Deaths in December 1989
The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.
December 1989
1
- Alvin Ailey, 58, American dancer and choreographer, AIDS.[1]
- Michał Antoniewicz, 92, Polish Olympic equestrian (1928).
- André Charles Biéler, 93, Swiss-born Canadian painter.
- Billy Lyall, 36, Scottish singer, keyboard player, and flautist, AIDS.[2]
- Johan Melander, 79, Norwegian banker.
- Nikolai Patolichev, 81, Soviet politician.
- Bill Stout, 62, American journalist, cardiac arrest.
- Mitchell Ucovich, 74, American football player.
- William Vandivert, 77, American photographer.
2
- Harland Bartholomew, 100, American urban planner.
- Norman Davis, 76, New Zealand-British literary scholar.
- Keith Ewert, 71, Australian politician.
- Oldřich Hanč, 74, Czechoslovak Olympic speed skater (1936).
- Delmas Carl Hill, 83, American judge.
- Ruth Mary Reynolds, 73, American political activist.
- Richard Shannon, 69, American actor.
- William Taylour, 85, British archaeologist.
- Charles Zwar, 78, Australian-English musician.
3
- Sourou-Migan Apithy, 76, Beninese politician, president of Dahomey (1964–1965).[3]
- Mario Astorri, 69, Italian footballer.
- Ingmar Bengtsson, 69, Swedish musicologist.
- Connie B. Gay, 75, American country musician, cancer.
- Andreas Gulbrandsen, 83, Norwegian chess player.
- José López, 75, Spanish footballer.
- Boris Stepanovich Lukoshkov, 67, Soviet artist.
- Fernando Martín, 27, Spanish professional basketball player, five-time swimming champion, traffic collision.
- Jean-Paul Moulinot, 77, French actor.
- Alexander Obukhov, 71, Russian physicist.
- Carlo Rim, 86, French filmmaker.
- Nihal Silva, 35, Sri Lankan comedian and actor, shot.
- Paul Wei Ping-ao, 60, Chinese actor.
4
- Elisabeth Biebl, 74, German singer and actress.
- Gerald Carson, 90, American social historian.
- Frank Herzegh, 82, American inventor of the tubeless tire.
- Émile Janssens, 87, Belgian colonial official and military officer.
- Elwyn Jones, Baron Elwyn-Jones, 80, Welsh politician.
- Steve Lembo, 63, American baseball player.
- Colin MacKay, 81, Australian footballer.
- Kathleen Manners, Duchess of Rutland, 95, English aristocrat.
- Angelo Ruggiero, 49, American mobster (Gambino crime family), cancer.
- May Swenson, 76, American poet.
- Jim Vipond, 73, Canadian sports journalist.
5
- Juan Manuel Acuña, 68, Chilean footballer.
- Edoardo Amaldi, 81, Italian physicist, coined the term "neutrino".
- Benny Binion, 85, American gambler and criminal, heart failure.
- Nathan Huggins, 62, American historian.
- Per Hurum, 79, Norwegian sculptor.
- Sofiya Kalistratova, 82, Soviet lawyer and human rights activist.
- Li Keran, 82, Chinese artist, heart attack.
- Arno H. Luehman, 78, American general.
- George Machin, 66, British politician.
- Tadeusz Miksa, 63, Polish footballer.
- John Pritchard, 68, English conductor, music director of the San Francisco Opera, lung cancer.[4]
- George Selden, 60, American author.
6
- Joyce Howard Barrell, 72, English composer.
- Frances Bavier, 86, American actress, heart failure.[5]
- Cecil Cathers, 88, Canadian politician.
- C. L. Dellums, 89, American labor activist.
- Sammy Fain, 87, American composer, and musician (Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Incredible Mr. Limpet), heart attack.[6]
- David Hardman, 88, British politician.
- Rolf Johannesson, 89, German naval admiral.
- Marc Lépine, 25, Canadian mass murderer (École Polytechnique massacre), suicide by gunshot.
- Art Parks, 78, American baseball player.
- John Payne, 77, American actor, congestive heart failure.[7]
- Ćamil Sijarić, 75, Yugoslav writer, traffic collision.
- Gaston Van Roy, 73, Belgian Olympic sports shooter (1952).
7
- Haystacks Calhoun, 55, American professional wrestler, diabetes.
- Carlos DeLuna, 27, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
- Phil Dokes, 34, American football player, heart failure.
- Nellie B. Eales, 100, British zoologist.
- Hans Hartung, 85, German-French abstract painter and soldier.
- Lucien Le Guével, 74, French racing cyclist.
- Stuart Novins, 75, American television journalist, respiratory failure.
- Werner Ranck, 85, German general.
- Sirima, 25, English singer, stabbed.
- Vadim Spiridonov, 45, Soviet actor and film director, heart failure.
- Eric Sykes, 83, English cricketer.
8
- Albert Barrett, 86, English footballer.
- Szymon Datner, 87, Polish historian and Holocaust survivor.
- Max Grundig, 81, German businessman (Grundig).
- Mykola Livytskyi, 82, Soviet Ukrainian politician, president in exile (since 1967).
- Birger Malling, 105, Norwegian physician.
- Philip McNairy, 78, American Episcopalian prelate.
- Jack Rankin, 75, New Zealand rugby player.
- Stanley Steingut, 69, American politician, lung cancer.
- Lee Watson, 62–63, American lighting designer.
- Sir John Wedgwood, 2nd Baronet, 82, British industrialist and hereditary peer.
9
- Brett Austin, 30, New Zealand Olympic swimmer (1984).
- Edward J. Bloustein, 64, American academic administrator.
- Gunnar Bøe, 72, Norwegian politician and economist.
- Henry J. Degenkolb, 75–76, American structural engineer.
- William P. Ennis, 85, American general.
- Bob Friedman, 68, American football player.
- Basil Hayward, 61, English footballer.
- Takeshi Kaikō, 58, Japanese writer, esophageal cancer.
- Doug Scovil, 62, American football player.
- S. Somasundaram, 70, Indian musician.
- R. G. Springsteen, 85, American film director.
10
- Frank Baker, 71, English footballer.
- Sam Barkas, 79, English footballer.
- Loys Choquart, 69, Swedish jazz musician and bandleader.
- George Edmonds, 96, English footballer.
- Nico Gardener, 83, British bridge player.
- Frank Gulotta, 82, American judge, diabetes.
- Huang Zhen, 80, Chinese politician.
- Frederick Hedges, 86, Canadian Olympic rower (1928).
- Robin Hughes, 69, British actor, liver disease.
- Howard Lynch, 87, American football coach.
- Leland McParland, 92, American politician.
- Charles Potter, 82, English entomologist.
- Steve Sebo, 75, American sportsman and coach.
- Sir John Stevens, 89, British naval admiral.
- Harold Thomas, 75, Welsh rugby player.
11
- Agu Aarna, 74, Soviet Estonian chemist.
- Allez France, 19, American Thoroughbred racehorse.
- Carlos Almaraz, 48, Mexican-American artist, AIDS.
- John Buxton, 76, British ornithologist.
- Lindsay Crosby, 51, American actor, son of Bing Crosby, suicide by gunshot.
- Louise Dahl-Wolfe, 94, American photographer.
- Alfred Ferraz, 82, French architect.
- Gholamreza Ghodsi, 64, Iranian poet.
- Madge Miller Green, 89, American politician.
- Gösta Kriland, 72, Swedish artist.
- Howard Lang, 78, English actor.
12
- Nini Bulterijs, 60, Belgian composer.
- Sid Colin, 74, English scriptwriter.
- Helen Creighton, 90, Canadian folklorist.
- Bill Kennedy, 77, Scottish footballer.
- Fernand Le Heurteur, 84, French Olympic runner (1936).
- Suihō Tagawa, 90, Japanese manga artist.
13
- Lidija Auza, 75, Soviet Latvian artist.
- Paul Crowe, 65, American football player.
- Peter de la Mare, 69, New Zealand chemist.
- Michele Fanelli, 82, Italian Olympic runner (1932).
- Sammy Lerner, 86, Romanian-born American songwriter, cancer.
- Roderick Mackenzie, 4th Earl of Cromartie, 85, Scottish hereditary peer.
- Jack Murphy, 63, American politician.
- Stan Randall, 81, Canadian politician.
- Jack Showell, 74, Australian footballer.
14
- Reuben Bennett, 75, Scottish footballer.
- Robert D. Blue, 91, American politician, governor of Iowa (1945–1949), stroke.
- Ruth Dobson, 71, Australian diplomat.
- Ants Eskola, 81, Soviet Estonian actor.
- Gerry Healy, 76, British political activist.
- Seiichi Katsumata, 81, Japanese politician.
- Jock Mahoney, 70, American actor and stuntman, stroke.
- Frederick Nolting, 78, American diplomat.
- Laurie Pavitt, 75, British politician.
- Georges Poitou, 63, French mathematician.
- Andrei Sakharov, 68, Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident, and human rights activist, Nobel Prize recipient (1975), dilated cardiomyopathy.[8]
15
- Anders Andersson, 52, Swedish ice hockey player.
- Ben Barzman, 79, Canadian journalist and screenwriter.
- Emile de Antonio, 70, American documentarian, heart attack.
- Charles Holland, 81, British racing cyclist.
- Mikhail Kuznetsov, 76, Soviet flying ace.
- Philly Lutaaya, 38, Ugandan musician, AIDS.
- Slavko Mijušković, 77, Yugoslav historian.
- Arnold Moss, 79, American actor, lung cancer.
- Diptendu Pramanick, 79, Indian film personality.
- José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha, 42, Colombian drug lord (Medellín Cartel), shot.[9][10]
- Ali Şen, 80, Turkish actor.
- Vanja Sutlić, 64, Yugoslav philosopher.
- Edward Underdown, 81, English actor.[11]
16
- Robert E. Cox, 72, American optical engineer, emphysema.
- Margaret Barr Fulton, 89, Scottish occupational therapist.
- Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, 76, Argentine racing driver, pancreatic cancer.
- Beth Gleeson, 46, Australian politician.
- Charlie Long, 51, American football player.
- Silvana Mangano, 59, Italian actress, dancer, and model. Death from lung cancer, having been left in a coma by a previous surgery.[12]
- Umberto Micco, 73, Italian field hockey player.
- Gianni Poggi, 68, Italian singer.
- Aileen Pringle, 94, American actress of the silent film era.
- John Ramsbotham, 83, British Anglican prelate.
- Marguerite Rawalt, 94, American lawyer and writer.
- Päivö Tarjanne, 86, Finnish diplomat.
- René Tavernier, 74, French poet and philosopher.
- Lee Van Cleef, 64, American actor (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, For a Few Dollars More, Escape from New York), heart attack.[13]
- Robert Smith Vance, 58, American judge, letter bombing.
- Marjorie Westbury, 84, English actress.
- Priscilla White, 89, American diabetes researcher, heart attack.
17
- Gilbert Allart, 87, French Olympic hurdler (1924).
- Dame Helen Blaxland, 82, Australian writer and philanthropist.
- Edward Boyd, 72–73, Scottish writer.
- Georges Burou, 79, French gynecologist, drowned.
- Louis W. Dawson, 93, American insurance executive and lawyer.
- Zeb Eaton, 69, American baseball player.
- Gustav Engel, 96, German historian.
- Ghalib Halasa, 57, Jordanian writer.
- Neville Hawkes, 49, South African cricketer.
- Josephine Hill, 90, American actress.
- Little Sonny Jones, 58, American jazz singer, heart failure.
- J. Alastair Montgomerie, 74–75, Scottish businessman.
- Sir Charles Norris, 89, British naval admiral.
- Asen Panchev, 83, Bulgarian footballer.
- Eddie Rowe, 69, English cricketer.
- Luciano Salce, 67, Italian film director and actor.
- Albert Coady Wedemeyer, 92, American general, World War II veteran, and anti-communist ally of the Kuomintang.[14]
- William Wiswesser, 75, American chemist.
- Bobby Zahiruddin, 81, Indian cricketer.
- Miles Zimmerman, 71, American politician.
18
- Ewen Bain, 64, Scottish cartoonist.
- Brad Beckman, 24, American football player, traffic collision.
- Olwen Brogan, 89, British archaeologist.
- Esmond Unwin Butler, 67, Canadian diplomat.
- Bobby Capó, 67, Puerto Rican musician, heart attack.
- Peter Thomas Dunican, 71, British structural engineer.
- Arthur Haddy, 83, English recording engineer.
- Sir George Harvie-Watt, 86, British politician.
- Sydney Irving, 71, British politician.
- Enar Josefsson, 73, Swedish Olympic skier (1952).
- Jack Kilpatrick, 72, English ice hockey player.
- Bill Lindau, 86, American racing driver.
- Robert E. Robinson, 42, American lawyer, letter bombing.
- Jerzy Rutkowski, 75, Polish political activist.
- William Saltonstall, 84, American educator.
- Stanley Senanayake, 72, Sri Lankan police officer.
- Norbert Staudt, 82, Luxembourgian Olympic water polo player (1928).
- Jean Strauss, 77, Luxembourgian Olympic canoeist (1936).
19
- Herbert Blaize, 71, Grenadian politician, prime minister (since 1984), prostate cancer.
- Audrey Christie, 77, American actress, emphysema.
- Lois Darling, 72, American author and yachtswoman, leukemia.
- Halfdan Ditlev-Simonsen Jr., 65, Norwegian Olympic sailor (1956).
- Barthold Fles, 87, Dutch-American literary agent and author, diabetes.
- Stella Gibbons, 87, English writer.
- John Heddle, 46, British politician, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
- Floyd Jones, 72, American blues musician.[15]
- Óndra Łysohorsky, 84, Czechoslovak poet.
- Preben Mahrt, 69, Danish actor.
- Kirill Mazurov, 75, Soviet Belarusian politician.
- Rafaelito Ortiz, 75, Puerto Rican baseball player.
- Georges Rouquier, 80, French filmmaker.
- Lucien Spronck, 50, Belgian footballer.
20
- Irma Beilke, 85, German singer.
- Kurt Böhme, 81, German bass.
- Elisheva Cohen, 78, German-born Israeli designer and museum curator.
- Leslie Croom, 69, English cricketer.
- Gentry Crowell, 57, American politician, suicide by gunshot.
- John Currie, 79, Canadian Olympic skier (1932).
- William Henry Fitzjohn, 74, Sierra Leonean diplomat.
- Jiro Harada, 95, Japanese general.
- Donald L. McFaul, 32, American Navy SEAL, killed in battle.
- Vasily Pavlov, 94, Russian soldier.
- William W. Ullery, 92, American football player.
21
- Ján Cikker, 78, Slovak composer.
- Inma de Santis, 30, Spanish actress.
- Sir Hugh Elliott, 3rd Baronet, 76, British ornithologist and hereditary peer.
- Elsie Griffin, 94, English singer.
- Harry Hibbs, 47, Canadian musician, cancer.
- Aqil Hussain Barlas, 62, Indian lawyer and diplomat, heart failure.
- Rotimi Fani-Kayode, 34, Nigerian-English photographer, AIDS.
- Henry James Price, 70, Canadian politician.
- Ralph Schwamb, 63, American baseball player and convicted murderer.
- David Schwartz, 73, American judge.
- Soedjatmoko, 67, Indonesian politician and diplomat, cardiac arrest.
- Ethel Swanbeck, 96, American politician.
- José Zacarías Tallet, 96, Cuban writer.
- Dwane Wallace, 78, American aircraft designer.
- Edmund Warwick, 82, British actor.
22
- Samuel Beckett, 83, Irish novelist, playwright, and short story writer, emphysema.
- Howard Bowen, 81, American economist.
- Theodore M. Burton, 82, American Mormon general authority.
- Archie Campbell, 86, American baseball player.
- Giorgio Cavallon, 85, Italian-American abstract artist.
- Andrés do Barro, 42, Spanish musician, liver cancer.
- John Harrison Finger, 74, American walker.
- Harry Kraf, 82, American politician.
- Anthony MacGregor Grier, 78, British colonial administrator.
- Leslie Littlewood, 82–83, British trade unionist.
- Vasile Milea, 62, Romanian general and politician, suicide.[16]
- Gustavo Pizarro, 73, Chilean footballer.
- Massimo Serato, 73, Italian actor.
23
- Jeff Alexander, 79, American composer, cancer.
- Peter Bennett, 72, British actor.
- John Cavendish, 5th Baron Chesham, 73, British politician and hereditary peer.
- Alf Feebery, 80, English footballer.
- Milko Gaydarski, 43, Bulgarian footballer.
- Clem Hawke, 91, Australian politician, father of Bob Hawke, stroke.
- Shahzad Khalil, 45, Pakistani television producer, cardiac arrest.
- Lord Richard Percy, 68, English zoologist.
- Richard Rado, 83, German-born British mathematician.
- Lennart Strandberg, 74, Swedish Olympic sprinter (1936).
24
- Victor Fontana, 41, Romanian Olympic biathlete (1972, 1976), shot.
- Andor Kraszna-Krausz, 85, Hungarian-British publisher.
- Charles Moore, 11th Earl of Drogheda, 79, British hereditary peer.
- Ernest Nathan Morial, 60, American politician, heart attack.
- Florică Murariu, 34, Romanian rugby player, shot.
- Roger Pigaut, 70, French actor and film director.
- Ollie Savatsky, 78, American football player.
25
- Elena Ceaușescu, 73, Romanian communist politician, first lady (1974–1989) and deputy prime minister (1980–1989), execution by firing squad.[17][18][19][20][21]
- Nicolae Ceaușescu, 71, Romanian communist politician and dictator,president (1974–1989), execution by firing squad.[22]
- Gus Dahlström, 83, Swedish actor.
- Betty Garde, 84, American actress.
- Türkan Hanımsultan, 70, Ottoman princess and chemist.
- George Hotchkiss, 83, American basketball coach.
- Frederick F. Houser, 85, American politician.
- Joseph Livingston, 84, American journalist.
- Jean-Étienne Marie, 72, French composer.
- Billy Martin, 61, American baseball player and manager, traffic collision.[23]
- Riccardo Morandi, 87, Italian bridge designer.
- Robert Pirosh, 79, American screenwriter and director.
- Bo Randall, 80, American knifemaker.
- Wally Ris, 65, American Olympic swimmer (1948).
- Sir Geoffrey Robson, 87, British naval admiral.
- Domenico Scala, 86, Italian cinematographer.
- Andreas Schei, 87, Norwegian judge.
- A. J. Seymour, 75, Guyanese poet.
- Sir Charles Trinder, 83, British businessman and politician.
- D. K. Wilgus, 71, American musical scholar.
26
- Lennox Berkeley, 86, English composer.[24]
- Sir Walter Bromley-Davenport, 86, British politician.
- Sybil Cholmondeley, Marchioness of Cholmondeley, 95, British socialite.
- Buck Crump, 85, Canadian businessman.
- Denis Garrett, 83, British botanist.
- Doug Harvey, 65, Canadian ice hockey player, cirrhosis.
- Kōyō Ishikawa, 85, Japanese photographer.
- Paul Jennings, 71, English author.
- Roy Joiner, 83, American baseball player.
- Martin W. Kellogg, 84, American painter.
- K. P. Krishnakumar, 30–31, Indian artist, suicide.
- Jörgen Lehmann, 91, Danish-born Swedish chemist.
- James J. Manderino, 57, American politician, heart attack.
- Maryon Pearson, 88, Canadian socialite.
- K. Shankar Pillai, 87, Indian cartoonist.
- Gregorius Radvenis, 86, Lithuanian air force pilot.
- Shen Zijiu, 91, Chinese writer and politician.
- Mohan Singh, 80, Indian general and politician.
- Peggy Thorpe-Bates, 75, English actress.
- Heinrich Vogel, 87, German theologian.
- Seán Walsh, 64, Irish politician.
- William Wyatt, 96, British Olympic weightlifter (1924).
27
- Rodney Arismendi, 76, Uruguayan politician.
- Kurt Baum, 89, Austrian-born American singer.
- Maurice Dunkley, 75, English footballer.
- Finlay Hart, 87–88, Scottish politician.
- Petrus Johannes Idenburg, 91, Dutch jurist.
- Gene Johnson, 87, American sports coach.
- Dada Amir Haider Khan, 89, Pakistani communist activist.
- Gerard Maarse, 60, Dutch Olympic speed skater (1952, 1956).
- Meliton, Metropolitan of Chalcedon, 75–76, Turkish Eastern Orthodox prelate.
- Arthur Rhames, 32, American musician, AIDS.
- Walter Rose, 77, German footballer.
- David Shaw, 37, British painter.
- Branko Tretinjak, 82, Yugoslav Olympic fencer (1936).
- Ron Ulmer, 76, New Zealand racing cyclist.
- George William Weidler, 63, American songwriter.
28
- George Andrews, 85, Welsh rugby player.
- Solomon Birnbaum, 98, Austrian-Canadian linguist and paleographer.
- Marin Ceaușescu, 73, Romanian economist and diplomat, brother of Nicolae Ceaușescu, suicide by hanging.
- Earl Patrick Freeman, 57, Canadian professional wrestler, heart attack.
- Muriel Gammans, 91, British politician.
- Karl Humenberger, 83, Austrian footballer.
- Ave Kaplan, 90, American football player.
- Pavel Kurochkin, 89, Soviet soldier.
- Fred Lange-Nielsen, 70, Norwegian doctor and musician.
- Ricardo López Méndez, 86, Mexican poet and lyricist.
- Valentina Galaktionovna Morozova, 79, Soviet geologist and paleontologist.
- Hermann Oberth, 95, Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and aeronautic engineer.[25][26]
- Ian Parry, 24, British photojournalist, plane crash.
- Charles Rinker, 78, American lyricist.
- William Scott, 76, Northern Irish artist.
- Sharp Edge, 19, British Thoroughbred racehorse.
29
- Süreyya Ağaoğlu, 86, Turkish writer and lawyer.
- Adrien Albert, 82, Australian chemist.
- Scott Burton, 50, American sculptor, AIDS.
- Stanley Carnell, 86, Canadian politician.
- Saman Piyasiri Fernando, 31, Sri Lankan politician, murdered.
- Hap Glaudi, 77, American sportscaster, lung cancer.
- Guy Hershberger, 93, American theologian.
- Hiroshi Inoue, 57, Japanese botanist.
- Marion Keisker, 72, American record producer, first person to record Elvis Presley.
- Hubert Levigne, 84, Dutch artist.
- Rita Rait-Kovaleva, 91, Soviet literary translator.
- Endel Ruberg, 72, Estonian-Canadian artist.
- Ive Šubic, 67, Yugoslav artist.
- Saša Večtomov, 59, Czechoslovak cellist.
30
- Sten Abel, 90, Norwegian Olympic sailor (1920).
- Øyvind Anker, 85, Norwegian librarian.
- Charles H. Blosser, 94, American airport executive and politician.
- Augusto Del Noce, 79, Italian philosopher.
- Erich Kauer, 81, German footballer.
- George Kupka, 77, American politician.
- Etienne Leroux, 67, South African writer.
- Esther McCoy, 85, American architectural historian.
- Yasuji Miyazaki, 73, Japanese Olympic swimmer.
- Fumiteru Nakano, 74, Japanese tennis player.
- Madoline Thomas, 99, Welsh actress.
31
- Christia Adair, 96, American suffragist and civil rights activist.
- Ed Bogdanski, 68, American basketball player.
- Lilly Daché, 97, French-born American hatmaker.[27]
- Georges de Bourguignon, 79, Belgian Olympic fencer (1948).[28]
- Margaret Gordon, 50, British illustrator (The Wombles), bronchopneumonia.
- Clarence Hammar, 90, Swedish Olympic sailor (1924, 1928).[29]
- Ignatius Kilage, 48, Papua New Guinean politician, governor-general (since 1989).[30]
- Mihály Lantos, 61, Hungarian football player and manager.[31]
- Francis B. Loomis Jr., 86, American general.
- Wendell Mosley, 57, American football player.
- David Mackenzie, 67, Scottish trade unionist.
- Bendt Rothe, 68, Danish actor.[32]
- Gerhard Schröder, 79, West German politician.[33]
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