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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.

October 1989

1

• Eric Ball, 85, British composer and brass band conductor. ^[1]
• Manuel Clouthier, 55, Mexican politician, traffic collision. ^[2]
• Carlo Dapporto, 78, Italian film actor. ^[3]
• Ian Keith, 81, Scottish peer and nobleman. ^[4]
• David Lindesay-Bethune, 63, British soldier and hereditary peer. ^[5]
• Witold Rowicki, 75, Polish conductor (Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra). ^[6]
• Frank Sachse, 72, American football and basketball player. ^[7]

2

• Paola Barbara, 77, Italian film actress ( White Amazons ). ^[8]
• Aubrey Boomer, 91, American golfer, stroke. ^[9]
• Vittorio Caprioli, 68, Italian actor and director, heart attack. ^[10]
• Cousin Joe, 81, American blues and jazz singer. ^[11]
• Gregory Marshall, 50, American actor. ^[12]
• Jesús Emilio Jaramillo Monsalve, 73, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Arauca, shot. ^[13]

3

• James Bickford, 76, American Olympic bobsledder (1936, 1948, 1952, 1956). ^[14]
• John Eugene Cay Jr., 74, American author (Ward Allen: Savannah River Market Hunter), brain tumour. ^[15]
• David H. Geiger, 53–54, American engineer, heart attack. ^[16]
• Mehmut Şevket Karman, 77, Turkish Olympic skier (1936). ^[17]
• Bahadur Khan, 58, Indian sarod player and film score composer. ^[18]
• Andrée Lafayette, 86, French actress (Trilby). ^[19]
• Dennis McGee, 96, American Cajun musician. ^[20]
• Yvonne Sylvain, 82, Haitian physician. ^[21]
• Ray Thomas, 63, Australian rules footballer. ^[22]
• Del Wood, 69, American pianist, stroke. ^[23]
• Norman Yardley, 74, English test cricketer, captain of England, stroke. ^[24]

4

• Michael Barton Akehurst, 48–49, British lawyer and author. ^[25]
• Thomas Canning, 77, American composer and music educator. ^[26]
• Graham Chapman, 48, British actor, comedian and writer ( Monty Python ), tonsil cancer. ^[27]
• Laura Combes, 35, American bodybuilder, alcohol poisoning. ^[28]
• Frederic de Hoffmann, 65, Austrian-born American nuclear physicist (Manhattan Project), AIDS from blood transfusion. ^[29]
• Moisés Giroldi, 39, Panamanian military commander (1989 Panamanian coup attempt), executed. ^[30]
• Ramchandra Purushottam Marathe, 64, Indian music director, singer and actor.
• Edmund Osmańczyk, 76, Polish writer. ^[31]
• Betsy King Ross, 68, American actress, anthropologist and author. ^[32]
• Lutero Vargas, 77, Brazilian physician, diplomat and politician, ambassador to Nicaragua. ^[33]

5

• Robert T. Ashmore, 85, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1953-1969), heart ailments and pneumonia. ^[34]
• Lawrence Dundas, 80, British hereditary peer. ^[35]
• Ernesto Formenti, 62, Italian Olympic boxer (1948). ^[36]
• John Layton, 77, American Olympic sports shooter (1948). ^[37]
• Noël-Noël, 92, French actor and screenwriter.
• Big Wilson, 65, American radio personality, heart attack. ^[38]

6

• Patricia Cockburn, 75, Irish writer and artist, cancer. ^[39]
• Bette Davis, 81, American actress (Dangerous, Jezebel), cancer. ^[40]
• Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, 69, French actor and director, ruptured aneurysm.
• Gaston Fayaud, 75, French Olympic boxer (1932, 1936). ^[41]
• Howard Garns, 84, American architect, creator of Sudoku, cancer.
• Paul Henry, 77, Belgian footballer. ^[42]
• Tina Isa, 16, American murder victim.
• Robert Poulet, 96, Belgian writer and journalist, sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis.
• Reinhard Seiler, 80, Nazi German Luftwaffe officer and flying ace. ^[43]
• Jack Turner, 100, Canadian war photographer. ^[44]

7

• Kurt Carlsen, 75, Danish-born American sea-captain (SS Flying Enterprise). ^[45]
• Keith Elliott, 73, New Zealand soldier, Victoria Cross recipient, cancer. ^[46]
• Josep Espada, 77, Spanish footballer.
• Forrest McPherson, 77, American NFL player (Chicago Bears, Philadelphia Eagles, Green Bay Packers). ^[47]
• Aleksanteri Saarvala, 76, Finnish Olympic gymnast (1936, 1948). ^[48]
• Earl Thomas, 74, American basketball player. ^[49]

8

• Genki Abe, 95, Japanese lawyer, police bureaucrat and cabinet minister. ^[50]
• Onest Conley, 82, American film actor (Racing Luck). ^[51]
• Anne Dawson, 92, British secret agent in World War I. ^[52]
• Gerry Denoird, 87, Canadian NHL player (Toronto St. Pats). ^[53]
• Alwyn Harris, Royal Ulster Constabulary superintendent killed by the Provisional I.R.A. ^[54]
• Oscar Moglia, 54, Uruguayan basketballer and Olympic medalist (Club Atlético Welcome, Uruguay). ^[55]
• Dagmar Oakland, 92, American actress.
• Edward Woods, 86, American actor ( The Public Enemy ). ^[56]

9

• Ernst Andersson, 80, Swedish footballer. ^[57]
• Yusuf Atılgan, 68, Turkish novelist and dramatist, heart attack.
• Elizabeth Cadell, 85, British and Portuguese writer. ^[58]
• Fernand Ciatti, 77, Luxembourgian Olympic boxer (1936). ^[59]
• Herman Clark, 58, American NFL player (Chicago Bears). ^[60]
• Sven Israelsson, 69, Swedish Olympic Nordic combined skier (1948). ^[61]
• Penny Lernoux, 49, American author and journalist, lung cancer. ^[62]
• Silvio Parodi, 57, Paraguayan football player and manager. ^[63]
• Hassan Poladi, 44, Indian-born American writer ( The Hazaras ), liver failure. ^[64]

10

• Robin Hughes, 69, Argentinian-born British film and television actor, liver disease. ^[65]
• Murray McFarlane, 81, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1958-1962). ^[66]

11

• Percival Goodman, 85, American urban theorist and architect, designer of Synagogues, lung cancer. ^[67]
• László Hidvéghy, 78, Hungarian Olympic speed skater (1936). ^[68]
• M. King Hubbert, 86, American geologist and geophysicist (Hubbert peak theory), pulmonary embolism. ^[69]
• Theodore Lorber, 82, American Olympic fencer (1932). ^[70]
• Bill Phebus, 80, American MLB player (Washington Senators). ^[71]
• Arnold Picker, 76, American film executive and mayor of Golden Beach, Florida, on Nixon's Enemies List, pneumonia. ^[72]
• Paul Shenar, 53, American actor and theatre director ( The Secret of NIMH , Scarface), AIDS. ^[73]
• Zeng Xianzhi, 79, Chinese revolutionary and politician.

12

• Rolando Bacigalupo, 75, Peruvian Olympic basketball player (1936). ^[74]
• Herb Boschen, 81, Australian rules footballer. ^[75]
• Carmen Cavallaro, 76, American pianist, prostate cancer. ^[76]
• Joe Foy, 46, American Major League baseball player (Boston Red Sox), heart attack. ^[77]
• Franco Luambo, 51, Congolese musician, AIDS. ^[78]
• Tommy Muldoon, 92, Irish footballer and Olympian (1924). ^[79]
• Sim Var, 83, Cambodian politician, Prime Minister of Cambodia. ^[80]
• Jay Ward, 69, American creator of animated TV cartoons ( The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends ), renal cancer. ^[81]
• N. V. Krishna Warrier, 73, Indian poet and journalist.

13

• Fred Agabashian, 76, American racer of midget cars and Indy cars. ^[82]
• Tony Castaño, 77, Mexican baseball player. ^[83]
• Lud Gluskin, 90, American jazz drummer and bandleader. ^[84]
• Ed Kelaart, 88, Ceylonese cricketer.
• Munawar Ali Khan, 59, Indian classical vocalist.
• Merab Kostava, 50, Georgian dissident, musician and poet, car crash. ^[85]
• Patrick McAuliffe, 75, Irish politician, member of the Dáil Éireann (1944-1969).
• Giuseppe Palmieri, 87, Italian Olympic athlete (1924). ^[86]
• Herbert Wildman, 77, American Olympic water polo player (1932, 1936). ^[87]
• Cesare Zavattini, 87, Italian screenwriter. ^[88]

14

• Martin Broszat, 63, German historian. ^[89]
• Michael Carmine, 30, American actor, AIDS. ^[90]
• Lucy Doraine, 91, Hungarian-born silent-screen actress. ^[91]
• Art Keay, 82, Canadian Olympic long-distance runner (1928). ^[92]
• Scott Liebler, 29, American racing driver, racing accident. ^[93]
• René Petit, 90, French engineer and international footballer (Real Unión, France). ^[94]
• Dov Sadan, 87, Israeli literacy critic and politician, member of the Knesset (1965-1968).
• Amancio Williams, 76, Argentinian architect. ^[95]

15

• James Lee Barrett, 59, American author, producer and screenwriter, cancer. ^[96]
• Paul Georgescu, 65, Romanian journalist, fiction writer and communist political figure. ^[97]
• Lou Guisto, 94, American MLB player (Cleveland Indians). ^[98]
• Danilo Kiš, 54, Serbian novelist and short story writer (Hourglass), lung cancer. ^[99]
• Scott O'Dell, 91, American children's writer ( Island of the Blue Dolphins ), prostate cancer. ^[100]
• Michał Rola-Żymierski, 99, Polish Communist Party leader, Marshal of Poland.
• Heinrich Walter, 90, German-Russian botanist. ^[101]

16

• Mirko Bonačić, 86, Yugoslavian Olympic footballer (1928). ^[102]
• Walter Farley, 74, American author ( The Black Stallion ), cancer. ^[103]
• Juan B. Fernandez-Badillo, 77, Puerto Rican district judge (United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico). ^[104]
• Hans Frette, 62, Norwegian politician.
• Alfred Krupa, 74, Polish-born Yugoslavian painter.
• Frederick Millar, 89, British diplomat, ambassador to West Germany. ^[105]
• Cornel Wilde, 77, Hungarian-born American actor ( A Song to Remember ), leukemia. ^[106]

17

• John J. Anderson, 32, American writer on computing and technology (Computer Shopper, MacUser), California earthquake. ^[107]
• George Gardiner, 74, Australian cricketer.
• Morteza Hannaneh, 66, Iranian composer and musician.
• Helge Jansson, 85, Swedish Olympic athlete (1924, 1928). ^[108]
• Mark Krein, 82, Soviet mathematician (operator theory). ^[109]
• John Mackinson, 65, American MLB player (Philadelphia Athletics, St. Louis Cardinals). ^[110]
• J. B. Malone, 75, Irish hill-walking enthusiast. ^[111]
• Cyril Mathew, 77, Sri Lankan politician, Member of Parliament, heart attack. ^[112]
• R. A. B. Mynors, 86, English classicist and medievalist, road accident. ^[113]
• Derek Pace, 57, English footballer (Sheffield United).

18

• Lešek Boubela, 79, Czechoslovakian Olympic water polo player (1936). ^[114]
• Stan Miasek, 65, American NBA basketballer (Chicago Stags). ^[115]
• John Reddish, 84, English footballer and cricketer.
• David Victor, 79, American producer and screenwriter.

19

• Eric Dixon, 59, American tenor saxophonist, flautist and composer. ^[116]
• Albert Geldard, 75, English international footballer (Everton, England). ^[117]
• Jerzy Jurowicz, 69, Polish footballer. ^[118]
• Alan Murphy, 35, English rock session guitarist, pneumonia.
• Salim Nasir, 44, Pakistani film and TV actor ( Aangan Terha ), heart attack.
• Essie Shevill, 81, Australian cricketer.
• Alfred Zulkowski, 49, German footballer. ^[119]

20

• Dan Ben-Amotz, 65, Polish-born Israeli radio broadcaster, journalist and author, liver cancer. ^[120]
• Rupert Costo, 82–83, Native American writer, activist and publisher. ^[121]
• Dmitry Faddeev, 82, Soviet mathematician. ^[122]
• Katharina Heinroth, 92, German zoologist, director of Berlin Zoo. ^[123]
• Jim Karthaus, 91, Australian rules footballer. ^[124]
• Gurdial Singh Phul, 77–78, Indian Punjabi dramatist. ^[125]
• Sir Anthony Quayle, 76, British actor (Lawrence of Arabia, Anne of the Thousand Days ), liver cancer. ^[126]
• James Smurthwaite, 73, English cricketer.

21

• Alfred Hayes, 79, American banker, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. ^[127]
• Jean Image, 78, Hungarian-French director and producer of animation films.
• Cencio Mantovani, 48, Italian Olympic cyclist (1964). ^[128]
• Alphonse Margailland, 80, French Olympic rower (1928). ^[129]

22

• Ross Freeman, 41, American electrical engineer and inventor, co-founder of Xilinx. ^[130]
• Ewan MacColl, 74, British folk singer and songwriter ( The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face ), complications from heart surgery. ^[131]
• Tony Manero, 84, American golfer, winner of 1936 U.S. Open. ^[132]
• Charles Gelbert Neese, 73, American district judge (United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee). ^[133]
• Duke Nelson, 82, American college athletics coach and administrator.
• Bjarne Daniel Solli, 78, Norwegian politician.
• Jacob Wetterling, 11, American murder victim. ^[134]
• Roland Winters, 84, American actor ( Charlie Chan ), stroke. ^[135]

23

• Cecil Alloo, 94, New Zealand cricketer, soldier, and lawyer.
• Edmund E. Anderson, 83, American automotive designer (American Motors Corporation, General Motors).
• Armida, 78, Mexican-born American actress, singer and dancer, heart attack. ^[136]
• Bert Hyde, 82, Australian rules footballer. ^[137]
• Basavaraj Kattimani, 70, Indian novelist and journalist. ^[138]
• Clive Lewington, 69, Australian rules footballer. ^[139]
• Anatoly Lutikov, 56, Russian chess player. ^[140]
• Konrad Wolff, 82, German pianist and musicologist, heart failure. ^[141]

24

• Dean Alfange, 91, American politician, deputy New York State Attorney General, cancer. ^[142]
• Gopal Gurunath Bewoor, 73, Indian army general, Chief of the Army Staff.
• Ralph Chase, 86, American NFL player (Hammond Pros, Akron Indians). ^[143]
• Eugène Claudius-Petit, 82, French politician. ^[144]
• Ronald Davis, 74, British Olympic field hockey player (1948). ^[145]
• Joe Ewing Estes, 86, American district judge (United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas). ^[146]
• Phyllis Greenacre, 95, American psychoanalyst and physician. ^[147]
• Jerzy Kukuczka, 41, Polish mountaineer, fall from mountain. ^[148]
• Vasilijus Matuševas, 43, Soviet Lithuanian Olympic volleyball player (1968). ^[149]
• Otto Olsen, 94, Danish Olympic modern pentathlete (1924, 1928). ^[150]
• Ollie O'Mara, 98, American MLB player (Brooklyn Robins). ^[151]
• Alex Seidel, 80, German weapons manufacturer, co-founder of Heckler & Koch.
• Sahib Shihab, 64, American jazz saxophonist and flautist, liver cancer.

25

• Manuel Gregorio Acosta, 68, Mexican-born American painter, sculptor and illustrator, murdered. ^[152]
• Georges Calmon, 79, French Olympic equestrian (1956). ^[153]
• Frank Davies, 79, Australian rules footballer. ^[154]
• Enrico Forcella, 82, Venezuelan Olympic sports shooter (1960, 1964, 1968). ^[155]
• Mary McCarthy, 77, American novelist (The Group), lung cancer. ^[156]
• Steve Moore, 29, American NFL footballer (New England Patriots), murdered. ^[157]
• Cornel Orza, 73, Romanian footballer. ^[158]
• Stuart Parkinson, 60, British Olympic alpine skier and bobsledder (1948, 1956). ^[159]
• Carl Schmitt, 100, American painter and writer. ^[160]
• Gerard Walschap, 91, Belgian writer. ^[161]

26

• Burt Bales, 73, American jazz stride pianist.
• Don Bass, 33, American NFL footballer (Cincinnati Bengals), murdered. ^[162]
• Ermal C. Fraze, 76, American engineer, inventor of the pull-tab opener, brain tumour. ^[163]
• Mabel Hampton, 87, American gay activist and dancer, pneumonia. ^[164]
• Nora Levin, 73, American Holocaust historian, cancer. ^[165]
• Charles J. Pedersen, 85, Korean-born American organic chemist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry. ^[166]
• Gordon Reid, 66, Australian academic, Governor of Western Australia, cancer. ^[167]
• Andy Roberts, 42, New Zealand cricketer. ^[168]
• Cynthia Slater, 44, American sex educator, AIDS.
• Kumeko Urabe, 87, Japanese movie actress, burns.

27

• Burton C. Gray, 48, American economist and entrepreneur, co-founded Scientific Time Sharing Corporation. ^[169]
• Ted Grefe, 72, American NFL player (Detroit Lions). ^[170]
• William Kerwin, 62, American actor and filmmaker, heart attack. ^[171]
• Allan Campbell McLean, 66, British writer and political activist. ^[172]
• Amy Mihaljevic, 10, American murder victim. ^[173]
• Benjamin Murmelstein, 84, Austrian rabbi. ^[174]
• Francesco Ruspoli, 90, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire.
• Willy Senn, 69, Swiss Olympic shot putter (1948). ^[175]
• Sándor Szomori, 78, Hungarian Olympic handball player (1936). ^[176]
• Alfred Wilson, 85, American Olympic rower (1924). ^[177]

28

• Darel Dieringer, 63, American professional stock car racing driver. ^[178]
• Henry Hall, 91, English bandleader. ^[179]
• Louise Hay, 54, French-born American mathematician (recursively enumerable sets), breast cancer. ^[180]
• Johannes Lislerud, 78, Norwegian politician.
• Dado Marino, 74, American flyweight boxer, world flyweight champion.
• Liam Redmond, 76, Irish stage, film and television actor. ^[181]
• Al Satterfield, 67, American NFL player (San Francisco 49ers). ^[182]
• Yuliya Solntseva, 88, Soviet actress and film director ( Aelita ). ^[183]
• Peter Whiteley, 54, English cricketer.
• Kateb Yacine, 60, Algerian writer of novels and plays. ^[184]

29

• Roland Anderson, 85, American movie art director.
• Jack Barker, 71, Australian rules footballer. ^[185]
• Róża Maria Goździewska, 53, Polish child nurse during Warsaw uprising.
• Ndaba Mhlongo, 56, South African actor and choreographer.

30

• Joseph Beruh, 65, American film and theatrical producer. ^[186]
• Herbert Bignall, 83, British Olympic long-distance runner (1928). ^[187]
• Walter Bradshaw, 83, English cricketer.
• Willie Cornelius, 83, American Negro Leagues baseball player. ^[188]
• Theodore Roosevelt Dalton, 88, American attorney and U.S. district judge, pneumonia. ^[189]
• Karen Grigorian, 42, Armenian chess master, suicide.
• Ingeborg Refling Hagen, 93, Norwegian author, poet and artistic director. ^[190]
• Douglas Legg, 75, British Olympic basketball player (1948). ^[191]
• Aristid Lindenmayer, 63, Hungarian biologist (L-systems). ^[192]
• Francis J. Love, 88, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1947-1949). ^[193]
• Patrick Mooney, 85, Irish politician, member of the Dáil Éireann (1954-1969).
• Raymond Offner, 61, French Olympic basketball player (1948). ^[194]
• Erich Reuter, 85, Nazi German general in the Wehrmacht. ^[195]
• Yisrael Spira, 99, Polish Holocaust survivor. ^[196]
• Pedro Vargas, 83, Mexican tenor and actor, diabetes. ^[197]

31

• Conrad Beck, 88, Swiss composer.
• Raymond Durand, 81, French footballer. ^[198]
• Sune Lindström, 82, Swedish architect.
• Elliott Loughlin, 79, American U.S. Navy Rear Admiral. ^[199]
• Georgi Partsalev, 64, Bulgarian theatre and film actor. ^[200]
• George Rae, 78, English cricketer. ^[201]
• Roger Scott, 46, British radio disc jockey, stomach cancer. ^[202]
• Earl Seick, 78, American NFL player (New York Giants). ^[203]
• Walter R. Tkach, 72, American Physician to the President, heart disease. ^[204]

Unknown date

• Wilgar Campbell, 42–43, Irish blues rock musician, alcohol-related illness.
• Johannes Mashiane, South African rapist and serial killer, suicide.
• Gerry Monroe, 56, English pop singer.

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76. Carmen Cavallaro, Pianist, 76. New York Times. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024.
77. "Joe Foy, Baseball Player, 46" . The New York Times . October 14, 1989. p. 1 32. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
78. Franco, 51, Zairian Band Leader And Creator of the Soukous Style. New York Times. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024.
79. "Olympedia – Tommy Muldoon". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved October 7, 2025.
80. Sim Var, Ex-Cambodian Premier, 85. New York Times. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024.
81. Andrew L. Yarrow (October 14, 1989). "Jay Ward, 69, The TV Cartoonist Who Created Bullwinkle, is Dead" . The New York Times . p. 1 32. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
82. Names in the News - Oct. 16, 1989. L.A. Times. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024.
83. "Tony Castano Minor & Mexican Leagues Statistics". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
84. Ludwig Gluskin Dead; Music Director Was 90. New York Times. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024.
85. "Merab Kostava, 50, a Soviet Rights Figure" . The New York Times . October 14, 1989. p. 1 32. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
86. "Olympedia – Giuseppe Palmieri". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved October 7, 2025.
87. "Olympedia – Herb Wildman". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved October 7, 2025.
88. Kevin Sack (October 16, 1989). "Cesare Zavattini, 87, Screenwriter Who Worked With De Sica, Dies" . The New York Times . p. D 15. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
89. Eric Pace (November 2, 1989). "Martin Broszat, German Historian And War Crimes Expert, 63, Dies" . The New York Times . p. B 21. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
90. Michael Carmine, 30, Stage and Film Actor. New York Times. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024.
91. Lucy Doraine. WorldCat. Retrieved 6 Nov 2024.
92. "Olympedia – Art Keay". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
93. Names in the News - Oct. 17, 1989. L.A. Times. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024.
94. René Petit. Olympedia. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024.
95. Dear Mr. Amancio (or the Architect). Canadian Centre for Architecture. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024.
96. James Lee Barrett, Award-Winning Scriptwriter, Dies. L.A. Times. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024.
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98. "Lou Guisto Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
99. Danilo Kis Dead at 54; Wrote of the Holocaust. New York Times. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024.
100. Scott O'Dell, a Children's Author Of Historical Fiction, Dies at 91. New York Times. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024.
101. Heinrich Walter. WorldCat. Retrieved 6 Nov 2024.
102. "Olympedia – Mirko Bonačić". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
103. Albert Scardino (October 18, 1989). "Walter Farley, 74, A Writer of a Series On a Black Stallion" . The New York Times . p. D 29. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
104. "Fernandez-Badillo, Juan B. | Federal Judicial Center". www.fjc.gov. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
105. Gravestone: Frederick Robert Hoyer Millar 16.10.89. Kinfauns Parish Churchyard, Kinfauns, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024.
106. Peter B. Flint (October 17, 1989). "Cornel Wilde, 74, a Performer and Film Producer" . The New York Times . p. B 8. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
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108. "Olympedia – Helge Jansson". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
109. Gravestone: Mark Grigorievich Krein 17.10.89. Odessa 2nd Christian Cemetery, Odessa, Odesa Raion, Odeska, Ukraine. Retrieved 8 Sep 2024.
110. "John Mackinson Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
111. Malone, John James Bernard ('J. B.'). Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 8 Sep 2024.
112. "Cyril Mathew, Sri Lanka Politician, 77" . The New York Times . October 18, 1989. p. D 29. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
113. Sir Roger Aubrey Baskerville Mynors (July 28, 1903-October 17, 1989). JSTOR (American Philosophical Society). Retrieved 8 Sep 2024.
114. "Olympedia – Lešek Boubela". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
115. Stan Miasek. Basketball Reference. Retrieved 8 Sep 2024.
116. Eric Dixon. WorldCat. Retrieved 7 Nov 2024.
117. Albert Geldard (Player). National Football Teams. Retrieved 8 Sep 2024.
118. "Jerzy Jurowicz". worldfootball.net. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
119. Strack-Zimmermann, Benjamin. "Alfred Zulkowski (Player)". www.national-football-teams.com. Retrieved October 7, 2025.
120. Dahn Ben-Amotz, Israeli Author, 65. New York Times. Retrieved 8 Sep 2024.
121. Rupert Costo; American Indian Scholar Who Fought Stereotypes. L.A. Times. Retrieved 8 Sep 2024.
122. Dmitrij Konstantinovich Faddeev. WorldCat. Retrieved 7 Nov 2024.
123. Katharina Heinroth. WorldCat. Retrieved 7 Nov 2024.
124. "Australian Football - Jim Karthaus - Player Bio". australianfootball.com. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
125. Phul, Gurdial Singh. The Sikh Encyclopedia. Retrieved 8 Sep 2024.
126. Glenn Collins (October 21, 1989). "Sir Anthony Quayle, British Actor And Theater Director, Dies at 76" . The New York Times . p. 1 10. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
127. Alfred Hayes, 79, Retired Chief Of the Reserve Bank of New York. New York Times. Retrieved 8 Sep 2024.
128. "Olympedia – Cencio Mantovani". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
129. "Olympedia – Alphonse Margaillan". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
130. Ross Freeman. National Inventors Hall of Fame. Retrieved 8 Sep 2024.
131. Ewan MacColl Dies; Folk Singer Was 74. New York Times. Retrieved 8 Sep 2024.
132. Tony Manero, Golf Champion, 84. New York Times. Retrieved 8 Sep 2024.
133. "Neese, Charles Gelbert | Federal Judicial Center". www.fjc.gov. Retrieved October 7, 2025.
134. Parents, investigators recall long quest for answers after Jacob Wetterling's 1989 abduction. ABC News. Retrieved 8 Sep 2024.
135. "Roland Winters, 84; Played Charlie Chan" . The New York Times . October 25, 1989. p. D 29. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
136. Armida. WorldCat. Retrieved 7 Nov 2024.
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139. "Australian Football - Clive Lewington - Player Bio". australianfootball.com. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
140. Anatoly Lutikov. WorldCat. Retrieved 7 Nov 2024.
141. Konrad Wolff, Pianist And Author, Dies at 82. New York Times. Retrieved 8 Sep 2024.
142. Glenn Fowler (October 27, 1989). "Dean Alfange, Liberal Leader, Is Dead at 91" . The New York Times . p. D 19. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
143. "Ralph Chase Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Draft, College". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
144. Eugène Claudius-Petit. WorldCat. Retrieved 7 Nov 2024.
145. "Olympedia – Ronald Davies". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
146. "Estes, Joe Ewing | Federal Judicial Center". www.fjc.gov. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
147. Dr. Phyllis Greenacre, 95, a Psychoanalyst. New York Times. Retrieved 8 Sep 2024.
148. Polish Mountain Climber Dies While Scaling Peak in Himalayas. L.A. Times. Retrieved 8 Sep 2024.
149. "Olympedia – Vasilijus Matuševas". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
150. "Olympedia – Otto Olsen". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved October 7, 2025.
151. "Ollie O'Mara Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved October 7, 2025.
152. Acosta, Manuel Gregorio (1921–1989). Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved 8 Sep 2024.
153. "Olympedia – Georges Calmon". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
154. "Australian Football - Frank Davies - Player Bio". australianfootball.com. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
155. "Olympedia – Enrico Forcella". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
156. Michiko Kakutani (October 26, 1989). "Mary McCarthy, 77, Is Dead; Novelist, Memoirist and Critic" . The New York Times . p. A 1. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
157. Former New England Patriot Steve Moore was.... L.A. Times. Retrieved 8 Sep 2024.
158. Strack-Zimmermann, Benjamin. "Corneliu Orza (Player)". www.national-football-teams.com. Retrieved October 7, 2025.
159. "Olympedia – Stuart Parkinson". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved October 7, 2025.
160. Schmitt, Carl (1889-1989). Connecticut State Library. Retrieved 8 Sep 2024.
161. Gerard Walschap. WorldCat. Retrieved 7 Nov 2024.
162. Don Bass. Pro Football Reference. Retrieved 8 Sep 2024.
163. E. C. Fraze, 76; Devised Pull Tab. New York Times. Retrieved 8 Sep 2024.
164. Mabel Hampton, Gay Rights Advocate, 87. New York Times. Retrieved 8 Sep 2024.
165. Nora Levin, Historian, 73. New York Times. Retrieved 8 Sep 2024.
166. John T. McQuiston (October 27, 1989). "Charles Pedersen, 85, Nobel Winner in Chemistry" . The New York Times . p. D 19. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
167. Gordon Stanley Reid. Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 8 Sep 2024.
168. "Andy Roberts Profile - Cricket Player New Zealand | Stats, Records, Video". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved October 7, 2025.
169. Burton Craige Gray, Executive, 48. New York Times. Retrieved 8 Sep 2024.
170. "Ted Grefe Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Draft, College". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
171. William Kerwin. WorldCat. Retrieved 7 Nov 2024.
172. Allan Campbell McLean. WorldCat (year of death only). Retrieved 7 Nov 2024.
173. Amy Renee Mihaljevic. FBI.gov. Retrieved 8 Sep 2024.
174. 'The Last of the Unjust,' About a Jewish Camp Official. New York Times (year of death only). Retrieved 8 Sep 2024.
175. "Olympedia – Willy Senn". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved October 7, 2025.
176. "Olympedia – Sándor Szomori". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved October 7, 2025.
177. "Olympedia – Al Wilson". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved October 7, 2025.
178. Obituary for Darel Dieringer (Aged 63). Newspapers.com (The Indianapolis News). Retrieved 8 Sep 2024.
179. Henry Hall. London Remembers. Retrieved 8 Sep 2024.
180. Louise S. Hay, Professor, 54. New York Times. Retrieved 8 Sep 2024.
181. Redmond, William Gerard (Liam). Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 8 Sep 2024.
182. "Al Satterfield Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Draft, College". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved October 7, 2025.
183. Solntseva, Yulia (1901–1989). Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 8 Sep 2024.
184. "Kateb Yacine, Novelist And Poet, Is Dead at 60" . The New York Times . October 31, 1989. p. B 10. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
185. "Australian Football - Jack Barker - Player Bio". australianfootball.com. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
186. "Joseph Beruh, 65, Dies; A Theatrical Producer (Published 1989)". The New York Times . October 31, 1989. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
187. "Olympedia – Herb Bignall". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
188. "Willie Cornelius Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
189. "Ted Dalton, 88, Dies; Retired Federal Judge" . The New York Times . November 2, 1989. p. B 21. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
190. Ingeborg Refling Hagen. WorldCat. Retrieved 7 Nov 2024.
191. "Olympedia – Doug Legg". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
192. Obituary: Aristid Lindenmayer. Taylor & Francis (International Journal Of General System). Retrieved 9 Sep 2024.
193. "Bioguide Search". bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved October 6, 2025.
194. "Olympedia – Raymond Offner". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved October 7, 2025.
195. Reuter, Erich. Traces of War. Retrieved 9 Sep 2024.
196. Israel Spira, 99, Leader of Bluzhov Hasidim. New York Times. Retrieved 9 Sep 2024.
197. "Pedro Vargas, a Mexican Singer And Film Performer, Is Dead at 85" . The New York Times . October 31, 1989. p. B 10. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
198. Strack-Zimmermann, Benjamin. "Raymond Durand (Player)". www.national-football-teams.com. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
199. Gravestone: RADM Charles Elliott Loughlin 31.10.89. United States Naval Academy Cemetery, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, USA. Retrieved 9 Sep 2024.
200. Georgi Partsalev. WorldCat. Retrieved 7 Nov 2024.
201. "George Rae Profile - Cricket Player India | Stats, Records, Video". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved October 7, 2025.
202. Roger Scott. WorldCat. Retrieved 7 Nov 2024.
203. "Red Seick Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Draft, College". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved October 7, 2025.
204. Walter Tkach, 72; Served as the Doctor To Three Presidents. New York Times. Retrieved 9 Sep 2024.

External links

• List of October 1989 deaths at IMDb