Deaths in May 1989

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The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.

May 1989

1

• Jim Barclay, 55, New Zealand Olympic field hockey player (1960).^[1]
• Antonio Janigro, 71, Italian cellist and conductor.
• Sally Kirkland, 76, fashion editor at Vogue and Life, emphysema.
• Scooter Lowry, 69, American child actor (Our Gang). (body found on this date)
• Marion Mack, 87, American film actress (The General), heart failure.
• Edward Ochab, 82, Polish communist politician, Chairman of the Polish Council of State.
• Binyamin Sasson, 85-86, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (1951-1955).
• Muneyoshi Tokugawa, 91, Japanese army officer and politician.
• Douglass Watson, 68, American actor (Another World), heart attack.^[2]
• David Webster, 44, South African anti-apartheid activist, assassinated.

2

• Bennie Benjamin, 81, Virgin Islands–born American songwriter (Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, Wheel of Fortune)).
• James Crabe, 57, American cinematographer (Rocky, The China Syndrome, The Karate Kid), complications of AIDS.
• Veniamin Kaverin, 87, Russian writer and dramatist.
• Charlie May, 90, Australian rules footballer.^[3]
• Gerald Scarpelli, 60–61, American mobster and hitman (Chicago Outfit), suicide.
• Giuseppe Siri, 82, Italian cardinal, Archbishop of Genoa.^[4]
• Virgil Stallcup, 67, American MLB player (Cincinnati Reds, St. Louis Cardinals).^[5]
• Maki Yūkō, 95, Japanese mountain climber.

3

• Sheikh Abbas, 76–77, Algerian diplomat and writer, rector of the Great Mosque of Paris.
• Walter Brödel, 63, German Olympic fencer (1952).^[6]
• Gordon Dailley, 77, Canadian-born British ice hockey player and Olympic gold medalist (1936).^[7]
• Christine Jorgensen, 62, American trans-gender woman, actress and singer, bladder and lung cancer.^[8]
• Muriel Ostriche, 92, American silent-screen actress.
• Roland Robinson, 82, British politician (Member of Parliament), and diplomat (Governor of Bermuda).
• William Squire, 72, Welsh actor (Callan).
• John Wiethe, 76, American NFL player (Detroit Lions).^[9]

4

• Adnan Khayr Allah, 49, Iraqi military officer and Saddam Hussein's brother-in-law, Minister of Defence, helicopter crash.
• Chalam, 59, Indian film actor (Mattilo Manikyam).
• Morris Copeland, 93, American economist (flow of funds analysis).
• Larry Fleisher, 58, American attorney and sports agent, founded the National Basketball Players Association, heart attack.^[10]
• John R. Heller Jr., 84, American director of the National Cancer Institute, known for the Tuskegee syphilis study.
• Herschel C. Loveless, 77, American politician, Governor of Iowa, lung cancer.^[11]
• James McKeown, 88, Irish missionary in the Gold Coast (Ghana), founded the Church of Pentecost.
• Ashutosh Mukhopadhyay, 68, Indian writer.
• Jacques Perrier, 60, French Olympic cross-country skier (1952).^[12]
• Lydia Pasternak Slater, 87, Soviet research chemist and poet.
• Jean-Marie Tjibaou, 53, French New Caledonian politician, leader of Kanak independence movement, assassinated.
• Evelle J. Younger, 70, American lawyer, Attorney General of California.

5

• Joe Batchelder, 90, American MLB player (Boston Braves).^[13]
• Frank Easton, 79, Australian cricketer.^[14]
• Jón Ingi Guðmundsson, 79, Icelandic Olympic water polo player (1936).^[15]
• Hermann Hölter, 89, German Olympic modern pentathlete (1928), Nazi German army general.^[16]
• Sister Mary Leo, 94, New Zealand religious sister, trained some of the world's best sopranos.
• Wolfgang Neuss, 65, German actor and Kabarett artist, cancer.
• Jennifer Hodge de Silva, 38, Canadian filmmaker.
• Eddie Scharer, 87, American NFL player (Detroit Panthers/Wolverines, Pottsville Maroons).^[17]
• Peter P. Stevens, 79, American football player and coach (Philadelphia Eagles, Temple Owls).^[18]
• Naval Tata, 84, Indian industrialist and philanthropist.
• Stefan E. Warschawski, 85, Russian-born American mathematician (conformal maps, minimal surfaces, harmonic functions).
• Don Wheeler, 73, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1947-1955).^[19]

6

• Earl Blaik, 92, American football player and coach (United States Military Academy).^[20]
• Tally Brown, 64, American singer and actress.
• Adolfo Constanzo, 26, Cuban-American serial killer, drug dealer and cult leader, assisted suicide.
• Thakin Soe, 82–83, Burmese politician, founding member of the Communist Party of Burma.
• L. D. Weldon, 80–81, American track and field coach of decathletes.

7

• Lou Brock, 71, American NFL player (Green Bay Packers).^[21]
• Miranda Campa, 75, Swiss-Italian actress.
• Frank Cluskey, 59, Irish politician, leader of the Labour Party, cancer.
• Willie Covan, 91, American tap dancer, actor and vaudeville performer (The Duke Is Tops).
• Darío Echandía, 91, Colombian politician, acting president of Colombia, Colombian ambassador to the U.K.
• Earl J. Hamilton, 89–90, American historian.
• Mills Lane, 77, American banker (Citizens & Southern National Bank).
• Howie Moss, 69, American MLB player (New York Giants, Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Indians).^[22]
• John Whittet, 63, American officer in the U.S. Navy, drowned.

8

• Anders Andersson, 60, Swedish politician, MP (since 1983), plane crash.^[23]
• Hendrik Allik, 88, Estonian politician (Estonian Communist Party).
• Felice Mario Boano, 85–86, Italian automobile designer and coachbuilder (Fiat).
• Mariga Guinness, 56, English-born architectural conservationist, co-founder of the Irish Georgian Society, heart attack.
• Andreas Hillgruber, 64, German historian, throat cancer.^[24]
• Tony Lucadello, 76, American professional baseball scout, suicide by shooting.
• John-Olof Persson, 50, Swedish politician, twice mayor of Stockholm, plane crash.^[25]
• Ruggero Maccari, 69, Italian screenwriter (Profumo di donna, La Famiglia).
• Rudolf Uhlenhaut, 82, British-German engineer (Mercedes-Benz).^[26]
• Bob Webb, 71, New Zealand cricketer.

9

• Karl Brunner, 73, Swiss economist.^[27]
• Timothy Farrell, 66, American actor (Jail Bait, The Violent Years, Glen or Glenda)
• Alex Fraser, 72, Canadian politician, member of the B.C. Legislative Assembly.
• Fred Halsted, 47, American gay pornographic film director and actor, suicide.
• Enrique Lucero, 68, Mexican actor (Canoa: A Shameful Memory).
• Devereaux Mytton, 64, Australian Olympic sailor (1956).^[28]
• Kenneth A. Roberts, 76, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives (1951-1965), heart failure.^[29]
• Keith Whitley, 34, American country music singer and songwriter (When You Say Nothing at All, I'm No Stranger to the Rain), alcohol poisoning.^[30]

10

• Wilhelm Bleckwenn, 82, Nazi German Wehrmacht general.
• Joseph Brennan, 88, American ABL basketballer (Brooklyn Visitations).
• Richard Green, 52, American teacher, New York City Schools Chancellor, cardiac arrest due to asthma.
• Dimitar Ilievski-Murato, 35, Yugoslavian mountaineer, first Macedonian to climb Mount Everest.
• Stewart Perowne, 87, British diplomat and archaeologist of the Middle East.^[31]
• Kalu Rinpoche, 84, Tibetan Buddhist lama and teacher.
• Woody Shaw, 44, American jazz trumpeter and bandleader, kidney failure.^[32]
• Hassler Whitney, 82, American mathematician (singularity theory), stroke.^[33]

11

• Vin Brown, 67, Australian rules footballer.
• Howard Francis Corcoran, 83, American attorney and district judge.^[34]
• Johan Schouten, 78, Dutch Olympic wrestler (1948).^[35]
• Xiao Wangdong, 78, Chinese Communist revolutionary and a lieutenant general of the People's Liberation Army.

12

• Arthur Hart, 83, Australian rules footballer.^[36]
• Paul Haynes, 79, Canadian NHL player (Montreal Maroons, Boston Bruins, Montreal Canadiens).^[37]
• Nicholas Wilder, 51–52, American art dealer, complications from AIDS.^[38]

13

• James Buchanan, 81, South African cricketer.
• Jack Grout, 79, American golfer.
• Charlie Mutton, 98, Australian politician.
• Vera Neferović, 82, Yugoslavian Olympic discus thrower (1936).^[39]
• Bjørn Puggaard-Müller, 67, Danish film actor.
• Al Reiss, 80, American MLB player (Philadelphia Athletics).^[40]
• Tony Ries Sr., 75, South African Olympic wrestler (1948).^[41]
• Joanna Roos, 88, American actress and playwright.^[42]

14

• Marv Colen, 74, American basketball player.^[43]
• Nikifor Kalchenko, 83, Soviet politician.
• Joe Primeau, 83, Canadian professional ice hockey player.
• Hans Stubbe, 87, German agronomist and plant breeder.
• E. P. Taylor, 88, Canadian business tycoon, investor and philanthropist.

15

• Johnny Green, 80, American songwriter, conductor and pianist.
• Joe Hinson, 69, Australian rules footballer.^[44]
• Noel O'Brien, 56, Australian rules footballer.
• Kenneth Sellar, 82, English rugby union player and cricketer.
• Jack Shewchuk, 71, Canadian NHL player (Boston Bruins).^[45]
• Noriko Tsukase, 43, Japanese voice actress and singer, rectal cancer.

16

• Lamar Allen, 74, American college football player and coach, and Negro League baseball player.
• Fred Dean, 80, Australian rules footballer.^[46]
• Aharon Efrat, 78, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (1974-1977).
• Ralph Gibson, 83, Australian communist organiser and writer.
• Josephine R. Hilgard, 83, American developmental psychologist, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
• Théodore Strawinsky, 82, Russian-Swiss painter.

17

• Ed Brett, 75, American NFL player (Chicago Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates).^[47]
• Good Rockin' Charles, 56, American blues harmonicist, singer and songwriter.
• Hallvard Eika, 68, Norwegian politician, member of the Norwegian Parliament.
• Walter Gross, 85, German actor.
• Ota Hofman, 61, Czechoslovakian literature and screenwriter.
• Finn Juhl, 77, Danish architect, interior and industrial designer.
• Lucia Moholy, 95, Austro-Hungarian–born photographer and publications editor.
• József Remecz, 82, Hungarian Olympic discus thrower (1932).^[48]
• Specs Toporcer, 90, American Major League baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals), injuries sustained from a fall.^[49]
• Frank Vukosic, 74, American basketball player.^[50]

18

• Donald Hiss, 82, American legal secretary, younger brother of Alger Hiss.^[51]
• Hermann Höcherl, 77, German politician and lawyer, member of the Nazi Party.
• Ed McIlvenny, 64, Scottish footballer who represented the United States.
• Dorothy Ruth, 67, American daughter of US baseball player Babe Ruth and his mistress Juanita Jennings.
• Józef Szewczyk, 39, Polish footballer.^[52]
• Doris L. Thompson, 83, American politician.^[53]

19

• Anton Diffring, 72, German actor, cancer.
• Abel Herzberg, 95, Dutch lawyer and writer.
• John J. Muccio, 89, Italian-American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala, Iceland and South Korea.^[54]
• Gerd Oswald, 79, German director of American film and television, cancer.
• Yiannis Papaioannou, 79, Greek composer and teacher.
• Robert Webber, 64, American actor, Lou Gehrig's disease.^[55]

20

• Peter Evans, 38, American actor.^[56]
• Walter Heap, 67, American football player (Los Angeles Dons).^[57]
• Sir John Hicks, 85, British economist, Nobel Memorial laureate in Economic Sciences.
• Pavel Juráček, 53, Czech screenwriter and film director.
• Lyn Murray, 79, English-American composer, conductor and arranger of music, cancer.^[58]
• Warren G. Magnuson, 84, American lawyer and politician, President pro tempore of the United States Senate.^[59]
• Gilda Radner, 42, American actress, comedian, writer and singer, ovarian cancer.^[60]
• Mike Reinbach, 39, American Major League baseball player (Baltimore Orioles), car accident.^[61]
• Gōgen Yamaguchi, 80, Japanese martial artist, subarachnoid hemorrhage.

21

• Tito Colliander, 85, Finnish Eastern Orthodox Christian writer.
• Harry Cozart, 72, American Negro Leagues baseball player.^[62]
• Ena Stockley, 82, New Zealand Olympic swimmer (1928).^[63]
• Gerard Yantz, 71, American Olympic handball player (1936).^[64]
• Margot Zemach, 57, American illustrator of children's books, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.^[65]

22

• Les Jones, 66, Australian rules footballer.^[66]
• Inge Limberg, 65, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier (1956).^[67]
• Carlton Massey, 59, American NFL footballer (Cleveland Browns, Green Bay Packers).^[68]
• Rush Rhees, 84, American philosopher.
• Robert Richardson Sears, 80, American psychologist.^[69]
• Bettina Somers, 84, Canadian painter.^[70]
• Karen Ulane, 47, American airline pilot, plane crash.^[71]

23

• Ansa Ikonen, 75, Finnish film and theatre actress.
• Ursula Knab, 59, German Olympic sprinter (1952).^[72]
• James Kay Thomas, 87, American lawyer and politician, Attorney General of West Virginia.
• George Thomas, 61, American NFL footballer (Washington Redskins, New York Giants).^[73]
• Georgy Tovstonogov, 73, Russian-Georgian theatre director, heart attack.
• Earle Wilson, 88, American triple-jumper and Olympian (1924).^[74]

24

• S. K. Dey, 82, Indian politician.
• Guus Dräger, 71, Dutch footballer and Olympian (1948).^[75]
• Virgil Geddes, 91-92, American playwright.
• Tom Harper, 86, American football player and coach.
• Steve McCall, 55, American jazz drummer.
• Tripti Mitra, 63, Indian actress.
• Henry Prior, 90, South African cricketer.
• Cyril Shiner, 81, British painter.^[76]
• Butch Simas, 80, American NFL player (Chicago Cardinals).^[77]

25

• Brigid Bazlen, 44, American film, television, and stage actress.^[78]
• John Brewis, 69, Scottish politician, MP (1959-1974).^[79]
• Ben H. Brown Jr., 75, American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Liberia, cancer.
• Ab DeMarco, 73, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Jean Despeaux, 73, French boxer and Olympic gold medalist (1936).^[80]
• Soma Wickremanayake, 74, Sri Lankan educator and politician, member of the Ceylonese Parliament.

26

• Pierre Everaert, 55, French racing cyclist.
• Clifford Grainge, 61, English cricketer.
• Eugene Keogh, 81, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1937-1967).^[81]
• Wingate H. Lucas, 81, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1947-1955).^[82]
• Phineas Newborn Jr., 57, American jazz pianist, growth on lungs.^[83]
• Don Revie, 61, English international footballer and manager, motor neurone disease.
• Kazuko Takatsukasa, 59, elder sister to Emperor Akihito of Japan, heart failure.
• Albert Woodbury, 79, American composer (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?).^[84]

27

• Jerry Anderson, 35, American NFL footballer (Cincinnati Bengals, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), drowned.^[85]
• Emmet Lanigan, 79, Australian cricketer.^[86]
• Jess Sweetser, 87, American golfer.
• Arseny Tarkovsky, 81, Russian poet and translator.

28

• Wally Anderzunas, 43, American basketballer (Cincinnati Royals).^[87]
• Mike Corgan, 70, American football player (Detroit Lions) and coach (Nebraska Cornhuskers).^[88]
• George Hague, 73, American Olympic rower (1936).^[89]
• Camille Médy, 86, French Olympic cross-country skier (1924, 1928).^[90]
• Abbas Nalbandian, 39–40, Iranian playwright, suicide.
• Iván Palazzese, 27, Italian-Venezuelan motorcycle racer, racing accident.
• Baltasar Lopes da Silva, 82, Portuguese writer, poet and linguist, cerebrovascular disease.
• John M. Systermans, Belgian-missionary and priest.
• Muttathu Varkey, 76, Indian novelist, short story writer and poet.

29

• John Oliver Andrews, 92, British WWI flying ace and RAF officer.
• Nora Barlow, 103, British botanist and geneticist, granddaughter of Charles Darwin.
• John Cipollina, 45, American guitarist, alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency.
• George C. Homans, 78, American sociologist, founder of behavioral sociology, heart ailment.^[91]
• Joseph Van Ingelgem, 77, Belgian international footballer.
• Donald L. Katz, 81, American chemist and chemical engineer.
• Tariq Mehmood, 50, Pakistani military officer of Pakistan Army, parachute accident.
• Giuseppe Patanè, 57, Italian opera conductor, heart attack.
• Bob Waters, 50, American footballer, Lou Gehrig's disease.

30

• Jane Fauntz, 78, American swimmer and diver, and Olympic medalist, leukemia.
• Frank Holmes, 89, Australian rules footballer.^[92]
• James Harry Lacey, 72, British Royal Air Force fighter pilot in World War II.
• Thoreau MacDonald, 88, Canadian illustrator, graphic and book designer, and artist.
• Zinka Milanov, 83, Croatian operatic dramatic soprano, stroke.^[93]
• Claude Pepper, 88, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, stomach cancer.^[94]
• Les Peterson, 80, American NFL player (Green Bay Packers, Staten Island Stapletons, Brooklyn Dodgers).^[95]

31

• Heinz Hasselberg, 75, German cyclist and Olympian (1936).^[96]
• Willi Horn, 80, German Olympic sprint canoeist (1936).^[97]
• Edward Hubbard, 51, English architectural historian, ankylosing spondylitis.
• C. L. R. James, 88, Trinidadian historian, journalist and Marxist writer, chest infection.^[98]
• Owen Lattimore, 88, American Orientalist and writer.^[99]
• Frank Nolan, 73, Australian rules footballer.^[100]
• Raisa Orlova, 70, Russian writer and American studies scholar.
• G. Vanmikanathan, 88, Indian scholar and author.

Unknown date

• John Sutton, 60–61, Irish hurler.

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External links

• List of May 1989 deaths at IMDb