Deaths in June 1989 explained

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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.

June 1989

1

• Dharmasena Attygalle, 64, Sri Lankan politician.
• Emery Hawkins, 77, American animator.
• Aurelio Lampredi, 71, Italian automobile and aircraft engine designer.
• Alexis Lichine, 75, Russian wine writer and entrepreneur.^[1]
• Edward J. McShane, 85, American mathematician, congestive heart failure.
• Charles Vanden Wouwer, 72, English-Belgian international footballer.

2

• Guido Agosti, 87, Italian pianist and piano teacher.
• Smith Barrier, 72, American sports journalist.
• Ted à Beckett, 81, Australian test cricketer.
• Dick Mayer, 64, American professional golfer.
• Frederic Prokosch, 83, American writer.^[2]
• Takeo Watanabe, 56, Japanese musician and composer.

3

• Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, 86 or 89, Iranian religious leader, Supreme Leader of Iran, heart attack.
• Frank Laming, 80, Scottish Anglican priest.
• Wynne Samuel, 77, Welsh politician.

4

• Dik Browne, 71, American cartoonist, cancer.^{[3] [4]}
• Cecil Collins, 81, English painter and printmaker.
• Vernon Cracknell, 77, New Zealand politician.
• Franca Helg, 69, Italian designer and architect.

5

• Baby Huwae, 49, Dutch-Indonesian actress, model and singer.
• André Michel, 81, French film director and screenwriter.
• Maurice Philippe, 57, British aircraft and Formula One car designer.

6

• Richard P. Graves, 82, American director of the League of California Cities.
• Richard Kahn, Baron Kahn, 83, British economist.
• Michael O'Farrell, 40, American vice-president of Oakland Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, murdered.
• Ernest John Primeau, 79, American Roman Catholic bishop.
• Laxman Singh, 81, Indian last ruling Maharawal (Maharaja) of the state of Dungarpur.

7

• Donn Beach, 82, American adventurer, businessman and World War II veteran, liver cancer.^[5]
• Jorge Córdova, 76, Chilean international footballer.
• Jim Cristy, 76, American swimmer and Olympic medalist, financial manager for the Updike Company.
• William McLean Hamilton, 70, Canadian politician.
• Chico Landi, 81, Brazilian Formula One racing driver.
• Nara Leão, 47, Brazilian singer, brain tumour.^[6]
• Paulo Leminski, 74, Brazilian writer, poet and journalist, liver cirrhosis.
• George Roughton, 79, English footballer.
• Jane Weiller, 77, American golfer.

8

• Bibb Falk, 90, American Major League baseballer.^[7]
• Albert Spaggiari, 56, French criminal.^[8]
• Emil Verban, 73, American Major League baseballer.^[9]

9

• George Beadle, 85, American geneticist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine.^[10]
• Rashid Behbudov, 73, Azerbaijani singer and actor.^[11]
• Norman Brearley, 98, Australian commercial and military pilot, pioneer of Australian airline industry.
• James Horstead, 91, Anglican bishop of Sierra Leone and Archbishop of West Africa.
• Vladimir Kasatonov, 78, Soviet military leader and fleet admiral.
• Huang Yan, 76, Chinese politician.
• José López Rega, 72, Argentine politician, Minister of Social Welfare, diabetes.^{[12] [13]}
• Wolfdietrich Schnurre, 68, German writer, heart failure.
• Piotr Vasiliev, 80, Soviet realist painter.

10

• James Greenway, 86, American ornithologist.
• Martin Kottler, 79, American NFL footballer.
• Juan Bustillo Oro, 85, Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer.
• Richard Quine, 68, American actor, director and singer, suicide by shooting.^[14]
• Suleyman Rustam, 83, Soviet poet, playwright and translator.
• Joe Stripp, 86, American Major League baseballer.

11

• Ronald Eric Bishop, 86, British engineer, chief designer of the de Havilland Mosquito.^[15]
• Jack McMahon, 60, American NBA basketballer and coach.

12

• Eduardo Dualde, 55, Spanish hockey player and Olympic medalist.
• Nilufer Hanımsultan, 73, Ottoman princess.
• Lou Monte, 72, Italian-American singer.

13

• Fran Allison, 81, American television and radio personality, myelodysplasia.^[16]
• William Grasso, Italian-American mobster, murdered.
• Ray Sherry, 64, Australian politician, member of the Australian Parliament.
• Howard Simons, 60, American editor of Washington Post at time of the Watergate scandal, pancreatic cancer.^[17]

14

• Dame Zara Bate, 80, Australian fashion entrepreneur, wife of Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt.
• Pete de Freitas, 27, English musician and producer, motorcycle accident.
• Wei Guoqing, 75, Chinese government official, military officer and political commissar.
• Heber Austin Ladner, 86, American politician, Secretary of State of Mississippi, heart disease.
• Joseph Malula, 71, Congolese archbishop and cardinal.^[18]
• Yitzchok Yaakov Weiss, 87, Israeli rabbi, heart attack.

15

• Maurice Bellemare, 77, Canadian politician, diabetes.
• Roberto Camardiel, 71, Spanish theatre director and actor, bone disease.
• Victor French, 54, American actor and director, lung cancer.^[19]
• Judy Johnson, 89, American Negro League baseballer.^[20]
• Ray McAnally, 63, Irish actor, heart attack.^[21]
• Luis Ricceri, 88, Italian Roman Catholic priest.

16

• Helga Haase, 55, East German speed skater and Olympic gold medalist.
• Celia Lynch, 81, Irish politician.
• Antonio Román, 77, Spanish film director, screenwriter and film producer.
• John Westbrook, 66, English actor.

17

• S. David Griggs, 49, United States Navy officer and NASA astronaut.
• John Matuszak, 38, American football player and actor, accidental overdose.^[22]
• Pat Parker, 45, American poet and activist, breast cancer.

18

• Ennio Balbo, 67, Italian film, television and voice actor.
• Bobby Cross, 57, American NFL footballer.
• George C. Pimentel, 67, American chemist and researcher, intestinal cancer.^[23]
• I. F. Stone, 81, American investigative journalist, writer and author, heart attack.^[24]

19

• Betti Alver, 82, Estonian poet.
• Yevgeny Kabanov, 70, Soviet Naval Aviation major general.
• Andrey Prokofyev, 30, Soviet sprinter and Olympic gold medalist, suicide.

20

• Dona Drake, 74, American singer, dancer and film actress, pneumonia.

21

• Ron Bailey, 75, Australian international rugby league footballer.
• Lee Calhoun, 56, American hurdler, dual Olympic gold medalist.^[25]
• Aleksandr Safronov, 36, Soviet speed skater and Olympian.
• Edmond Sollberger, 68, Turkish-Swiss–British museum curator, scholar of the Sumerian language.

22

• Anton Dermota, 79, Slovene lyric tenor.^[26]
• William Fletcher-Vane, 80, British politician, member of the House of Lords.
• Robert Körner, 64, Austrian international footballer.
• Henri Sauguet, 88, French composer.^[27]
• Isaac Starr, 94, American physician, heart disease specialist and clinical epidemiologist.^[28]

23

• Michel Aflaq, 79, Syrian philosopher and Arab nationalist, complications from heart surgery.^[29]
• Werner Best, 85, German Nazi Party leader, organiser of the SS-Einsatzgruppen paramilitary death squads.^[30]
• Timothy Manning, 79, Irish-American Roman Catholic archbishop.^[31]

24

• Russell Meiggs, 86, British ancient historian.
• Hibari Misora, 52, Japanese singer and actress.^[32]
• Ghulam Raziq, 56, Pakistani hurdler and Olympian.
• Prince Vasili Alexandrovich of Russia, 81, Russian-American nephew of Tsar Nicholas II.^[33]

25

• Idris Cox, 89, Welsh communist activist and newspaper editor.
• M. A. Daniel, 35, Sri Lankan politician, murdered.

26

• Howard Charles Green, 93, Canadian federal politician.
• Walter Ralston Martin, 60, American Baptist Christian minister and author.
• Inger Stender, 76, Danish actress of stage, film and television.

27

• Sir Alfred Ayer, 78, English philosopher.^[34]
• Jack Buetel, 73, American film and television actor.^[35]
• Dorothy Bullitt, 97, American businesswoman and philanthropist.
• Michele Lupo, 56, Italian film director.^[36]
• Gregory McMahon, 74, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Stevan Vilotić, 63, Yugoslav footballer and manager.

28

• Karl Bendetsen, 81, American politician and military officer, U.S. Under Secretary of the Army.
• Joris Ivens, 90, Dutch documentary filmmaker.^[37]
• Mike Sebastian, 79, American NFL footballer.

29

• Kazuo Mori, 78, Japanese film director

30

• Hilmar Baunsgaard, 69, Danish politician, Prime Minister of Denmark.^[38]
• John Bloomfield, 87, Australian politician.
• Jim Dewar, 67, American footballer.
• Rostislav Plyatt, 80, Russian stage and film actor.

Notes and References

1. News: Frank J. Prial . Frank J. Prial . Alexis Lichine, 76, an Author and Expert on Wine . subscription . 23 March 2024 . . 2 June 1989 . D 15.
2. News: Frederic Prokosch Is Dead at 81; Novelist and Portrayer of Literati . subscription . 23 March 2024 . . 3 June 1989 . 1 11.
3. News: Dik Browne; Cartoonist Drew 'Hagar,' 'Hi and Lois' . . 6 June 1989 . 5 November 2021.
4. Encyclopedia: Dik Browne . Knudde . Kjell . . 6 August 2021 . . 5 November 2021.
5. News: Donn Beach, Restaurateur, 81 . subscription . 23 March 2024 . . 9 June 1989 . D 17.
6. Web site: Cronologia Nara Leão . Nara Leão Chronology . pt . 5 November 2021.
7. News: Bibb Falk, Ballplayer, Dies at 90 . subscription . 23 March 2024 . . 10 June 1989 . 1 12.
8. News: Constance L. Hays . Albert Spaggiari, 57, Mastermind Of Notorious Riviera Bank Heist . subscription . 23 March 2024 . . 12 June 1989 . D 13.
9. News: Emil Verban, 73; All-Star Infielder . subscription . 23 March 2024 . . 14 June 1989 . D 24.
10. Web site: George Beadle – Facts . . Nobel Prize Outreach AB . 2021 . 5 November 2021 .
11. With a Song in His Heart: Rashid Behbudov (1915–1989) . Sharifov . Azad . . 5 . 4 . Winter 1997 . 5 November 2021.
12. Web site: Jose Lopez Rega . historiadelpais.com.ar . https://web.archive.org/web/20130627194140/https://www.historiadelpais.com.ar/rega.htm . 27 June 2013 . es . 5 November 2021.
13. Encyclopedia: José López Rega Argentine leader . ((The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica)) . Encyclopædia Britannica . 13 October 2021 . 5 November 2021.
14. News: Richard Quine, 68, Actor Who Directed 'Murder Your Wife' . subscription . 23 March 2024 . . 14 June 1989 . D 24.
15. News: Ronald Bishop, Plane Designer, 86 . subscription . 23 March 2024 . . 14 June 1989 . D 25.
16. News: Fran Allison, 81, the Human Side Of 'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' Show . Anderson . Susan Heller . . 14 June 1989 . D24 . 6 November 2021.
17. News: Alex S. Jones . Alex S. Jones . Howard Simons, Dies at Age 60, An Ex-Editor at Washington Post . subscription . 23 March 2024 . . 14 June 1989 . D 25.
18. Web site: Joseph-Albert Cardinal Malula . . 11 July 2021 . David M. Cheney . 6 November 2021.
19. News: Victor French, 54, Actor on TV . subscription . 6 November 2021 . . 16 June 1989 . A 28.
20. News: Al Harvin . Judy Johnson, a Star 3d Baseman In the Negro Leagues, Dies at 89 . subscription . 23 March 2024 . . 17 June 1989 . 1 29.
21. News: Ray McAnally, Irish Character Actor . . 17 June 1989 . 6 November 2021.
22. News: John Matuszak, 38, A Former Lineman For N.F.L. Raiders . subscription . 4 July 2023 . . 19 June 1989 . D 13.
23. News: Glenn Fowler . George C. Pimentel; Chemist Who Led Mars Study Was 67 . subscription . 23 March 2024 . . 21 June 1989 . D 25.
24. News: Peter B. Flint . I. F. Stone, Iconoclast of Journalism, Is Dead at 81 . subscription . 23 March 2024 . . 19 June 1989 . D 13.
25. Web site: Lee Calhoun . Olympedia . OlyMADMen . 5 November 2021.
26. News: Anton Dermota, Tenor In Mozart, Dead at 79 . subscription . 23 March 2024 . . 27 June 1989 . B 5.
27. News: Bernard Holland . Bernard Holland . Henri Sauguet, French Composer On the Satie Model, Is Dead at 88 . subscription . 23 March 2024 . . 23 June 1989 . A 11.
28. News: Dr. Isaac Starr, 94, Heart Researcher, Dies . subscription . 23 March 2024 . . 28 June 1989 . D 21.
29. News: Michel Aflaq Dies in Paris at 79; Founder of Iraq's Baathist Party . subscription . 23 March 2024 . . 25 June 1989 . 1 26.
30. Web site: Werner Best . Holocaust Historical Society . 2018 . 7 November 2021.
31. News: Timothy Cardinal Manning, 79; Guided Los Angeles Archdiocese . subscription . 23 March 2024 . . 24 June 1989 . 1 29.
32. News: Popular Singer's Funeral Held Amid Nationwide Mourning . 22 July 1989 . . 7 November 2021.
33. News: Vasili Romanov, 81, Nephew of Last Czar . . AP . 28 June 1989 . D21 . 7 November 2021.
34. Encyclopedia: Macdonald . Graham . Krishna . Nakul . Alfred Jules Ayer . . 7 May 2005 . Fall 2018 . Zalta . Edward N. . Edward N. Zalta . . 1095-5054 . 7 November 2021.
35. Web site: Jack Buetel . https://web.archive.org/web/20210303190846/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba1305a76 . dead . 3 March 2021 . . Films, TV and people . 7 November 2021.
36. Web site: Michele Lupo . . 7 November 2021.
37. News: Peter B. Flint . Joris Ivens, 90, Dutch Documentary Film Maker . subscription . 23 March 2024 . . 30 June 1989 . A 14.
38. Web site: Hilmar Baunsgaard . da . www.gravsted.dk . 7 November 2021.