince Euimin, last Crown Prince of the Korean Empire, cancer.
• Birge Clark, 96, American architect (Lou Henry Hoover House, Norris House).
• Nelson Dalzell, 68, New Zealand rugby union player (Canterbury, All Blacks).
• Edwin F. Kalmus, 95, Austrian-American music publisher.
• Gottfried Köthe, 83, Austrian mathematician (Köthe conjecture, topological vector spaces).
• Sergio Leone, 60, Italian film director and producer ( Dollars Trilogy ), heart attack. ^[94]
• Pierre Lewden, 88, French Olympic high jumper (1920, 1924, 1928). ^[95]
• Stumpy Thomason, 83, American NFL footballer (Brooklyn Dodgers).
• Taiji Tonoyama, 73, Japanese actor.
• Guy Williams, 65, American actor (Zorro, Lost in Space ), brain aneurysm.

Unknown date

• Hassan Djamous, Chadian military commander, Commander-in-Chief of the Chadian National Army.
• Josef Papp, appr. 55, American engineer, likely hoaxer.
• Doug Smith, 71, English jockey and trainer, suicide.
• Harry White, 72–73, Irish republican paramilitary.

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63. "Olympedia – Lou Gregory". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
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65. "Australian Football - Ted Trim - Player Bio". australianfootball.com. Retrieved October 7, 2025.
66. "Marc Daniels, 77, Dies; Directed 'I Love Lucy'" . The New York Times . April 29, 1989. p. 1 10. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
67. "Hamani Diori, 72, the Founder Of an Independent Niger, Is Dead" . The New York Times . April 25, 1989. p. B 10. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
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71. "Olympedia – Eduard Schöll". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved October 7, 2025.
72. "Olympedia – Marcel Schumann". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved October 7, 2025.
73. "H. Bolton Seed, 66, Expert on Earthquakes" . The New York Times . April 26, 1989. p. B 5. Retrieved July 4, 2023.
74. "Olympedia – Roger Dewasch". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
75. "Clyde Geronimi, 87, An Animator at Disney" . The New York Times . April 30, 1989. p. 1 40. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
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77. "Olympedia – Roly Harper". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
78. "Olympedia – Birger Stenman". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved October 7, 2025.
79. "Olympedia – Dee Boeckmann". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
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81. "Norma Klein, 50, a Young-Adult Novelist" . The New York Times . April 27, 1989. p. B 16. Retrieved May 26, 2024.
82. "Olympedia – Caspar Schrøder". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved October 7, 2025.
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84. "Olympedia – Alphonse Bouton". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
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86. "Chandler, Stephen Sanders, Jr. | Federal Judicial Center". www.fjc.gov. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
87. "Dr. Marcel Golay, 86; Invented Science Tools" . The New York Times . April 30, 1989. p. 1 40. Retrieved May 26, 2024.
88. "Carl Lundsteen". worldfootball.net. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
89. Steve Lohr (April 27, 1989). "Konosuke Matsushita, Industrialist, Is Dead at 94" . The New York Times . p. B 16. Retrieved July 4, 2023.
90. "Olympedia – Paavo Salminen". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved October 7, 2025.
91. "Jack Cummings, 84, a Producer at M-G-M" . The New York Times . April 30, 1989. p. 1 40. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
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93. "Olympedia – Marlene Elejalde". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
94. Peter B. Flint (May 1, 1989). "Sergio Leone, 67, Italian Director Who Revitalized Westerns, Dies" . The New York Times . p. B 8. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
95. "Olympedia – Pierre Lewden". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved October 6, 2025.

External links

• List of April 1989 deaths at IMDb