Deaths in October 1989

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.Eric Ball. Musikverlag GmbH. Retrieved 5 Nov 2024. Manuel Clouthier, 55, Mexican politician, traffic collision.Manuel Clouthier, Who Sought Mexican Presidency, Dies in Crash. New York Times. Retrieved 5 Nov 2024. Carlo Dapporto, 78, Italian film actor.Carlo Dapporto. WorldCat. Retrieved 5 Nov 2024. Ian Keith, 81, Scottish peer and nobleman.Mr James Keith. UK Parliament (Hansard). Retrieved 5 Nov 2024. David Lindesay-Bethune, 63, British soldier and hereditary peer.Mr David Lindesay-Bethune. UK Parliament (Hansard). Retrieved 5 Nov 2024. Witold Rowicki, 75, Polish conductor (Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra).Witold Rowicki, 75, Polish Conductor, Dies. New York Times. Retrieved 5 Nov 2024. Frank Sachse, 72, American football and basketball player.

2 Paola Barbara, 77, Italian film actress (White Amazons).Paola Barbara. WorldCat. Retrieved 5 Nov 2024. Aubrey Boomer, 91, American golfer, stroke. Vittorio Caprioli, 68, Italian actor and director, heart attack.Caprioli, Vittorio, 1921-1989. snac. Retrieved 5 Nov 2024. Cousin Joe, 81, American blues and jazz singer.Cousin Joe. WorldCat. Retrieved 5 Nov 2024. Gregory Marshall, 50, American actor.Gregory Marshall. WorldCat. Retrieved 5 Nov 2024. Jesús Emilio Jaramillo Monsalve, 73, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Arauca, shot.Vatican recognises martyrdom of Colombian bishop. Independent Catholic News. Retrieved 5 Nov 2024.

3 James Bickford, 76, American Olympic bobsledder (1936, 1948, 1952, 1956). John Eugene Cay Jr., 74, American author (Ward Allen: Savannah River Market Hunter), brain tumour.Barbara and Jack Cay Fund. Georgia Historical Society. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024. David H. Geiger, 53–54, American engineer, heart attack.David Geiger, Engineer, 54, Dies. New York Times. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024. Mehmut Şevket Karman, 77, Turkish Olympic skier (1936). Bahadur Khan, 58, Indian sarod player and film score composer.Bahadur Khan. WorldCat. Retrieved 5 Nov 2024. Andrée Lafayette, 86, French actress (Trilby).Andrée Lafayette. WorldCat. Retrieved 5 Nov 2024. Dennis McGee, 96, American Cajun musician.Dennis McGee Is Dead; Cajun Fiddler Was 96. New York Times. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024. Yvonne Sylvain, 82, Haitian physician.Yvonne Sylvain, médecin (1907-1989). Haïtiennes (in French). Retrieved 5 Nov 2024. Ray Thomas, 63, Australian rules footballer. Del Wood, 69, American pianist, stroke.Gravestone: Del Wood 3.10.89. Mount Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024. Norman Yardley, 74, English test cricketer, captain of England, stroke.Norman Yardley. Wisden. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024.

4 Michael Barton Akehurst, 48–49, British lawyer and author.Michael Barton Akehurst. WorldCat. Retrieved 5 Nov 2024. Thomas Canning, 77, American composer and music educator.Gravestone: Thomas S. Canning. East Oak Grove Cemetery, Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia, USA (year of death only). Retrieved 5 Nov 2024. Graham Chapman, 48, British actor, comedian and writer (Monty Python), tonsil cancer. Laura Combes, 35, American bodybuilder, alcohol poisoning.Gravestone: Laura Combes 4.10.89. Myrtle Hill Memorial Park, Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida, USA (year of death only). Retrieved 5 Nov 2024. Frederic de Hoffmann, 65, Austrian-born American nuclear physicist (Manhattan Project), AIDS from blood transfusion.Frederic de Hoffmann, 65, Dies; Physicist and Salk Institute Chief. New York Times. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024. Moisés Giroldi, 39, Panamanian military commander (1989 Panamanian coup attempt), executed.Panamanian Captain Buried Amid Reports of Executions. New York Times. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024. Ramchandra Purushottam Marathe, 64, Indian music director, singer and actor. Edmund Osmańczyk, 76, Polish writer.Edmund Osmańczyk. WorldCat. Retrieved 5 Nov 2024. Betsy King Ross, 68, American actress, anthropologist and author.Betsy King Ross. WorldCat. Retrieved 5 Nov 2024. Lutero Vargas, 77, Brazilian physician, diplomat and politician, ambassador to Nicaragua.Lutero Vargas. WorldCat. Retrieved 5 Nov 2024.

5 Robert T. Ashmore, 85, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1953-1969), heart ailments and pneumonia. Lawrence Dundas, 80, British hereditary peer.Mr Lawrence Dundas. UK Parliament. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024. Ernesto Formenti, 62, Italian Olympic boxer (1948). John Layton, 77, American Olympic sports shooter (1948). Noël-Noël, 92, French actor and screenwriter. Big Wilson, 65, American radio personality, heart attack.Big Wilson Dies at 65; Ex-NBC Disk Jockey. New York Times. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024.

6 Patricia Cockburn, 75, Irish writer and artist, cancer.Cockburn, Patricia Evangeline Anne. Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024. Bette Davis, 81, American actress (Dangerous, Jezebel), cancer. Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, 69, French actor and director, ruptured aneurysm. Gaston Fayaud, 75, French Olympic boxer (1932, 1936). Howard Garns, 84, American architect, creator of Sudoku, cancer. Paul Henry, 77, Belgian footballer. 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.Seiler, Reinhard (Jagdgeschwader 54). Traces of War. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024. Jack Turner, 100, Canadian war photographer.Fonds Acc2767 - Jack Turner fonds : [1908-1975; predominant 1908-1919]. Archives Council of Prince Edward Island. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024.

7 Kurt Carlsen, 75, Danish-born American sea-captain (SS Flying Enterprise).Henrik K. Carlsen, 75, A Heroic Sea Captain. New York Times. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024. Keith Elliott, 73, New Zealand soldier, Victoria Cross recipient, cancer.Story: Elliott, Keith. Te Ara - Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024. Josep Espada, 77, Spanish footballer. Forrest McPherson, 77, American NFL player (Chicago Bears, Philadelphia Eagles, Green Bay Packers). Aleksanteri Saarvala, 76, Finnish Olympic gymnast (1936, 1948). Earl Thomas, 74, American basketball player.

8 Genki Abe, 95, Japanese lawyer, police bureaucrat and cabinet minister.Genki Abe. WorldCat. Retrieved 6 Nov 2024. Onest Conley, 82, American film actor (Racing Luck).Gravestone: Onest Anatone Conley 8.10.89. Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside, Riverside County, California, USA. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024. Anne Dawson, 92, British secret agent in World War I.Anne Dawson. WorldCat. Retrieved 6 Nov 2024. Gerry Denoird, 87, Canadian NHL player (Toronto St. Pats). Alwyn Harris, Royal Ulster Constabulary superintendent killed by the Provisional I.R.A.New Garda chief’s father was killed in an IRA car bombing almost 30 years ago. The Irish Times. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024. Oscar Moglia, 54, Uruguayan basketballer and Olympic medalist (Club Atlético Welcome, Uruguay).Óscar Moglia. Olympedia. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024. Dagmar Oakland, 92, American actress. Edward Woods, 86, American actor (The Public Enemy).Obituary, Salt Lake Tribune, October 10, 1989.

9 Ernst Andersson, 80, Swedish footballer. Yusuf Atılgan, 68, Turkish novelist and dramatist, heart attack. Elizabeth Cadell, 85, British and Portuguese writer.Elizabeth Cadell. WorldCat. Retrieved 6 Nov 2024. Fernand Ciatti, 77, Luxembourgian Olympic boxer (1936). Herman Clark, 58, American NFL player (Chicago Bears). Sven Israelsson, 69, Swedish Olympic Nordic combined skier (1948). Penny Lernoux, 49, American author and journalist, lung cancer.Penny Lernoux, 49, a Reporter. New York Times. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024. Silvio Parodi, 57, Paraguayan football player and manager. Hassan Poladi, 44, Indian-born American writer (The Hazaras), liver failure.Hassan Poladi. WorldCat. Retrieved 6 Nov 2024.

10 Robin Hughes, 69, Argentinian-born British film and television actor, liver disease.Robin Hughes. WorldCat. Retrieved 6 Nov 2024. Murray McFarlane, 81, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1958-1962).

11 Percival Goodman, 85, American urban theorist and architect, designer of Synagogues, lung cancer. László Hidvéghy, 78, Hungarian Olympic speed skater (1936). M. King Hubbert, 86, American geologist and geophysicist (Hubbert peak theory), pulmonary embolism. Theodore Lorber, 82, American Olympic fencer (1932). Bill Phebus, 80, American MLB player (Washington Senators). Arnold Picker, 76, American film executive and mayor of Golden Beach, Florida, on Nixon's Enemies List, pneumonia.Arnold M. Picker Is Dead at 76; Film Executive Was Fund-Raiser. New York Times. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024. Paul Shenar, 53, American actor and theatre director (The Secret of NIMH, Scarface), AIDS.Aids at 25. San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024. Zeng Xianzhi, 79, Chinese revolutionary and politician.

12 Rolando Bacigalupo, 75, Peruvian Olympic basketball player (1936). Herb Boschen, 81, Australian rules footballer. Carmen Cavallaro, 76, American pianist, prostate cancer.Carmen Cavallaro, Pianist, 76. New York Times. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024. Joe Foy, 46, American Major League baseball player (Boston Red Sox), heart attack. Franco Luambo, 51, Congolese musician, AIDS.Franco, 51, Zairian Band Leader And Creator of the Soukous Style. New York Times. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024. Tommy Muldoon, 92, Irish footballer and Olympian (1924). Sim Var, 83, Cambodian politician, Prime Minister of Cambodia.Sim Var, Ex-Cambodian Premier, 85. New York Times. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024. Jay Ward, 69, American creator of animated TV cartoons (The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends), renal cancer. N. V. Krishna Warrier, 73, Indian poet and journalist.

13 Fred Agabashian, 76, American racer of midget cars and Indy cars.Names in the News - Oct. 16, 1989. L.A. Times. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024. Tony Castaño, 77, Mexican baseball player. Lud Gluskin, 90, American jazz drummer and bandleader.Ludwig Gluskin Dead; Music Director Was 90. New York Times. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024. Ed Kelaart, 88, Ceylonese cricketer. Munawar Ali Khan, 59, Indian classical vocalist. Merab Kostava, 50, Georgian dissident, musician and poet, car crash. Patrick McAuliffe, 75, Irish politician, member of the Dáil Éireann (1944-1969). Giuseppe Palmieri, 87, Italian Olympic athlete (1924). Herbert Wildman, 77, American Olympic water polo player (1932, 1936). Cesare Zavattini, 87, Italian screenwriter.

14 Martin Broszat, 63, German historian. Michael Carmine, 30, American actor, AIDS.Michael Carmine, 30, Stage and Film Actor. New York Times. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024. Lucy Doraine, 91, Hungarian-born silent-screen actress.Lucy Doraine. WorldCat. Retrieved 6 Nov 2024. Art Keay, 82, Canadian Olympic long-distance runner (1928). Scott Liebler, 29, American racing driver, racing accident.Names in the News - Oct. 17, 1989. L.A. Times. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024. René Petit, 90, French engineer and international footballer (Real Unión, France).René Petit. Olympedia. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024. Dov Sadan, 87, Israeli literacy critic and politician, member of the Knesset (1965-1968). Amancio Williams, 76, Argentinian architect.Dear Mr. Amancio (or the Architect). Canadian Centre for Architecture. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024.

15 James Lee Barrett, 59, American author, producer and screenwriter, cancer.James Lee Barrett, Award-Winning Scriptwriter, Dies. L.A. Times. Retrieved 7 Sep 2024. Paul Georgescu, 65, Romanian journalist, fiction writer and communist political figure.Paul Georgescu. WorldCat. Retrieved 6 Nov 2024. Lou Guisto, 94, American MLB player (Cleveland Indians).