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The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.

February 1989

1

• Hubert Ausböck, 81, German Olympic boxer (1928). ^[1]
• Everett Bacon, 98, American college football player (Wesleyan Cardinals). ^[2]
• Lillian Boyer, 88, American wing walker. ^[3]
• James Drake, 81, British civil engineer, pioneer of the national motorway network. ^[4]
• Blaze Foley, 39, American country music singer-songwriter, poet and artist, shot. ^[5]
• Elaine de Kooning, 70, American artist. ^[6]
• Grace Hayes, 93, American actress, singer, vaudeville entertainer and nightclub owner. ^[7]
• J.C. Hoel, 84, American motorcycle racer, and founder of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. ^[8]
• Kenneth Morris, 71, American composer of gospel music. ^[9]
• Erik Persson, 79, Swedish international footballer and Olympian (1936). ^[10]
• John Tootoosis, 89, Canadian First Nations leader.

2

• Yuri Bogatyryov, 41, Soviet actor ( At Home Among Strangers ), medication clash related to heart attack.
• Marie Poland Fish, 88, American oceanographer and marine biologist. ^[11]
• Étienne Guibel, 83, French Olympic field hockey player (1936). ^[12]
• Vladimír Lulek, 35, Czech family murderer, executed.
• Ondrej Nepela, 38, Czechoslovakian figure skater and Olympic gold medalist (1964, 1968, 1972), lymph node cancer. ^[13]
• Arnold Nordmeyer, 87, New Zealand politician, Leader of the Opposition. ^[14]
• Nuno Oliveira, 63, Portuguese equestrian, horse trainer and dressage instructor.
• Walter M. Scott, 82, American set decorator (The Sound of Music, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ).
• Marie Syrkin, 89, American writer and Zionist activist. ^[15]

3

• Dick Bass, 82, American MLB player (Washington Senators). ^[16]
• John Cassavetes, 59, Greek-American actor ( Johnny Staccato , The Dirty Dozen ), film director, and screenwriter, he was a pioneer of modern American independent cinema as both a writer and a director, often self-financing, producing, and distributing his own films, ^[17] , cirrhosis of the liver. ^[18]
• Glenna Collett-Vare, 85, American amateur golfer, inducted into World Golf Hall of Fame. ^[19]
• John Davis, 77, British RAF officer. ^[20]
• Betty Farrington, 90, American actress.
• Joan Grant, 81, English writer of historical novels ( Winged Pharaoh ).
• Harry Gray, 72, Australian rules footballer. ^[21]
• Frank Hursley, 86, half of American husband-and-wife television screenwriting duo Frank and Doris Hursley ( General Hospital ).
• Nina Kirsanova, 91, Russian-born Yugoslavian ballet dancer.
• Ebbe Langberg, 55, Danish actor and film director.
• John McCauley, 89, Australian Air Force senior commander, Chief of Air Force, stroke. ^[22]
• Louis H. Narcisse, 67, American religious leader, founder of Mt. Zion Spiritual Church, heart attack.
• Lionel Newman, 73, American conductor, pianist and composer (Academy Award for Best Original Score for Hello, Dolly!), cardiac arrest. ^[23]
• Kim Sung-jun, 35, South Korean boxer (WBC light flyweight champion), suicide by jumping.

4

• Kenneth C. "Jethro" Burns, 68, American mandolinist, half of comedy duo Homer and Jethro, prostate cancer. ^[24]
• Medford Bryan Evans, 81, college professor and Conservative political activist.
• Thorkild Hansen, 62, Danish novelist ( Coast of Slaves , Ships of Slaves , Islands of Slaves ).
• Trevor Lucas, 45, Australian folk singer (Fotheringay), heart attack. ^[25]
• Grandizo Munis, 76, Spanish Trotskyist politician. ^[26]
• Ham Seok-heon, 87, Korean Quaker. ^[27]
• Ferris Webster, 76, American film editor (The Manchurian Candidate, The Great Escape).

5

• André Cheuva, 80, French international footballer and manager (Lille OSC). ^[28]
• Roy Chicago, Nigerian musician and band leader.
• Percy Hoskins, 84, British crime reporter (Daily Express).
• Emrys James, 60, Welsh Shakespearean actor. ^[29]
• Rajinder Kaur, 57, Indian journalist and politician, shot by terrorists.
• Joe Morrison, 51, American NFL footballer and coach (New York Giants), congestive heart failure. ^[30]
• Killer Joe Piro, 67, American dance instructor, kidney disease. ^[31]
• Joe Raposo, 51, American composer, singer and pianist (Sesame Street theme, Bein' Green ), non-Hodgkin lymphoma. ^[32]
• Hal Wilder, 95, American NFL player (St. Louis All-Stars). ^[33]

6

• Suri Bhagavantam, 79, Indian scientist, vice chancellor of Osmania University, director of Indian Institute of Science.
• Sushil Bose, 77, Indian cricketer.
• Joseph L. Carrigg, 87, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1951-1959). ^[34]
• André Cayatte, 80, French filmmaker ( Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu ). ^[35]
• Ron Field, 55, American choreographer and dancer (Cabaret), brain lesions. ^[36]
• Chris Gueffroy, 20, East German, last to be killed by use of firearms at the Berlin Wall. ^[37]
• Netty Herawaty, 59, Indonesian actress ( Rodrigo de Villa ).
• Antoni Łaciak, 49, Polish Olympic ski jumper (1964). ^[38]
• Undine Smith Moore, 84, American composer and professor of music ( Scenes from the Life of a Martyr ), stroke. ^[39]
• Otto Schulmann, 86, German-born conductor and vocal teacher.
• King Tubby, 48, Jamaican sound engineer, shot. ^[40]
• Barbara W. Tuchman, 77, American historian and author ( The Guns of August , Stilwell and the American Experience in China), stroke. ^[41]

7

• Eric Jay, 81, British Anglican priest.
• Albert Branson Maris, 95, American judge. ^[42]
• Adolf Martignoni, 79, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player (1936). ^[43]
• James T. Patterson, 80, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1947-1959). ^[44]
• Philip Pratt, 64, American district judge (United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan). ^[45]
• Giuseppe Puca, 33, Italian criminal, boss of Nuova Camorra Organizzata, murdered after shootout.
• Sixto Rovina, 28, Netherlands Antilles international footballer, heart attack during game.
• Gilbert Simondon, 64, French philosopher.
• William Campbell Steere, 81, American botanist, expert on bryophytes, director of New York Botanical Garden. ^[46]
• Simon Virsaladze, 80, Georgian ballet, film and opera designer. ^[47]
• Prince Wilhelm Victor of Prussia, 69, German nobleman and diplomat.

8

• Matt Bross, 85, American NFL player (Green Bay Packers). ^[48]
• John Coward, 81, British Olympic ice hockey player (1936). ^[49]
• Cyril Luckham, 81, English film, television and theatre actor ( Doctor Who , Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em ).
• Begum Khurshid Mirza, 70, Pakistani television and film actress.
• Webster B. Todd, 89, American Chairman of New Jersey Republican State Committee, heart attack. ^[50]

9

• Ken Adachi, 59–60, Canadian writer and literary critic (Toronto Star). ^[51]
• Bill Dalley, 87, New Zealand rugby union player (Canterbury, All Blacks).
• Oliver C. Dawson, 78, American athlete (John Carroll Blue Streaks) and sports coach (South Carolina State Bulldogs). ^[52]
• Osamu Tezuka, 60, Japanese artist and animator ( Astro Boy , Kimba the White Lion ), stomach cancer. ^[53]

10

• Darnley Alexander, 69, Nigerian jurist, Chief Justice of Nigeria.
• Irving Brown, 77, American trade unionist (Presidential Medal of Freedom). ^[54]
• Agustín Ramos Calero, 69, decorated Puerto Rican soldier in the U.S. Army. ^[55]
• Cosmo Crawley, 84, English cricketer, rackets and real tennis player.
• Wayne Hays, 77, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1949-1976), heart attack. ^[56]
• Grady Higginbotham, 96, American sports player and coach.
• James Hunter III, 72, American circuit judge (United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit). ^[57]
• Panini Ilangakoon, 69, Sri Lankan politician, Member of Parliament.
• Dan Kelly, 52, Canadian-American sportscaster, lung cancer. ^[58]
• Emily Kimbrough, 89, American author and journalist ( Our Hearts Were Young and Gay ). ^[59]
• Herbert Ryman, 78, American artist and Disney Imagineer (Sleeping Beauty Castle), cancer. ^[60]
• Josef Schneeberger, 69, Austrian Olympic cross-country skier (1952 1956). ^[61]

11

• Charles L. Bolte, 93, United States Army general, vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army, stroke. ^[62]
• T. E. B. Clarke, 81, British screenwriter ( The Lavender Hill Mob ). ^[63]
• Leon Festinger, 69, American social psychologist (cognitive dissonance, social comparison theory), cancer. ^[64]
• Roland Gross, 80, American film editor and television editor (None but the Lonely Heart).
• George O'Hanlon, 76, American actor, comedian and writer ( The Jetsons ), stroke. ^[65]
• André Rolet, 87, French Olympic weightlifter (1924). ^[66]
• Cecil C. Steiner, 92, American dentist (Steiner method of analysis).
• Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan, 83, ruler of Abu Dhabi. ^[67]
• Katharine Lane Weems, 89, American sculptor (Dolphins of the Sea, Lotta Fountain).

12

• Thomas Bernhard, 58, Austrian novelist and playwright (Correction, Extinction), heart attack. ^[68]
• Eduard Braesecke, 83, German Olympic long-distance runner (1936). ^[69]
• Jorge Romero Brest, 83, Argentinian art critic.
• Attilio Dottesio, 79, Italian film actor and singer.
• Pat Finucane, 39, Irish lawyer, murdered. ^[70]
• Gordon Kramer, 67, Australian rules footballer. ^[71]
• Euel Moore, 80, American MLB player (Philadelphia Phillies, New York Giants). ^[72]
• Pandit Narendra Sharma, 75, Indian writer and poet (Satyam Shivam Sundaram theme).
• Bill Speer, 46, Canadian NHL ice hockey player (Boston Bruins), snowmobile accident. ^[73]

13

• Ernestine Barrier, 80, American stage, film and television actress ( Project Moonbase ).
• Hal Broda, 83, American NFL player (Cleveland Bulldogs). ^[74]
• Claude Dupuy, 87, French Roman Catholic archbishop.
• Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark, 79, member of the Greek Royal family.
• Thorbjørn Frydenlund, 96, Norwegian Olympic wrestler (1912). ^[75]
• Dud Harris, 85, American NFL player (Portsmouth Spartans). ^[76]
• Hip Linkchain, 52, American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter (Change My Blues, That Will Never Do), mesothelioma cancer. ^[77]
• Aubrey Martyn, 82, Australian rules footballer. ^[78]
• Aubrey Menen, 76, British author and theatre critic. ^[79]
• Richard Roud, 59, American writer on film, co-founder of the New York Film Festival. ^[80]
• Geoff Selby, 23, Australian rugby league footballer (Illawarra Steelers, St. George Dragons), car accident. ^[81]
• Dave Tarras, appr. 94, Ukrainian-American clarinetist and bandleader, pneumonia. ^[82]

14

• James Bond, 89, American ornithologist, curator of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia ( Birds of the West Indies ). ^[83]
• Vincent Crane, 45, English keyboardist (The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Atomic Rooster), suicide by drug overdose. ^[84]
• Krishnarao Dhulap, 68, leader of Peasants and Workers Party of India.
• Duncan Gregg, 78, American Olympic rower (1932). ^[85]
• Hilario, 83, Spanish footballer.
• Mike Riordan, 82, American NFL player (Staten Island Stapletons). ^[86]
• Vincent Žuk-Hryškievič, 86, Belarusian politician, president of the government-in-exile of the Belarusian Democratic Republic.

15

• Hüseyin Akbaş, 56, Turkish wrestler and dual Olympic medalist (1956, 1960, 1964). ^[87]
• Jorge de Cárdenas, 55, Cuban Olympic sailor (1952, 1956, 1960). ^[88]
• Sita Devi, 71, Indian Princess Consort of Vuyyur, the "Indian Wallis Simpson".
• Daniel Fox, 61, American polymer chemist (LEXAN). ^[89]
• Robert Kerns, 55, American baritone (Vienna State Opera).
• Lee E. McMahon, 57, American computer scientist (sed stream editor).
• Sjafruddin Prawiranegara, 77, Indonesian statesman and economist, Prime Minister of Indonesia, heart attack. ^[90]
• Antonio Garzoni Provenzani, 82, Italian Olympic rower (1932). ^[91]
• Benito Totti, 74, Italian Olympic boxer (1936). ^[92]
• Aleksandr Travin, 51, Soviet Russian Olympic basketball player (1964). ^[93]
• Sabo Bakin Zuwo, 54, Nigerian politician, Governor of Kano State.

16

• Andy Black, 72, Scottish international footballer (Manchester City, Scotland). ^[94]
• Ida Ehre, 88, Austrian-German actor, theatre director and manager, heart attack. ^[95]
• Arne Jørgensen, 91, Danish Olympic gymnast (1920). ^[96]
• David Kerr, 65, Australian cricketer.
• Mirza Abdul Halim, 23, Singaporean police constable, murdered. ^[97]
• Paco Lagerstrom, 74, Swedish-American applied mathematician and aeronautical engineer (Caltech). ^[98]
• Paweł Świętek, 64, Polish Olympic gymnast (1952). ^[99]

17

• Rudolf Brill, 89, German chemist. ^[100]
• Francesco Buccitelli, 66, Italian artist, mayor of Pacentro.
• Per Dahl, 72, Norwegian Olympic ice hockey player (1952). ^[101]
• Ian Fraser, 78, British judge, member of the House of Lords, car accident. ^[102]
• R. B. Frost, 81, American college sports coach.
• Lefty Gomez, 80, American Major League baseball player (New York Yankees), congestive heart failure. ^[103]
• Fernando Irayzoz, 64, Spanish Olympic modern pentathlete (1960). ^[104]
• Guy Laroche, 67, French fashion designer. ^[105]
• Marguerite Roberts, 83, American screenwriter, blacklisted for not cooperating with House Un-American Activities Committee, arteriosclerosis. ^[106]
• Hanne Sobek, 88, German international footballer (Hertha BSC, Germany). ^[107]
• Si Titus, 70, American NFL player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Pittsburgh Steelers). ^[108]
• Jan Vreede, 89, Dutch Olympic sailor (1924). ^[109]

18

• John Bailey, 76, British screen and TV actor (The Forsyte Saga). ^[110]
• Mildred Burke, 73, American professional wrestler, women's world champion, stroke. ^[111]
• Dixie Deans, 75, Royal Air Force sergeant, Second World War bomber pilot. ^[112]
• Dina Halpern, 79, Polish-born American actress. ^[113]
• Kathleen Hite, 71, American writer for radio and television ( Gunsmoke , The Waltons ). ^[114]

19

• Edward Beetham, 74, British colonial official, Resident Commissioner in Swaziland, Governor of Trinidad and Tobago.
• Eric F. Goldman, 72, American historian, presidential advisor (The Open Mind). ^[115]
• Sigurd Marius Johansen, 82, Norwegian politician.
• Edmund Knapp, 71, New Zealand cricketer.
• Alec Merrison, 64, British physicist, vice-chancellor of University of Bristol, director of Lloyds Bank. ^[116]
• Sándor Pázmándy, 76, Hungarian footballer. ^[117]
• Jack de Sequeira, 73, Indian politician, Leader of the Opposition of the Goa, Daman and Diu Legislative Assembly.
• Franjo Škrinjar, 68, Yugoslavian Olympic long-distance runner (1960). ^[118]
• Rosa Slade Gragg, 84, American activist and politician. ^[119]

20

• Stuart Black, 81, New Zealand Olympic sprinter (1932). ^[120]
• Julio César Chaves, 81, Paraguayan historian.
• Percy Chen, 88, Trinidad-born Chinese lawyer, founding member of Hong Kong Bar Association. ^[121]
• Erika Köth, 63, German operatic soprano. ^[122]
• Anthony Leeds, 64, American anthropologist, heart attack. ^[123]
• Betty Mars, 44, French singer and actress, Eurovision song contestant, suicide by jumping.
• Aleksandr Medvedkin, 88, Soviet film director (Happiness).
• Manuel Rosas, 76, Mexican international footballer (Atlante F.C., Mexico). ^[124]
• Clarke Scholtz, 77, South African Olympic middle-distance runner (1936). ^[125]
• Adolfo Yedro, 66, Argentine Olympic rower (1948). ^[126]

21

• Valentín Beperet, 62, Chilean footballer. ^[127]
• Harry Clarke, 83, Australian rules footballer.
• Paul Davis, 63, American NFL player (Pittsburgh Steelers). ^[128]
• Robert Dorning, 75, English musician, ballet dancer and actor, diabetes.
• Sándor Márai, 88, Hungarian writer, poet and journalist (Embers). ^[129]
• Chet Ross, 71, American MLB player (Boston Bees/Braves). ^[130]
• Otar Taktakishvili, 64, Georgian composer and conductor (Sonata for Flute and Piano, Mindia ). ^[131]
• Alex Thépot, 82, French international footballer and Olympian (Red Star FC, France). ^[132]
• Moshe Unna, 86, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (1949-1969).

22

• Roxanne Arlen, 58, American film and stage actress.
• Harry Brand, 93, American press agent, credited with the fame of Shirley Temple, Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe, heart attack. ^[133]
• Raymond Gower, 72, British politician, member of the House of Commons, heart attack. ^[134]
• Abel Wolman, 96, American engineer, pioneer in sanitary engineering. ^[135]
• Joan Woodbury, 73, American actress ( The Eagle's Brood , Brenda Starr, Reporter). ^[136]

23

• David Mowbray Balme, 76, British professor, Principal of the University College of the Gold Coast. ^[137]
• Hans Hellmut Kirst, 74, German novelist (Die Nacht der Generale). ^[138]
• Ramito, 73, Puerto Rican composer (Qué Bonita Bandera), suicide by gunshot.
• Tsepon W. D. Shakabpa, 82, Tibetan nobleman and statesman, Finance Minister of Tibet, stomach cancer. ^[139]
• Roy Tyner, 55, American NASCAR Grand National driver, gunshot. ^[140]

24

• Sparky Adams, 94, American Major League baseball player (Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals). ^[141]
• Paul M. Bator, 59, Hungarian-born American legal scholar and Supreme Court advocate, Deputy Solicitor General of the United States. ^[142]
• Teddy Brannon, 72, American jazz and blues pianist.
• Norris Cotton, 88, American politician, US representative (1947-1954) and senator (1954-1974, 1975). ^[143]
• Joe Harvey, 70, English footballer and manager (Newcastle United, Bradford City). ^[144]
• Ben Kish, 71, American NFL player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Steagles, Philadelphia Eagles). ^[145]
• Margo Lion, 89, Ottoman-French singer and actress ( Threepenny Opera ).
• Paulaseer, 68, Indian preacher, 'faith healer'.
• Mallica Reynolds, 78, Jamaican artist and religious leader (Shining the Spring). ^[146]
• William Thayer Tutt, 76, American ice hockey and figure skating executive. ^[147]

25

• Paula Banholzer, 87, German love interest of Bertolt Brecht.
• Angna Enters, 91, American dancer, mime, painter and writer (Lost Angel, Tenth Avenue Angel ). ^[148]
• Robert Foulk, 80, American television and film actor (Lassie).
• Wilhelm Hölter, 84, German painter. ^[149]
• Bob Ivory, 65, American NFL player (Detroit Lions). ^[150]

26

• Roy Eldridge, 78, American jazz trumpeter. ^[151]
• Joseph Fenton, appr. 46, Northern Ireland estate agent, killed by Provisional Irish Republican Army (body found on this date). ^[152]
• Reunald Jones, 78, American jazz trumpeter. ^[153]
• Mouloud Mammeri, 71, Algerian writer, anthropologist and linguist, car accident. ^[154]
• Éloi Meulenberg, 76, Belgian cyclist. ^[155]
• Clayton Robson, 87, Indian-born English first-class cricketer. ^[156]

27

• Paul Oswald Ahnert, 91, German astronomer (Kalender für Sternfreunde). ^[157]
• Shiba P. Chatterjee, 86, Indian Professor of Geography.
• Mauricio Garcés, 62, Mexican actor and comedian ( Fray Don Juan , Modisto de señoras ). ^[158]
• Brian Hall, 59, English cricketer.
• Kim Hyun-chul, 87, Korean independence activist and politician, Prime Minister of South Korea.
• Göran Larsson, 56, Swedish Olympic swimmer (1952). ^[159]
• Konrad Lorenz, 85, Austrian zoologist and author ( Man Meets Dog ), Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Nazi supporter. ^[160]
• Sayuti Melik, 80, Indonesian political agitant (Proclamation of Indonesian Independence).
• Gilberto Molina, 52, Colombian emerald magnate and drug trafficker (Medellín cartel), murdered. ^[161]
• Skippy Scheib, 85, American NFL player (Brooklyn Dodgers). ^[162]
• Joe Silver, 66, American stage, television, film and radio actor, heart attack. ^[163]

28

• Karl Anderson, 88, American Olympic hurdler (1924). ^[164]
• Richard Armour, 82, American poet and author. ^[165]
• Bernard Beryl Brodie, 81, English-born American biochemical and neurochemical pharmacology scientist. ^[166]
• Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira, 78, Brazilian lexicographer, translator and writer (Aurélio Dictionary). ^[167]
• Hermann Burger, 46, Swiss poet and novelist (Die Wasserfallfinsternis von Badgastein), suicide. ^[168]
• Josef Epp, 68, Austrian Olympic footballer (1948). ^[169]
• Everett E. Hatcher, 46, American Special Agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration, shot during undercover operation. ^[170]
• Douglas Kendrew, 79, British army general and rugby union player (Leicester, England), Governor of Western Australia. ^[171]
• Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, 100, Indian yoga teacher.
• Alton C. Parker, 81, Canadian police officer, first black Canadian detective. ^[172]
• Pak Se-yong, 86, North Korean poet and politician ( Aegukka – North Korean national anthem).

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External links

• List of February 1989 deaths at IMDb