Deaths in August 1989

The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.

1

 * José Cândido de Carvalho, 74, Brazilian writer.
 * Don Heffner, 78, American Major League baseballer.
 * John Hirsch, 59, Hungarian-Canadian theatre director, AIDS-related illness.
 * John Ogdon, 52, English pianist and composer, pneumonia.

2

 * Friedl Behn-Grund, 82, German cinematographer.
 * Luiz Gonzaga, 76, Brazilian singer, songwriter, musician and poet.

3

 * Dominic Behan, 60, Irish writer, songwriter and singer, complications from pancreatic cancer.
 * Antonia Brico, 87, Dutch-born American conductor and pianist.
 * Egon Orowan, 87, Hungarian-British physicist and metallurgist.

4

 * Maurice Colbourne, 49, English stage and television actor, heart attack.
 * Wayne LaMaster, 82, American Major League baseballer.
 * Paul Murry, 77, American cartoonist and comics artist.
 * Larry Parnes, 59, British pop manager, meningitis.
 * Taghi Riahi, 78, Iranian officer in Iranian Imperial Army.
 * W. Wallace Smith, 88, American grandson of Joseph Smith Jr., president of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

5

 * John Kinard, 52, American social activist, pastor and museum director, myelofibrosis.
 * Max Macon, 73, American Major League baseballer.
 * Charles Richard Mulrooney, 83, American Roman Catholic bishop.
 * Stacey Toran, 27, American NFL footballer, car accident.

6

 * Beattie Casely-Hayford, 67, Ghanaian engineer, co-founder of Ghana National Dance Ensemble.
 * Don Clark, 65, American footballer, heart attack.
 * Nat Levine, 90, American film producer.

7

 * Mickey Leland, 44, American politician, anti-poverty activist, member of U.S. House of Representatives, plane crash.
 * Robert Stevens, 68, American television and movie director and producer, cardiac arrest.
 * Mira Trailović, 65, Serbian dramaturg and theatre director.

8

 * Irving Cottler, 71, American percussionist, heart attack.
 * Robert Kaske, 68, American professor of medieval literature, brain tumour.
 * Enrico Lorenzetti, 78, Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.
 * Brian Naylor, 66, British racing driver.
 * Bobby Oxspring, 70, British Royal Air Force officer and flying ace during World War II.
 * George Papp, 73, American comics artist.

9

 * Richard Alexander, 86, American film actor.
 * Antonino Pietro Gullotti, 67, Italian politician.
 * Kathleen Maguire, 63, American actress, cancer of the esophagus.
 * Wayne Sheley, 73, Canadian footballer.

10

 * H. Montgomery Hyde, 81, Irish barrister, politician, author and biographer.
 * George Ignatieff, 75, Canadian diplomat, Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations.
 * Pierre Matisse, 89, French-born American art dealer.
 * Alberto Sols, 72, Spanish biochemist.

11

 * Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo, 69–72, Pakistani politician, Governor of Balochistan.
 * Goldup Davies, 75, British swimmer.
 * Robert W. Levering, 74, American lawyer and politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
 * John Meillon, 55, Australian actor, cirrhosis.
 * Sonny Thompson, 72, American R&B bandleader and pianist.

12

 * Fred Dawes, 78, English footballer.
 * Lillebil Ibsen, 90, Norwegian dancer and actress.
 * Aimo Koivunen, 71, Finnish soldier.
 * Samuel Okwaraji, 25, Nigerian international footballer, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
 * William Shockley, 79, American physicist, Nobel laureate in Physics, eugenicist, prostate cancer.
 * Olga Villi, 67, Italian model and actress.

13

 * Hugo del Carril, 76, Argentine film actor, film director and tango singer.
 * Roldano Lupi, 80, Italian film actor.
 * Tim Richmond, 34, American race car driver, complications from AIDS.
 * Larkin I. Smith, 45, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, plane crash.
 * Carlos Yates, 27, American basketballer, shot.

14

 * Robert Bernard Anderson, 79, American politician, Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of the Treasury, throat cancer.
 * Ricky Berry, 24, American NBA basketballer, suicide by shooting.
 * Dove-Myer Robinson, 88, New Zealand Mayor of Auckland City.

15

 * Wolfram Eberhard, 80, German-born Turkish and American professor of Sociology.
 * Minoru Genda, 84, Japanese Navy flight officer, Japanese Air Self Defence Force general, and politician.
 * Elvy Kalep, 90, Estonian aviator, country's first female pilot.
 * Heinrich Krone, 93, German politician.
 * Dorothea Leighton, 80, American social psychiatrist and a founder of the field of medical anthropology.
 * Earl B. Ruth, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
 * Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos, 92, Greek Army Lieutenant General who served in World Wars I and II.

16

 * Jean-Hilaire Aubame, 76, Gabonese politician, Foreign Minister of Gabon.
 * Amanda Blake, 60, American actress, AIDS-related pneumonia.
 * Donald Friend, 74, Australian artist and diarist.
 * Bill Sayer, 55, English international rugby league footballer.
 * Erasmo Vera, 66, Chilean footballer.

17

 * Harry Corbett, 71, English magician, puppeteer and television presenter.
 * Fred Frankhouse, 85, American Major League baseballer.
 * Lawrence Stevens, 76, South African boxer and Olympic gold medalist.
 * Lin Tie, 84, Communist revolutionary leader and politician of the People's Republic of China.

18

 * Robert Buckner, 83, American film screenwriter, producer and short story writer.
 * Luis Carlos Galan, 45, Colombian politician, assassinated.
 * Matt Gordy, 79, American pole vaulter.
 * Yūji Koseki, 80, Japanese song and film score composer.
 * Imre Németh, 71, Hungarian hammer thrower and Olympic gold medalist.
 * Bert Oosterbosch, 32, Dutch racing cyclist, cardiac arrest.
 * Chrissie White, 94, British silent-screen actress.

19

 * Géza Képes, 80, Hungarian poet, translator and polyglot.
 * Alfredo Montelibano Sr., 83, Filipino politician, Secretary of National Defense and the Interior.
 * Wayne Moore, 44, American NFL footballer, heart attack.
 * Joseph A. Pechman, 71, American economist and taxation scholar.

20

 * George Adamson, 83, British wildlife conservationist in Kenya, murdered.
 * H. B. Halicki, 48, American director, writer, stunt driver, actor and filmmaker, accident while filming.
 * Joseph LaShelle, 89, American cinematographer.
 * Chuck Tollefson, 72, American NFL footballer.

21

 * William F. Bolger, 66, U.S. Postmaster General.
 * William Danielsen, 73, Norwegian footballer.
 * Raul Seixas, 44, Brazilian rock singer, songwriter and producer, cardiac arrest.
 * Phyllis Terrell, 91, American suffragist and civil rights activist.
 * Ted Wilks, 73, American Major League baseballer.

22

 * George Flahiff, 83, Canadian Roman Catholic Archbishop.
 * Robert Grondelaers, 56, Belgian road cyclist and Olympic medalist.
 * Charles Hill, 85, British physician and medical spokesman, radio speaker and member of Parliament.
 * Huey P. Newton, 47, African-American political activist, founder of Black Panther party, probable murderer, shot.
 * Krishnarao Shankar Pandit, 96, Indian musician.
 * Diana Vreeland, 85, American fashion columnist and editor, heart attack.

23

 * Erik Almgren, 81, Swedish footballer and manager.
 * R. D. Laing, 61, Scottish psychiatrist, heart attack.

24

 * Jacques Godechot, 82, French historian of the French Revolution.
 * Fermín Lecea, 83, Spanish-Argentine footballer.
 * Jimmy Littlejohn, 79, Scottish footballer and manager.
 * Feliks Topolski, 82, Polish expressionist painter and draughtsman.

25

 * Jim Brideweser, 62, American Major League baseballer.
 * Jacques Castelot, 75, French film actor.
 * Yan Frenkel, 68, Soviet Ukrainian composer and performer.
 * Frank Henry, 79, American equestrian and Olympic gold medalist.
 * Herbert Loper, 92, United States Army Major General in World War II, cardiac arrest.
 * Roman Palester, 81, Polish composer of classical music.
 * Jean-Louis Verdier, 54, French mathematician.
 * Bronwen Wallace, 44, Canadian poet and short story writer, cancer.

26

 * Hans Børli, 70, Norwegian poet and writer.
 * Juanita Brooks, 91, American historian and author, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Patrick Connor, 83, Irish politician.
 * Irving Stone, 86, American writer.

27

 * Elmer Ellis, 88, American educator and president of the University of Missouri.
 * Luiz Luz, 79, Brazilian international footballer.
 * Gloria Milland, 48, Italian actress.
 * Burhan Shahidi, 94, Chinese politician.
 * Bill Shirley, 68, American actor and tenor baritone, lung cancer.

28

 * Joseph Alsop, 78, American journalist and newspaper columnist.
 * Ondine, 52, American actor, AIDS-related liver disease.
 * John Steptoe, 38, American author and illustrator for children’s books, AIDS.
 * Fred Waters, 62, American Major League baseballer.

29

 * Pua Kealoha, 86, Hawaiian swimmer, Olympic gold medalist for the U.S.A.
 * Lorenzo Natali, 66, Italian politician.
 * Giorgio di Sant' Angelo, 66, Italian-Argentinian fashion designer based in the U.S.A., lung cancer.
 * Sir Peter Scott, 79, British ornithologist, conservationist, Olympic medalist in sailing, heart attack.

30

 * Buddy Burbage, 82, American Negro League baseballer.
 * Joe Collins, 66, American Major League baseballer.
 * Joe de Santis, 80, American radio, television, movie and theatrical actor and sculptor, pulmonary disease.
 * Geneviève Morel, 73, French stage and film actress.
 * Roland Renne, 83, American agricultural economics professor, president of Montana State College.
 * Dorothy Schiff, 86, American businesswoman, owner and publisher of the New York Post.

31

 * Michele Cascella, 96, Italian artist.
 * Moe Dalitz, 89, American gangster, businessman, casino owner and philanthropist, congestive heart failure.
 * Mary Gunn, 90, South African librarian and biographer.
 * Claire Luce, 85, American stage and screen actress, dancer and singer.
 * Skeeter Newsome, 78, American Major League baseballer.