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The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.

June 1989

1

• Dharmasena Attygalle, 64, Sri Lankan politician.
• Emery Hawkins, 77, American animator.
• Aurelio Lampredi, 71, Italian automobile and aircraft engine designer.
• Alexis Lichine, 75, Russian wine writer and entrepreneur. ^[1]
• Edward J. McShane, 85, American mathematician, congestive heart failure.
• Charles Vanden Wouwer, 72, English-Belgian international footballer.

2

• Guido Agosti, 87, Italian pianist and piano teacher.
• Smith Barrier, 72, American sports journalist.
• Ted à Beckett, 81, Australian test cricketer.
• Dick Mayer, 64, American professional golfer.
• Frederic Prokosch, 83, American writer. ^[2]
• Takeo Watanabe, 56, Japanese musician and composer.

3

• Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, 86 or 89, Iranian religious leader, Supreme Leader of Iran, heart attack.
• Frank Laming, 80, Scottish Anglican priest.
• Wynne Samuel, 77, Welsh politician.

4

• Dik Browne, 71, American cartoonist, cancer. ^{[3] [4]}
• Cecil Collins, 81, English painter and printmaker.
• Vernon Cracknell, 77, New Zealand politician.
• Franca Helg, 69, Italian designer and architect.

5

• Baby Huwae, 49, Dutch-Indonesian actress, model and singer.
• André Michel, 81, French film director and screenwriter.
• Maurice Philippe, 57, British aircraft and Formula One car designer.

6

• Richard P. Graves, 82, American director of the League of California Cities.
• Richard Kahn, Baron Kahn, 83, British economist.
• Michael O'Farrell, 40, American vice-president of Oakland Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, murdered.
• Ernest John Primeau, 79, American Roman Catholic bishop.
• Laxman Singh, 81, Indian last ruling Maharawal (Maharaja) of the state of Dungarpur.

7

• Donn Beach, 82, American adventurer, businessman and World War II veteran, liver cancer. ^[5]
• Jorge Córdova, 76, Chilean international footballer.
• Jim Cristy, 76, American swimmer and Olympic medalist, financial manager for the Updike Company.
• William McLean Hamilton, 70, Canadian politician.
• Chico Landi, 81, Brazilian Formula One racing driver.
• Nara Leão, 47, Brazilian singer, brain tumour. ^[6]
• Paulo Leminski, 74, Brazilian writer, poet and journalist, liver cirrhosis.
• George Roughton, 79, English footballer.
• Jane Weiller, 77, American golfer.

8

• Bibb Falk, 90, American Major League baseballer. ^[7]
• Albert Spaggiari, 56, French criminal. ^[8]
• Emil Verban, 73, American Major League baseballer. ^[9]

9

• George Beadle, 85, American geneticist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine. ^[10]
• Rashid Behbudov, 73, Azerbaijani singer and actor. ^[11]
• Norman Brearley, 98, Australian commercial and military pilot, pioneer of Australian airline industry.
• James Horstead, 91, Anglican bishop of Sierra Leone and Archbishop of West Africa.
• Vladimir Kasatonov, 78, Soviet military leader and fleet admiral.
• Huang Yan, 76, Chinese politician.
• José López Rega, 72, Argentine politician, Minister of Social Welfare, diabetes. ^{[12] [13]}
• Wolfdietrich Schnurre, 68, German writer, heart failure.
• Piotr Vasiliev, 80, Soviet realist painter.

10

• James Greenway, 86, American ornithologist.
• Martin Kottler, 79, American NFL footballer.
• Juan Bustillo Oro, 85, Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer.
• Richard Quine, 68, American actor, director and singer, suicide by shooting. ^[14]
• Suleyman Rustam, 83, Soviet poet, playwright and translator.
• Joe Stripp, 86, American Major League baseballer.

11

• Ronald Eric Bishop, 86, British engineer, chief designer of the de Havilland Mosquito. ^[15]
• Jack McMahon, 60, American NBA basketballer and coach.

12

• Eduardo Dualde, 55, Spanish hockey player and Olympic medalist.
• Nilufer Hanımsultan, 73, Ottoman princess.
• Lou Monte, 72, Italian-American singer.

13

• Fran Allison, 81, American television and radio personality, myelodysplasia. ^[16]
• William Grasso, Italian-American mobster, murdered.
• Ray Sherry, 64, Australian politician, member of the Australian Parliament.
• Howard Simons, 60, American editor of Washington Post at time of the Watergate scandal, pancreatic cancer. ^[17]

14

• Dame Zara Bate, 80, Australian fashion entrepreneur, wife of Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt.
• Pete de Freitas, 27, English musician and producer, motorcycle accident.
• Wei Guoqing, 75, Chinese government official, military officer and political commissar.
• Heber Austin Ladner, 86, American politician, Secretary of State of Mississippi, heart disease.
• Joseph Malula, 71, Congolese archbishop and cardinal. ^[18]
• Yitzchok Yaakov Weiss, 87, Israeli rabbi, heart attack.

15

• Maurice Bellemare, 77, Canadian politician, diabetes.
• Roberto Camardiel, 71, Spanish theatre director and actor, bone disease.
• Victor French, 54, American actor and director, lung cancer. ^[19]
• Judy Johnson, 89, American Negro League baseballer. ^[20]
• Ray McAnally, 63, Irish actor, heart attack. ^[21]
• Luis Ricceri, 88, Italian Roman Catholic priest.

16

• Helga Haase, 55, East German speed skater and Olympic gold medalist.
• Celia Lynch, 81, Irish politician.
• Antonio Román, 77, Spanish film director, screenwriter and film producer.
• John Westbrook, 66, English actor.

17

• S. David Griggs, 49, United States Navy officer and NASA astronaut.
• John Matuszak, 38, American football player and actor, accidental overdose. ^[22]
• Pat Parker, 45, American poet and activist, breast cancer.

18

• Ennio Balbo, 67, Italian film, television and voice actor.
• Bobby Cross, 57, American NFL footballer.
• George C. Pimentel, 67, American chemist and researcher, intestinal cancer. ^[23]
• I. F. Stone, 81, American investigative journalist, writer and author, heart attack. ^[24]

19

• Betti Alver, 82, Estonian poet.
• Yevgeny Kabanov, 70, Soviet Naval Aviation major general.
• Andrey Prokofyev, 30, Soviet sprinter and Olympic gold medalist, suicide.

20

• Dona Drake, 74, American singer, dancer and film actress, pneumonia.

21

• Ron Bailey, 75, Australian international rugby league footballer.
• Lee Calhoun, 56, American hurdler, dual Olympic gold medalist. ^[25]
• Aleksandr Safronov, 36, Soviet speed skater and Olympian.
• Edmond Sollberger, 68, Turkish-Swiss–British museum curator, scholar of the Sumerian language.

22

• Anton Dermota, 79, Slovene lyric tenor. ^[26]
• William Fletcher-Vane, 80, British politician, member of the House of Lords.
• Robert Körner, 64, Austrian international footballer.
• Henri Sauguet, 88, French composer. ^[27]
• Isaac Starr, 94, American physician, heart disease specialist and clinical epidemiologist. ^[28]

23

• Michel Aflaq, 79, Syrian philosopher and Arab nationalist, complications from heart surgery. ^[29]
• Werner Best, 85, German Nazi Party leader, organiser of the SS-Einsatzgruppen paramilitary death squads. ^[30]
• Timothy Manning, 79, Irish-American Roman Catholic archbishop. ^[31]

24

• Russell Meiggs, 86, British ancient historian.
• Hibari Misora, 52, Japanese singer and actress. ^[32]
• Ghulam Raziq, 56, Pakistani hurdler and Olympian.
• Prince Vasili Alexandrovich of Russia, 81, Russian-American nephew of Tsar Nicholas II. ^[33]

25

• Idris Cox, 89, Welsh communist activist and newspaper editor.
• M. A. Daniel, 35, Sri Lankan politician, murdered.

26

• Howard Charles Green, 93, Canadian federal politician.
• Walter Ralston Martin, 60, American Baptist Christian minister and author.
• Inger Stender, 76, Danish actress of stage, film and television.

27

• Sir Alfred Ayer, 78, English philosopher. ^[34]
• Jack Buetel, 73, American film and television actor. ^[35]
• Dorothy Bullitt, 97, American businesswoman and philanthropist.
• Michele Lupo, 56, Italian film director. ^[36]
• Gregory McMahon, 74, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Stevan Vilotić, 63, Yugoslav footballer and manager.

28

• Karl Bendetsen, 81, American politician and military officer, U.S. Under Secretary of the Army.
• Joris Ivens, 90, Dutch documentary filmmaker. ^[37]
• Mike Sebastian, 79, American NFL footballer.

29

• Kazuo Mori, 78, Japanese film director

30

• Hilmar Baunsgaard, 69, Danish politician, Prime Minister of Denmark. ^[38]
• John Bloomfield, 87, Australian politician.
• Jim Dewar, 67, American footballer.
• Rostislav Plyatt, 80, Russian stage and film actor.

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2. "Frederic Prokosch Is Dead at 81; Novelist and Portrayer of Literati" . The New York Times . June 3, 1989. p. 1 11. Retrieved March 23, 2024.
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23. Glenn Fowler (June 21, 1989). "George C. Pimentel; Chemist Who Led Mars Study Was 67" . The New York Times . p. D 25. Retrieved March 23, 2024.
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