Deaths in February 1989
The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.
February 1989
1
Lillian Boyer , 88, American wing walker.[ 1]
James Drake , 81, British civil engineer, pioneer of the national motorway network.[ 2]
Blaze Foley , 39, American country music singer-songwriter, poet and artist, shot.[ 3]
Elaine de Kooning , 70, American artist.[ 4]
Grace Hayes , 93, American actress, singer, vaudeville entertainer and nightclub owner.[ 5]
J.C. Hoel , 84, American motorcycle racer, and founder of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally .[ 6]
Kenneth Morris , 71, American composer of gospel music.[ 7]
Erik Persson (footballer) , 79, Swedish international footballer and Olympian.
John Tootoosis , 89, Canadian First Nations leader.
2
Yuri Bogatyryov , 41, Soviet actor (At Home Among Strangers ), medication clash related to heart attack.
Marie Poland Fish , 88, American oceanographer and marine biologist.[ 8]
Vladimír Lulek , 35, Czech family murderer, executed.
Ondrej Nepela , 38, Czechoslovakian figure skater and Olympic gold medalist, lymph node cancer.[ 9]
Arnold Nordmeyer , 87, New Zealand politician, Leader of the Opposition.[ 10]
Nuno Oliveira , 63, Portuguese equestrian, horse trainer and dressage instructor.
Walter M. Scott , 82, American set decorator (The Sound of Music , Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ).
Marie Syrkin , 89, American writer and Zionist activist.[ 11]
3
John Cassavetes , 59, Greek-American actor (Johnny Staccato , The Dirty Dozen ), cirrhosis of the liver.[ 12]
Glenna Collett-Vare , 85, American amateur golfer, inducted into World Golf Hall of Fame .[ 13]
Betty Farrington , 90, American actress.
Joan Grant , 81, English writer of historical novels (Winged Pharaoh ).
Frank Hursley , 86, half of American husband-and-wife television screenwriting duo Frank and Doris Hursley (General Hospital ).
Nina Kirsanova , 91, Russian-born Yugoslavian ballet dancer.
Ebbe Langberg , 55, Danish actor and film director.
John McCauley , 89, Australian Air Force senior commander, Chief of Air Force , stroke.[ 14]
Louis H. Narcisse , 67, American religious leader, founder of Mt. Zion Spiritual Church, heart attack.
Lionel Newman , 73, American conductor, pianist and composer (Academy Award for Best Original Score for Hello, Dolly! ), cardiac arrest.[ 15]
Kim Sung-jun , 35, South Korean boxer (WBC light flyweight champion), suicide by jumping.
4
Kenneth C. "Jethro" Burns , 68, American mandolinist, half of comedy duo Homer and Jethro , prostate cancer.[ 16]
Medford Bryan Evans , 81, college professor and Conservative political activist.
Thorkild Hansen , 62, Danish novelist (Coast of Slaves , Ships of Slaves , Islands of Slaves ).
Trevor Lucas , 45, Australian folk singer (Fotheringay ), heart attack.[ 17]
Grandizo Munis , 76, Spanish Trotskyist politician.[ 18]
Ham Seok-heon , 87, Korean Quaker .[ 19]
Ferris Webster , 76, American film editor (The Manchurian Candidate , The Great Escape ).
5
André Cheuva , 80, French international footballer and manager (Lille OSC ).[ 20]
Roy Chicago , Nigerian musician and band leader.
Percy Hoskins , 84, British crime reporter (Daily Express ).
Emrys James , 60, Welsh Shakespearean actor.[ 21]
Rajinder Kaur , 57, Indian journalist and politician, shot by terrorists.
Joe Morrison , 51, American NFL footballer and coach (New York Giants ), congestive heart failure.[ 22]
Killer Joe Piro , 67, American dance instructor, kidney disease.[ 23]
Joe Raposo , 51, American composer, singer and pianist (Sesame Street theme , Bein' Green ), non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[ 24]
6
Suri Bhagavantam , 79, Indian scientist, vice chancellor of Osmania University , director of Indian Institute of Science .
André Cayatte , 80, French filmmaker (Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu ).[ 25]
Ron Field , 55, American choreographer and dancer (Cabaret ), brain lesions.[ 26]
Chris Gueffroy , 20, East German, last to be killed by use of firearms at the Berlin Wall.[ 27]
Netty Herawaty , 59, Indonesian actress (Rodrigo de Villa ).
Undine Smith Moore , 84, American composer and professor of music (Scenes from the Life of a Martyr ), stroke.[ 28]
Otto Schulmann , 86, German-born conductor and vocal teacher.
King Tubby , 48, Jamaican sound engineer, shot.[ 29]
Barbara W. Tuchman , 77, American historian and author (The Guns of August , Stilwell and the American Experience in China ), stroke.[ 30]
7
Eric Jay , 81, British Anglican priest.
Giuseppe Puca , 33, Italian criminal, boss of Nuova Camorra Organizzata , murdered after shootout.
Sixto Rovina , 28, Netherlands Antilles international footballer, heart attack during game.
Gilbert Simondon , 64, French philosopher.
William Campbell Steere , 81, American botanist, expert on bryophytes , director of New York Botanical Garden .[ 31]
Simon Virsaladze , 80, Georgian ballet, film and opera designer.[ 32]
Prince Wilhelm Victor of Prussia , 69, German nobleman and diplomat.
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Darnley Alexander , 69, Nigerian jurist, Chief Justice of Nigeria .
Irving Brown , 77, American trade unionist (Presidential Medal of Freedom ).[ 36]
Agustín Ramos Calero , 69, decorated Puerto Rican soldier in the U.S. Army.[ 37]
Wayne Hays , 77, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.[ 38]
Panini Ilangakoon , 69, Sri Lankan politician, Member of Parliament.
Dan Kelly , 52, Canadian-American sportscaster, lung cancer.[ 39]
Emily Kimbrough , 89, American author and journalist (Our Hearts Were Young and Gay ).[ 40]
Herbert Ryman , 78, American artist and Disney Imagineer (Sleeping Beauty Castle ), cancer.[ 41]
11
Charles L. Bolte , 93, United States Army general, vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army, stroke.[ 42]
T. E. B. Clarke , 81, British screenwriter (The Lavender Hill Mob ).[ 43]
Leon Festinger , 69, American social psychologist (cognitive dissonance , social comparison theory ), cancer.[ 44]
Roland Gross , 80, American film editor and television editor (None but the Lonely Heart ).
George O'Hanlon , 76, American actor, comedian and writer (The Jetsons ), stroke.[ 45]
Cecil C. Steiner , 92, American dentist (Steiner method of analysis ).
Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan , 83, ruler of Abu Dhabi.[ 46]
Katharine Lane Weems , 89, American sculptor (Dolphins of the Sea , Lotta Fountain ).
12
Thomas Bernhard , 58, Austrian novelist and playwright (Correction , Extinction ), heart attack.[ 47]
Jorge Romero Brest , 83, Argentinian art critic.
Attilio Dottesio , 79, Italian film actor and singer.
Pat Finucane , 39, Irish lawyer, murdered.[ 48]
Pandit Narendra Sharma , 75, Indian writer and poet (Satyam Shivam Sundaram theme ).
Bill Speer , 46, Canadian NHL ice hockey player (Boston Bruins ), snowmobile accident.[ 49]
13
Ernestine Barrier , 80, American stage, film and television actress (Project Moonbase ).
Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark , 79, member of the Greek Royal family.
Hans Hellmut Kirst , 74, German novelist (Die Nacht der Generale ).[ 50]
Hip Linkchain , 52, American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter (Change My Blues , That Will Never Do ), mesothelioma cancer.[ 51]
Richard Roud , 59, American writer on film, co-founder of the New York Film Festival .[ 52]
Geoff Selby , 23, Australian rugby league footballer (Illawarra Steelers , St. George Dragons ), car accident.[ 53]
Dave Tarras , appr. 94, Ukrainian-American clarinetist and bandleader, pneumonia.[ 54]
14
James Bond , 89, American ornithologist, curator of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Birds of the West Indies ).[ 55]
Vincent Crane , 45, English keyboardist (The Crazy World of Arthur Brown , Atomic Rooster ), suicide by drug overdose.[ 56]
Krishnarao Dhulap , 68, leader of Peasants and Workers Party of India .
Vincent Žuk-Hryškievič , 86, Belarusian politician, president of the government-in-exile of the Belarusian Democratic Republic .
15
Hüseyin Akbaş , 56, Turkish wrestler and dual Olympic medalist.[ 57]
Sita Devi , 71, Indian Princess Consort of Vuyyur , the "Indian Wallis Simpson".
Daniel Fox , 61, American polymer chemist (LEXAN ).[ 58]
Robert Kerns , 55, American baritone (Vienna State Opera ).
Lee E. McMahon , 57, American computer scientist (sed stream editor).
Sjafruddin Prawiranegara , 77, Indonesian statesman and economist, Prime Minister of Indonesia, heart attack.[ 59]
Sabo Bakin Zuwo , 54, Nigerian politician, Governor of Kano State.
16
Andy Black , 72, Scottish international footballer (Manchester City , Scotland ).[ 60]
Ida Ehre , 88, Austrian-German actor, theatre director and manager, heart attack.[ 61]
Mirza Abdul Halim , 23, Singaporean police constable, murdered.[ 62]
Paco Lagerstrom , 74, Swedish-American applied mathematician and aeronautical engineer (Caltech ).[ 63]
17
Rudolf Brill , 89, German chemist.[ 64]
Francesco Buccitelli , 66, Italian artist, mayor of Pacentro .
Ian Fraser , 78, British judge, member of the House of Lords, car accident.[ 65]
Lefty Gomez , 80, American Major League baseball player (New York Yankees ), congestive heart failure.[ 66]
Guy Laroche , 67, French fashion designer.[ 67]
Marguerite Roberts , 83, American screenwriter, blacklisted for not cooperating with House Un-American Activities Committee , arteriosclerosis.[ 68]
Hanne Sobek , 88, German international footballer (Hertha BSC , Germany ).[ 69]
18
John Bailey , 76, British screen and TV actor (The Forsyte Saga ).[ 70]
Mildred Burke , 73, American professional wrestler, women's world champion, stroke.[ 71]
Dixie Deans , 75, Royal Air Force sergeant, Second World War bomber pilot.[ 72]
Dina Halpern , 79, Polish-born American actress.[ 73]
Kathleen Hite , 71, American writer for radio and television (Gunsmoke , The Waltons ).[ 74]
19
Edward Beetham , 74, British colonial official, Resident Commissioner in Swaziland, Governor of Trinidad and Tobago.
Rick Burks , 28, American musician and actor (Blood Diner ), car accident.
Eric F. Goldman , 72, American historian, presidential advisor (The Open Mind ).[ 75]
Alec Merrison , 64, British physicist, vice-chancellor of University of Bristol , director of Lloyds Bank .[ 76]
Jack de Sequeira , 73, Indian politician, Leader of the Opposition of the Goa, Daman and Diu Legislative Assembly.
Rosa Slade Gragg , 84, American activist and politician.[ 77]
20
Julio César Chaves , 81, Paraguayan historian.
Percy Chen , 88, Trinidad-born Chinese lawyer, founding member of Hong Kong Bar Association .[ 78]
Erika Köth , 63, German operatic soprano.[ 79]
Anthony Leeds , 64, American anthropologist, heart attack.[ 80]
Betty Mars , 44, French singer and actress, Eurovision song contestant, suicide by jumping.
Aleksandr Medvedkin , 88, Soviet film director (Happiness ).
Manuel Rosas , 76, Mexican international footballer (Atlante F.C. , Mexico ).[ 81]
21
Robert Dorning , 75, English musician, ballet dancer and actor, diabetes.
Sándor Márai , 88, Hungarian writer, poet and journalist (Embers ).[ 82]
Otar Taktakishvili , 64, Georgian composer and conductor (Sonata for Flute and Piano , Mindia ).[ 83]
Alex Thépot , 82, French international footballer and Olympian (Red Star FC , France ).[ 84]
22
Roxanne Arlen , 58, American film and stage actress.
Harry Brand , 93, American press agent, credited with the fame of Shirley Temple , Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe , heart attack.[ 85]
Raymond Gower , 72, British politician, member of the House of Commons , heart attack.[ 86]
Abel Wolman , 96, American engineer, pioneer in sanitary engineering .[ 87]
Joan Woodbury , 73, American actress (The Eagle's Brood , Brenda Starr, Reporter ).[ 88]
23
David Mowbray Balme , 76, British professor, Principal of the University College of the Gold Coast .[ 89]
Ramito , 73, Puerto Rican composer (Qué Bonita Bandera ), suicide by gunshot.
Tsepon W. D. Shakabpa , 82, Tibetan nobleman and statesman, Finance Minister of Tibet, stomach cancer.[ 90]
Roy Tyner , 55, American NASCAR Grand National driver, gunshot.[ 91]
24
Sparky Adams , 94, American Major League baseballer (Chicago Cubs , St. Louis Cardinals ).[ 92]
Paul M. Bator , 59, Hungarian-born American legal scholar and Supreme Court advocate, Deputy Solicitor General of the United States .[ 93]
Norris Cotton , 88, American politician, US senator.[ 94]
Joe Harvey , 70, English footballer and manager (Newcastle United , Bradford City ).[ 95]
Margo Lion , 89, Ottoman-French singer and actress (Threepenny Opera ).
Paulaseer , 68, Indian preacher, 'faith healer'.
Mallica Reynolds , 78, Jamaican artist and religious leader (Shining the Spring ).[ 96]
William Thayer Tutt , 76, American ice hockey and figure skating executive.[ 97]
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26
Roy Eldridge , 78, American jazz trumpeter.[ 99]
Joseph Fenton , appr. 46, Northern Ireland estate agent, killed by Provisional Irish Republican Army (body found on this date).[ 100]
Reunald Jones , 78, American jazz trumpeter.[ 101]
Mouloud Mammeri , 71, Algerian writer, anthropologist and linguist, car accident.[ 102]
Clayton Robson , 87, Indian-born English first-class cricketer.[ 103]
27
Paul Oswald Ahnert , 91, German astronomer (Kalender für Sternfreunde ).[ 104]
Shiba P. Chatterjee , 86, Indian Professor of Geography.
Mauricio Garcés , 62, Mexican actor and comedian (Fray Don Juan , Modisto de señoras ).[ 105]
Kim Hyun-chul , 87, Korean independence activist and politician, Prime Minister of South Korea.
Konrad Lorenz , 85, Austrian zoologist and author (Man Meets Dog ), Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Nazi supporter.[ 106]
Sayuti Melik , 80, Indonesian political agitant (Proclamation of Indonesian Independence ).
Gilberto Molina , 52, Colombian emerald magnate and drug trafficker (Medellín cartel ), murdered.[ 107]
Joe Silver , 66, American stage, television, film and radio actor, heart attack.[ 108]
28
Richard Armour , 82, American poet and author.[ 109]
Bernard Beryl Brodie , 81, English-born American biochemical and neurochemical pharmacology scientist.[ 110]
Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira , 78, Brazilian lexicographer, translator and writer (Aurélio Dictionary ).[ 111]
Hermann Burger , 46, Swiss poet and novelist (Die Wasserfallfinsternis von Badgastein ), suicide.[ 112]
Everett E. Hatcher , 46, American Special Agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration , shot during undercover operation.[ 113]
Douglas Kendrew , 79, British army general and rugby union player (Leicester , England ), Governor of Western Australia.[ 114]
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya , 100, Indian yoga teacher.
Alton C. Parker , 81, Canadian police officer, first black Canadian detective.[ 115]
Pak Se-yong , 86, North Korean poet and politician (Aegukka – North Korean national anthem).
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