Deaths in March 1989
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The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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.
March 1989
1
- Annie Ackerman, 75, American political activist, cancer.
- Mukul Dey, 93, Indian pioneer of drypoint-etching.
- Vasantdada Patil, 71, Indian politician, Governor of Rajasthan.
- Odie Payne, 62, American Chicago blues drummer.
- Frank W. Preston, 92, English-American engineer, ecologist and conservationist.
- Mark M. Ravitch, 78, American surgeon, colon and prostate cancer.[1]
2
- John Bryans, British actor.
- Tamás Kertész, 59, Hungarian international footballer.
3
- Ned McGehee, 81, American football and baseball coach.
- Richard B. Morris, 84, American historian, melanoma.[2]
- Dong Qiwu, 89, Chinese general in the People's Liberation Army.
- Pauline Toner, 53, Australian politician, cabinet minister Victorian Parliament, cancer.
4
- Tiny Grimes, 72, American jazz and R&B guitarist, meningitis.
- E. Wilson Lyon, 84, American diplomatic historian, president of Pomona College.[3]
- Edward Makuka Nkoloso, 69–70, member of Zambian resistance movement.
- Randolph Rose, 87, New Zealand middle-distance runner.
- Lewis K. Sillcox, 102, American president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
5
- Prithvi Singh Azad, 96, Indian independence activist.
- Richmond Barthé, 88, American sculptor.
- Emory Hines, 76, American football and baseball coach.
- Ray Hunt, 70, Australian rules footballer.
6
- Harry Andrews, 77, English actor.[4]
- John Green, 67, American NFL footballer.
- Franca Marzi, 62, Italian film actress.
- Jim MacDonald, 71, Australian politician.
7
- Paul Boesch, 76, American professional wrestler and promoter, heart attack.
- Jean Colin, 83, English actress.
- Norman Saunders, 82, American commercial artist.
- Karel Velebný, 57, Czech jazz musician, composer, arranger, actor and writer.
8
- Elisaveta Bykova, 75, Soviet chess player and dual Women's World Chess Champion.
- Stuart Hamblen, 80, American singer, actor, radio show host and songwriter, brain cancer.[5]
- Robert Lacoste, 90, French politician.
9
- André Hornez, 83, French lyricist and screenwriter.
- Robert Mapplethorpe, 42, American photographer, complications from AIDS.[6]
- Sam Melville, 52, American film and television actor, heart failure.
- Hilda Strike, 78, Canadian track athlete and Olympic medalist.
10
- Selwyn Jepson, 89, English mystery and detective author and screenwriter.
- Maurizio Merli, 49, Italian film actor, myocardial infarction.
11
- William Challee, 84, American actor.
- James Kee, 71, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.[7]
- John J. McCloy, 93, American lawyer, diplomat, banker and presidential advisor, pulmonary edema.[8]
12
- Maurice Evans, 87, English actor, heart failure.[9]
- Sarge Ferris, 60, American professional poker player.
- John Baptist Lucius Noel, 99, British mountaineer and filmmaker.
- Chet Soda, 80, American businessman.
- Luigi Tosi, 73, Italian actor.
13
- Carl Dahlhaus, 60, German musicologist, kidney failure.
- James G. O'Hara, 63, American soldier and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, lung cancer.
- Fahrettin Özdilek, 90–91, Turkish military officer and politician, acting Prime Minister of Turkey.
14
- Edward Abbey, 62, American author, environmentalist and anarchist, complications from surgery.[10]
- Stephen Bechtel Sr., 88, American president of Bechtel Corporation.
- Francesco Paolo Bonifacio, 65, Italian politician and jurist, Minister of Justice, tumour.
- Zita of Bourbon-Parma, 96, last Queen of Hungary and Empress of Austria.
- Murder of Mark Kilroy, 21, American kidnapped and murdered in Mexico.
- Gladys Pyle, 98, American educator and politician, United States Senator.
15
- Henry Cass, 85, British director.
- Manlio Di Rosa, 74, Italian fencer and dual Olympic gold medalist.
- Charles Schultz, 73, American NFL footballer.
16
- Eddie Buczynski, 42, American archaeologist, parasitic infection.
- Jesús María de Leizaola, 92, Spanish politician, President of the Basque government in exile.
- Marcus Morris, 73, English Anglican priest.
- Charlie Vaughan, 67, English footballer.
17
- Beulah Ream Allen, 92, American nurse and physician, civilian physician during World War II.
- Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna, 69, Indian Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, consequence of surgery.
- Merritt Butrick, 29, American actor, toxoplasmosis complicated by AIDS.
- Jacob Pieter Den Hartog, 87, Dutch-American mechanical engineer.
- Farman Karimzade, 52, Azerbaijani writer, screenwriter, film director and film producer, heart attack.
18
- Ian Begg, 78, Scottish Anglican prelate.
- Harold Jeffreys, 97, British geophysicist, opponent of plate tectonics.
- Ryūzō Kikushima, 75, Japanese writer and film producer.
- Piet Kruiver, 51, Dutch international footballer.
- George P. Mahoney, 87, American politician.
- Duane Purvis, 76, American footballer and javelin thrower.
- Max Tishler, 82, American organic chemist, emphysema.[11]
19
- Alan Civil, 59, British horn player, liver and kidney failure.[12]
- Juliette Compton, 89, American actress.
- Ethel Hays, 97, American syndicated cartoonist.
- Charles Lamb, 88, British stage, film and television actor.
20
- Archie Bleyer, 79, American song arranger, bandleader and record company executive.[13]
- Alan Gifford, 78, American-actor who worked mainly in the UK.
- Nelson Lemmon, 80, Australian politician, played a key role in establishing the Snowy Mountains Scheme.
- Mogens Lüchow, 70, Danish fencer and dual Olympian.
- Dina Sfat, 50, Brazilian actress.
21
- Otis Douglas, 77, American NFL footballer and coach.[14]
- Louis Dupree, 63, American archaeologist and anthropologist, lung cancer.[15]
- Milton Frome, 80, American actor, congestive heart failure.[16]
- John Kenneth Hilliard, 87, American acoustical and electrical engineer.
- Samuel Sezak, 82, American football and basketball coach.
22
- Park Am, 64, South Korean actor.
- Ivan Antonov, 68, Russian sniper in the Red Navy.
- Wally Heider, 66, American recording engineer and recording studio owner.[17]
- Margaret Kidd, 89, Scottish legal advocate, editor and politician.
- Russ Meredith, 91, American NFL player and politician.
23
- F. W. S. Craig, 69, Scottish psephologist.
- George Marthins, 83, Indian hockey player and gold medalist.
24
- Robert Arundell, 84, British diplomat, Governor of the Windward Islands and Barbados.
- Arnett Cobb, 70, American tenor saxophonist.[18]
- Reuben David, 76, Indian zoologist.
- Edward P. Hurt, 89, American football, basketball and track coach.
25
- Sa`id Al-Mufti, 90, Jordanian politician, Prime Minister of Jordan.
- C. L. Anandan, 55, Indian actor and producer.
- Reginald Le Borg, 86, Austrian film director, heart attack.
26
- Albert Guérisse, 77, Belgian resistance member.
- Marina Ried, 67, Russian-German stage and film actress.
- Asbjørn Ruud, 69, Norwegian ski jumper, Olympian and World Champion.
- Lewis William Walt, 76, United States Marine Corps four-star general.
27
- May Allison, 98, American stage and silent screen actress.
- Malcolm Cowley, 90, American writer, editor, historian, poet and literary critic, heart attack.[19]
- Cláudio Santoro, 69, Brazilian composer, conductor and violinist.
- Jack Starrett, 52, American actor and film director, kidney failure.
28
- Nick Bremigan, 43, American Major League baseball umpire.[20]
- Fang Chih, 93, Chinese politician, diplomat, author and Kuomintang official.
- William D. Cox, 79, American businessman and sports executive.
- Ian Dalrymple, 85, British screenwriter, and film director, editor and producer.
- Richard H. Ellis, 69, United States Air Force general.
- Josiah Zion Gumede, 69, president of unrecognised state of Zimbabwe Rhodesia.
- Ippei Kaneko, 76, Japanese politician, finance minister.
- Madeleine Ozeray, 80, Belgian stage and film actress, cancer.
- Antonín Rýgr, 67, Czech international footballer and manager.
- Patrick Vallençant, 42, French alpinist and skier, pioneer in ski mountaineering, abseiling accident.
- Lockwood West, 83, British actor, cancer.
- Robert J. Wilke, 74, American film and television actor.
29
- Bernard Blier, 73, French actor.[21]
- Aleksandr Prokopenko, 35, Soviet international footballer, choking.
- Xiao Jinguang, 86, Chinese Commander of People's Liberation Army Navy, colon cancer.
- Nicolae Steinhardt, 76, Romanian writer, Orthodox monk and lawyer.
- Charles Taylor, 78, English businessman and politician.
30
- Alan Albon, 68, British anarchist, pacifist and publisher.
- Bill Chappell, 67, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, bone cancer.[22]
- Mike Sekowsky, 65, American comics artist.
- Arto Tolsa, 43, Finnish footballer.
31
- Piotr Belousov, 76, Ukrainian and Russian graphic artist and painter.
- Karl Fuchs, 68, German politician.
- Stan Penberthy, 82, Australian rules footballer.
- Francis H. Russell, 84, United States Ambassador to Tunisia, Ghana and New Zealand, heart attack.[23]
- Millard Sheets, 81, American artist and architectural designer.
References
- ^ Glenn Fowler (March 4, 1989). "Mark M. Ravitch Is Dead at 78; A Surgeon, Professor and Author". The New York Times. p. 1 34. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
- ^ Peter B. Flint (March 6, 1989). "Richard B. Morris, Colonial Historian, Dies at 84". The New York Times. p. D 13. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
- ^ "E. Wilson Lyon, 84, Ex-College President". The New York Times. March 24, 1989. p. B 5. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
- ^ Andrew L. Yarrow (March 8, 1989). "Harry Andrews, Actor, Dies at 77; In 'The Hill' and 50 Other Movies". The New York Times. p. B 10. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
- ^ "Stuart Hamblen, 80, Singer and Candidate". The New York Times. March 9, 1989. p. B 18. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
- ^ Andy Grundberg (March 10, 1989). "Robert Mapplethrope, Photographer, Dies at 42". The New York Times. p. D 16. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
- ^ "James Kee Dies at 71; Former House Member". The New York Times. March 14, 1989. p. D 27. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
- ^ "John J. McCloy, Lawyer and Diplomat, Is Dead at 93". The New York Times. March 12, 1989. p. 1 44. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
- ^ "Maurice Evans, Stage Actor, Dies at 87". The New York Times. March 14, 1989. p. D 27. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
- ^ "Edward Abbey, 62, Writer and Defender Of U.S. Wilderness". The New York Times. March 15, 1989. p. D 19. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
- ^ Michel Marriott (March 20, 1989). "Max Tishler Is Dead; Pioneer in Making Of Cortisone Was 82". The New York Times. p. B 10. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
- ^ Allan Kozinn (March 22, 1989). "Alan Civil, Hornist Of BBC and Beatles; Londoner Was 59". The New York Times. p. D 27. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
- ^ "Archie Bleyer, 79, Musical Director, Dies". The New York Times. March 21, 1989. p. B 8. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
- ^ "Otis Douglas, Coach, 77". The New York Times. March 23, 1989. p. D 22. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
- ^ Alfonso A. Narvaez (March 23, 1989). "Louis Dupree, 63, Anthropologist And Expert on Afghanistan, Dies". The New York Times. p. D 22. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
- ^ "Milton Frome Is Dead; TV Straight Man, 78". The New York Times. March 24, 1989. p. B 5. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
- ^ "Wally Heider Is Dead; Recording Engineer,66". The New York Times. March 25, 1989. p. 1 11. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
- ^ Stephen Holden (March 28, 1989). "Arnett Cobb, 70, a Saxophonist". The New York Times. p. B 7. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
- ^ Albin Krebs (March 29, 1989). "Malcolm Cowley, Writer, Is Dead at 90". The New York Times. p. D 25. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
- ^ "Nick Bremigan, Baseball Umpire, 43". The New York Times. March 29, 1989. p. D 24. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
- ^ "Bernard Blier, Actor, Dies at 73". The New York Times. March 31, 1989. p. D 21. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
- ^ "Bill Chappell Jr. Is Dead at 67; Served in the House for 20 Years". The New York Times. March 31, 1989. p. D 21. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
- ^ "Francis Russell, 84, U.S. Envoy to 3 Lands". The New York Times. April 2, 1989. p. 1 30. Retrieved March 28, 2024.