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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

• Manuel Clouthier, 55, Mexican agriculturalist, businessman and politician, car accident.
• Carlo Dapporto, 78, Italian film actor.
• Witold Rowicki, 75, Polish conductor. ^[1]

2

• Paola Barbara, 77, Italian film actress.
• Aubrey Boomer, 91, American golfer, stroke.
• Vittorio Caprioli, 68, Italian actor, director and screenwriter, heart attack.
• Cousin Joe, 81, American blues and jazz singer.

3

• Bahadur Khan, 58, Indian sarod player and film score composer.
• Del Wood, 69, American pianist, stroke.
• Norman Yardley, 74, English test cricketer, captain of England, stroke.

4

• Graham Chapman, 48, British actor, comedian and writer, tonsil cancer. ^[2]
• Edmund Osmańczyk, 76, Polish writer.

5

• Robert T. Ashmore, 85, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives. ^[3]
• Ernesto Formenti, 62, Italian boxer and Olympic gold medalist.
• Noël-Noël, 92, French actor and screenwriter.
• Dicky Ralph, 81, Welsh international rugby player.

6

• Bette Davis, 81, American actress, cancer. ^[4]
• Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, 69, French actor, critic, screenwriter and director, ruptured aneurysm.
• Paul Henry, 77, Belgian footballer.
• Robert Poulet, 96, Belgian writer, literary critic and journalist.
• Reinhard Seiler, 80, Nazi German Luftwaffe Major and ace.

7

• Keith Elliott, 73, New Zealand soldier, cancer.
• Abe Landa, 86, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.
• Forrest McPherson, 77, American NFL footballer.
• Aleksanteri Saarvala, 76, Finnish gymnast and Olympic gold medalist.

8

• Oscar Moglia, 54, Uruguayan basketballer and Olympic medalist.

9

• Ernst Andersson, 80, Swedish international footballer.
• Yusuf Atılgan, 68, Turkish novelist and dramatist, heart attack.
• James Chabot, 62, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.
• Herman Clark, 58, American NFL footballer.
• Alan Hulme, 82, Australian politician, Postmaster-General of Australia.
• Hassan Poladi, 44, Indian-American writer, liver failure.

10

• Robin Hughes, 69, British film and television actor.

11

• Roberts Dunstan, 66, Australian politician, soldier and aviator during the Second World War.
• Percival Goodman, 85, American urban theorist and architect. ^[5]
• M. King Hubbert, 86, American geologist and geophysicist, pulmonary embolism. ^[6]
• Paul Shenar, 53, American actor and theatre director, AIDS.

12

• Carmen Cavallaro, 76, American pianist, prostate cancer.
• Joe Foy, 46, American Major League baseballer, heart attack. ^[7]
• Franco Luambo, 51, Congolese musician, AIDS.
• Sim Var, 83, Cambodian politician, Prime Minister of Cambodia.
• Jay Ward, 69, American creator and producer of animated TV cartoon shows, renal cancer. ^[8]
• N. V. Krishna Warrier, 73, Indian poet, journalist and scholar.

13

• Fred Agabashian, 76, American racer of midget cars and Indy cars.
• Lud Gluskin, 90, American jazz drummer and bandleader.
• Merab Kostava, 50, Georgian dissident, musician and poet, car crash. ^[9]
• Patrick McAuliffe, 75, Irish Labour Party politician.
• Giuseppe Palmieri, 87, Italian Olympic high jumper and javelin thrower.
• Cesare Zavattini, 87, Italian screenwriter. ^[10]

14

• Martin Broszat, 63, German historian. ^[11]
• Lucy Doraine, 91, Hungarian silent-screen actress.
• Klavdiya Mayuchaya, 71, Soviet javelin thrower and European champion.
• René Petit, 90, Franco-Spanish engineer and international footballer.

15

• James Lee Barrett, 59, American author, producer and screenwriter, cancer.
• Giuseppe Gandini, 89, Italian international footballer.
• Paul Georgescu, 65, Romanian literary critic, journalist, fiction writer and communist political figure.
• Tadevos Hakobyan, 72, Armenian historian and geographer.
• Danilo Kiš, 54, Serbian novelist, short story writer, essayist and translator, lung cancer.
• Scott O'Dell, 91, American children's writer, prostate cancer.
• Michał Rola-Żymierski, 99, Polish Communist Party leader, Marshal of Poland.

16

• Walter Farley, 74, American author, cancer. ^[12]
• Frederick Millar, 89, British diplomat, British Ambassador to West Germany.
• Mário Vianna, 87, Brazilian football referee, pneumonia.
• Cornel Wilde, 77, Hungarian-born American actor, leukemia. ^[13]

17

• John J. Anderson, 32, American writer and editor on computing and technology, building collapse in earthquake.
• Jack Beynon, 76, American football player.
• Mark Krein, 82, Soviet mathematician.
• Cyril Mathew, 77, Sri Lankan politician. ^[14]
• R. A. B. Mynors, 86, English classicist and medievalist, road accident.

18

• Mirko Bonačić, 86, Croatian footballer and Olympian.
• Princess Gina of Liechtenstein, 67, Princess consort of Liechtenstein.

19

• Eric Dixon, 59, American jazz tenor saxophonist, flautist, composer and arranger.
• Albert Geldard, 75, English international footballer.
• Alan Murphy, 35, English rock session guitarist, pneumonia resulting from AIDS.
• Salim Nasir, 44, Pakistani film and TV actor, heart attack.

20

• Sir Anthony Quayle, 76, British actor, theatre director and novelist, liver cancer. ^[15]
• Arthur Spjuth, 85, Swedish art director.

21

• Jean Image, 78, Hungarian-French director, script writer and producer of French animation films.
• Bud Marquardt, 75, Canadian footballer.

22

• Ewan MacColl, 74, British folk singer, songwriter, political activist and actor, complications following heart surgery.
• Tony Manero, 84, American golfer.
• Roland Winters, 84, American actor, stroke. ^[16]

23

• Edmund E. Anderson, 83, American automotive designer.
• Armida, 78, Mexican actress, singer, dancer and vaudevillian, heart attack.
• Bert Hyde, 82, Australian rules footballer.
• Clive Lewington, 69, Australian rules footballer.

24

• Dean Alfange, 91, American politician, Deputy New York State Attorney General, cancer. ^[17]
• General Gopal Gurunath Bewoor, 73, Indian Army officer.
• Ralph Chase, 86, American NFL footballer.
• Jerzy Kukuczka, 41, Polish mountaineer, fall from mountain.
• Sahib Shihab, 64, American jazz and hard bop saxophonist and flautist, liver cancer.
• Sam Smith, 62–63, English rugby league footballer and World Cup winner.
• Doris Huestis Speirs, 95, Canadian ornithologist, artist and poet.

25

• Enrico Forcella, 82, Venezuelan shooter and Olympic medalist.
• Mary McCarthy, 77, American novelist, critic and political activist, lung cancer. ^[18]
• Gerard Walschap, 91, Belgian writer.

26

• Don Bass, 33, American NFL footballer, shot.
• Charles J. Pedersen, 85, Korean-born American organic chemist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry. ^[19]
• Gordon Reid, 66, Australian academic, Governor of Western Australia, cancer.
• Anders Rydberg, 86, Swedish footballer.
• Kumeko Urabe, 87, Japanese movie actress, burns.

27

• Con Moulson, 83, Irish footballer and manager.
• Benjamin Murmelstein, 84, Austrian rabbi.
• Alfred Wilson, 85, American rower and Olympic gold medalist. ^[20]

28

• Laurent Di Lorto, 80, French international footballer.
• Darel Dieringer, 63, American professional stock car racing driver.
• Henry Hall, 91, English bandleader.
• Louise Hay, 54, French-born American mathematician, breast cancer.
• Liam Redmond, 76, Irish stage, film and television actor.
• Yuliya Solntseva, 88, Soviet actress and film director.
• Kateb Yacine, 60, Algerian writer of novels and plays. ^[21]

29

• Roland Anderson, 85, American movie art director.
• Jack Barker, 71, Australian rules footballer.
• Róża Maria Goździewska, 53, Polish child nurse during Warsaw uprising.

30

• Theodore Roosevelt Dalton, 88, American attorney and U.S. district judge, complications from pneumonia. ^[22]
• Ingeborg Refling Hagen, 93, Norwegian author, poet and artistic director.
• Aristid Lindenmayer, 63, Hungarian biologist.
• Yisrael Spira, 99, Holocaust survivor.
• Pedro Vargas, 83, Mexican tenor and actor, complications from diabetes. ^[23]

31

• Conrad Beck, 88, Swiss composer.
• Washington Saldías Fuentealba, 62, Chilean politician, Mayor of Pichilemu.
• Elliott Loughlin, 79, American U.S. Navy Rear Admiral.
• Francesc Miró-Sans, 73, Spanish businessman and president of FC Barcelona.
• Roger Scott, 46, British radio disc jockey, stomach cancer.

Unknown date

• Wilgar Campbell, 42–43, Irish blues rock musician, alcohol-related illness.
• Francis J. Love, 88, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

References

1. "Witold Rowicki, 75, Polish Conductor, Dies" . The New York Times . October 3, 1989. p. B 10. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
2. Constance L. Hays (October 5, 1989). "Graham Chapman, 48, Comedy Troupe Founder" . The New York Times . p. B 22. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
3. "Robert Ashmore, 85, Former Congressman" . The New York Times . October 7, 1989. p. 1 29. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
4. Albin Krebs (October 8, 1989). "Bette Davis, a Queen of Hollywood, Dies at 81" . The New York Times . p. 1 1. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
5. Paul Goldberger (October 12, 1989). "Percival Goodman, 85, Synagogue Designer, Dies" . The New York Times . p. B 12. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
6. Alfonso A. Narvaez (October 17, 1989). "M. King Hubbert, 86, Geologist; Research Changed Oil Production" . The New York Times . p. B 8. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
7. "Joe Foy, Baseball Player, 46" . The New York Times . October 14, 1989. p. 1 32. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
8. 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.
9. "Merab Kostava, 50, a Soviet Rights Figure" . The New York Times . October 14, 1989. p. 1 32. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. "Cyril Mathew, Sri Lanka Politician, 77" . The New York Times . October 18, 1989. p. D 29. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
15. 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.
16. "Roland Winters, 84; Played Charlie Chan" . The New York Times . October 25, 1989. p. D 29. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
17. Glenn Fowler (October 27, 1989). "Dean Alfange, Liberal Leader, Is Dead at 91" . The New York Times . p. D 19. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
18. 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.
19. John T. McQuiston (October 27, 1989). "Charles Pedersen, 85, Nobel Winner in Chemistry" . The New York Times . p. D 19. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
20. "Alfred Wilson, 85, 1924 Olympic Medalist" . The New York Times . October 28, 1989. p. 1 11. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
21. "Kateb Yacine, Novelist And Poet, Is Dead at 60" . The New York Times . October 31, 1989. p. B 10. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
22. "Ted Dalton, 88, Dies; Retired Federal Judge" . The New York Times . November 2, 1989. p. B 21. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
23. "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.