Deaths in January 1989

The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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.

January 1989

1 Charles Cornell, 77, American Communist (Socialist Workers Party).. Charles Cornell. Retrieved 9 May 2024. Percy MacKenzie, 70, English cricketer and RAF officer. Joseph Petre, 17th Baron Petre, 74, English peer. G. Sankara Pillai, 58, Indian playwright, literary critic and director.G. Sankara Pillai Profile. Veethi - The Face of India. Retrieved 13 April 2024. Anthony Pini, 86, Argentinian-Scottish cellist (London Philharmonic Orchestra).Anthony Pini Profile. Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved 29 March 2024. George Ross, 87, Australian rules footballer. Mal Rush, 79, American basketball player. Irvin Shapiro, 82, American producer, film importer and film distributor, complications from Parkinson's disease. Aleka Stratigou, 62, Greek actress

2 Fred Berry, 78, English cricketer. René Courvoisier, 81, Swiss Olympic field hockey player (1936). Safdar Hashmi, 34, Indian playwright and director, and communist activist, murdered.Safdar Hashmi: A death foretold. telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 29 March 2024. Murdo Martin, 71, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1957–1968).

3 Robert Banks, 67, American chemist (Phillips Petroleum, Perkin Medal).Dr. Robert L. Banks. Plastics Hall of Fame. Retrieved 9 May 2024. Betty Behrens, 84, British historian and academic (University of Cambridge). Jean-Paul Denis, 64, Canadian NHL player (New York Rangers). Errol Le Cain, 47, British animator and children's book illustrator (Hiawatha's Childhood – Kate Greenaway Medal). Laurence Grafftey-Smith, 96, British diplomat, member of the British Consular Service. Eddie Heywood, 73, American jazz pianist and composer (Soft Summer Breeze, Canadian Sunset).'Canadian Sunset' Composer's Career Shortened by Injury : Eddie Heywood Jr.; Popular Jazz Pianist. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 29 March 2024. Bernhard Krüger, 84, Nazi German SS Sturmbannführer. Jim Lawson, 86, American NFL player (New York Yankees). Lina Prokofiev, 91, Spanish singerLina Prokofiev, 91, Widow of the Composer. New York Times. Retrieved 14 April 2024. Sergei Sobolev, 80, Soviet mathematician.Sergey Sobolev. European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry. Retrieved 29 March 2024. Robert Thomas, 61, French writer, actor and film director. Nick Virgilio, 60, American haiku poet, heart attack. Jean Willes, 65, American film and television actress (The King and Four Queens, Invasion of the Body Snatchers), liver cancer.

4 Srikrishna Alanahalli, 41, Indian novelist and poet (Kaadu, Parasangada Gendethimma). Ratanlal Brahmin, 88, Indian politician, Member of Parliament. Pino Calvi, 58, Italian pianist, conductor and composer (Accarezzame). Junko Furuta, 17, Japanese student, murdered.Junko Furuta (1971-1989). Forever Missed. Retrieved 10 May 2024. Erling Juul, 91, Norwegian Olympic triple jumper (1920). Clare Leighton, 91, English–American artist, writer and illustrator, known for wood engravings.Clare Leighton (1898 - 1989). Royal Academy of Arts. Retrieved 10 May 2024. Mike Micka, 67, American NFL player (Washington Redskins, Boston Yanks). D. R. Nanayakkara, 73, Sri Lankan cinema actor (Rekava, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom). Dvora Netzer, 91, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (1949–1969). Robert Watson Pomeroy, 86, American businessman and politician, member of the New York Senate, heart failure.Robert Pomeroy, 86, An Ex-Legislator, Dies. New York Times. Retrieved 10 May 2024. Ross Sutherland, 51, Australian rules footballer. Naomi Chapman Woodroof, 88, American agriculturalist, known for increasing peanut yields five-fold.University of Georgia

5 Philip Herschkowitz, 82, Romanian-born composer and music theorist.Philip Herschkowitz profile. http://www.earsense.org. Retrieved 14 April 2024. Dexter Masters, 79, American editor and novelist (One World or None: a Report to the Public on the Full Meaning of the Atomic Bomb).Dexter Masters, 80, British Editor; Warned of Perils of Atomic Age. New York Times. Retrieved 10 May 2024. Nell O'Day, 79, American equestrian and actress, heart attack.The Heroines – Nell O'Day. b-westerns.com. Retrieved 14 April 2024. David Stewart Porter, 79, American district judge (United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio).

6 Eduardo Balderas, 81, Mexican-born American translator for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.Eduardo Balderas. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Retrieved 10 May. Hans von Campenhausen, 85, Baltic German Protestant theologian. Mario Galento, 73, American actor and professional wrestler. Jim Hurtubise, 56, American race car driver, winner of 1966 Atlanta 500, heart attack.James E. Hurtubise, Race-Car Driver, 56. New York Times. Retrieved 14 April 2024. Illingworth "Buck" Kerr, 83, Canadian painter, known for landscape paintings of Saskatchewan and Alberta prairies and foothills, suicide.Illingworth Kerr fonds. University of Calgary. Retrieved 10 May 2024. Elizabeth Duncan Koontz, 69, American figure in civil rights and women's movement, director of the United States Women's Bureau, heart attack.Elizabeth Koontz, 69, Dies; Led Teachers' Union. New York Times. Retrieved 10 May 2024. Sir Edmund Leach, 78, British social anthropologist, president of the Royal Anthropological Institute.Fields of Study: Sir Edmund Leach, the Social Anthropologist. King's College, Cambridge. Retrieved 29 March 2024. Elisa Lispector, 77, Brazilian novelist (Além da Fronteira, O Muro de Pedras).Elisa Lispector 1911–1989. The Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women. Retrieved 10 May 2024. George Mercer, 44, American rapist and murderer, executed.Man Executed in Missouri for Killing Waitress. New York Times. Retrieved 10 May 2024. John Donald Robb, 96, American composer and arts administrator.Composer / Administrator John Donald Robb. bruceduffie.com. Retrieved 10 May 2024. Kehar Singh, 53–54, Indian co-conspirator in the Indira Gandhi assassination, executed.Sikhs Kill 36 in Wake of 2 Executions. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 10 May 2024. Satwant Singh, 26–27, Indian co-assassin of Indira Gandhi, executed.Indira Gandhi assassination trial: Satwant Singh and Kehar Singh hanged. India Today. Retrieved 13 April 2024.

7 Frank Adams, 58, British mathematician, Professor of Astronomy and Geometry at Cambridge (Adams spectral sequence, Adams conjecture).Memorial Address for J. Frank Adams. University of Chicago. Retrieved 14 April 2024. Nigel Bloy, 66, English cricketer and RAF officer. Tom Brierley, 78, British-Canadian cricketer. Alfred Dieck, 82, German archaeologist whose work has been largely discredited.Imaginary People - Alfred Dieck and the Bog Bodies of Northwest Europe. ResearchGate. Retrieved 10 May 2024. Hirohito, 87, longest reigning Emperor of Japan (since 1926), cancer.Hirohito, 124th Emperor of Japan, Is Dead at 87. The New York Times. Retrieved 14 April 2024. Zoltán Jeney, 78, Hungarian Olympic ice hockey player (1936). Josef Moll, 80, Nazi German Wehrmacht and West German Bundeswehr officer, Inspector of the Army. Desmond Morris, 28, Jamaican Olympic high jumper (1980, 1984). Aslam Pahalwan, 61, Pakistani professional wrestler and world heavyweight champion.The Uncrowned King of the Wrestling World . Geocities. Retrieved 14 April 2024. Timothy Plowman, 44, American ethnobotanist, known for study of Erythroxylum, AIDS contracted from inoculations.TIMOTHY PLOWMAN, EXPERT ON COCA PLANT. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 10 May 2024. Stuart Rhodes, 78, English cricketer (Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club).Stuart Denzil Rhodes. CricInfo. Retrieved 10 May 2024.

8 Mieczysław G. Bekker, 83–84, Polish American vehicular engineer, contributed to design and construction of the Lunar Roving Vehicle. Ronald DiPerna, 41, American mathematician in nonlinear partial differential equations.Ronald J. DiPerna, Mathematics: Berkeley. University of California. Retrieved 11 May 2024. Torsten Johansson, 83, Swedish Olympic footballer (1936). Johnny Jordaan, 64, Dutch singer of levenslied. Junker Jørgensen, 42, Danish Olympic cyclist (1972). Olavi Kuronen, 65, Finnish Olympic ski jumper (1952). Kenneth McMillan, 56, American actor (Rhoda, Dune), liver disease.Kenneth McMillan, 56; Veteran Movie, TV and Stage Performer. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 11 May 2024. Bill Reynolds, 60, American Negro Leagues baseball player. Frank Sullivan, 90, Canadian Olympic ice hockey player (1928).

9 Bill Andrews, 80, English cricketer. Richard Barr, 71, American theatre director and producer, president of the League of American Theatres and Producers, AIDS-related liver failure. Biguá, 67, Brazilian footballer. Stan Callaghan, 72, Australian rugby league footballer. Øivind Jensen, 83, Norwegian Olympic boxer (1924). Walter Köhler, 91, German Nazi Party politician, Minister President of Baden. Marshall H. Stone, 85, American mathematician at Harvard (Stone–von Neumann uniqueness theorem), stroke.M.H. Stone, Acclaimed Mathematician, Dies at 85. New York Times. Retrieved 11 May 2024. Bill Terry, 90, American Major League baseball player (New York Giants). John K. Waters, 82, American general in the U.S. Army, heart failure.Gen. John Knight Waters, 82; Fought in World War II and Korea. New York Times. Retrieved 11 May 2024.

10 Chris Avram, 57, Romanian-Italian film actor William Joseph Browne, 91, Canadian lawyer, judge and politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1949–1953, 1957–1962). John Powers Crowley, 52, American district judge (United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois). Calvin DeWitt Jr., 94, American brigadier general. Yi Eungro, 84, Korean-born French painter and printmaker, heart attack. Kai Fjell, 81, Norwegian painter. Karl Geiringer, 89, Austrian-American musicologist and biographer of composers, complications from a fall. Valentin Glushko, 80, Soviet engineer, program manager of the Soviet space program.Valentin Petrovich Glushko. Britannica. Retrieved 11 May 2024. Royal Little, 92, American founder and chair of Textron.Royal Little, Pioneer in Forming Of Conglomerates, Is Dead at 92. New York Times. Retrieved 11 May 2024. Herbert Morrison, 83, American radio journalist, voice of the Hindenburg disaster.Herbert Morrison; Radio Reporter at Hindenburg Crash. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 11 May 2024. Peder Puck, 96, Norwegian footballer. Donald Voorhees, 85, American conductor and composer. Colin Winchester, 55, assistant commissioner in the Australian Federal Police, assassinated.COLIN WINCHESTER MURDER. National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. Retrieved 11 May 2024.

11 Sir George Abell, 84, English civil servant and cricketer, director of the Bank of England.George Abell. cricinfo. Retrieved 11 May 2024. Adil Candemir, 71–72, Turkish Olympic wrestler (1948). Hai Deng, 86, Chinese Buddhist monk and martial artist, emeritus abbot of Shaolin Temple. Michael Forrestal, 61, American National Security Advisor of President John F. Kennedy, aneurysm. August Koern, 88, Estonian statesman and diplomat.Diplomat August Koern 120 Ray Moore, 47, British broadcaster, host of early morning show on BBC Radio 2, throat cancer.Ray Moore - Broadcasting Legend. https://andywalmsley.blogspot.com/. Retrieved 11 May 2024. José Bustamante y Rivero, 94, Peruvian politician and diplomat, President of Peru.JOSE BUSTAMANTE Y RIVERO DIES. Washington Post. Retrieved 11 May 2024. Jackie Wright, 84, Northern Irish comedian, bald-headed sidekick of Benny Hill.

12 Clise Dudley, 85, American MLB player (Brooklyn Robins, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates). Harold Hubble, 84, English cricketer. Irena Milnikiel, 55, Polish Olympic swimmer (1952).