Deaths in July 1989

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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

 * William Ching, 75, American actor, congestive heart failure.
 * Eric Holland, 68, New Zealand politician, member of the New Zealand Parliament.
 * Sumant Moolgaokar, 82, Indian industrialist.
 * António Morais, 54, Portuguese footballer and manager, car crash.
 * Viktor Nekipelov, 60, Soviet Russian poet and writer.
 * Louise Varèse, 98, American writer, editor and translator of French literature.

2

 * Brendan Crinion, 65, Irish Fianna Fáil politician.
 * Andrei Gromyko, 79, Soviet politician and diplomat, Chairman of Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, vascular problem.
 * Hasan Esat Işık, 72–73, Turkish diplomat and politician.
 * Jean Leguay, 79, French Nazi, responsible for rounding up Jews for concentration camps, cancer.
 * Jean Painlevé, 86, French photographer and filmmaker.
 * Franklin J. Schaffner, 69, Japanese-born American film, television and stage director, lung cancer.
 * Wilfrid Sellars, 77, American philosopher.
 * Ben Wright, 74, English radio, film and television actor, complications from heart surgery.

3

 * Jim Backus, 76, American actor, best known as Thurston Howell III on Gilligan's Island, pneumonia.
 * Peter Fox, 68, Canadian politician, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba.

4

 * Jack Haig, English actor, 76, stomach cancer.
 * Win Maung, 73, President of the Union of Burma.
 * Leyla Mammadbeyova, 79, Azerbaijani aviator.
 * Vic Perrin, 73, American radio, film and television actor, cancer.

5

 * Bill Daddio, 73, American NFL football player, coach and scout, heart attack.
 * Ernesto Halffter, 84, Spanish composer and conductor.
 * Sirarpie Der Nersessian, 92, Armenian art historian.
 * Berthold Wolpe, 83, German calligrapher, typographer, type designer, book designer and illustrator.

6

 * Jean Bouise, 60, French actor.
 * C. A. Dharmapala, 81, Sri Lankan politician.
 * János Kádár, 77, Hungarian politician, General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, cancer.
 * John Maguire, 84, American Roman Catholic clergyman.
 * William F. Tompkins, 76, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly, heart attack.

7

 * Moshe Kol, 78, Israeli politician.

8

 * August Haußleiter, 84, German politician and journalist.

9

 * Andrex, 82, French film actor.
 * Piet Lieftinck, 86, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives and Senate.

10

 * Mel Blanc, 81, American voice actor and radio personality, complications of emphysema and obstructive pulmonary disease.
 * Jean-Michel Charlier, 64, Belgian comics writer.
 * Roger Richebé, 91, French film director, screenwriter and producer.
 * Tommy Trinder, 80, English stage, screen and radio comedian.

11

 * Irv Comp, 70, American NFL footballer.
 * Laurence Curtis, 83, American attorney and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives.
 * Horia Macellariu, 95, Romanian admiral, Royal Romanian Navy commander in Second World War.
 * Vic Maile, 55–56, British record producer, cancer.
 * Laurence Olivier, 82, English actor and director, renal failure.
 * Richard Travis, 76, American actor in films and television.

12

 * Sidney Hook, 86, American philosopher.
 * Carlos Puebla, 71, Cuban singer, guitarist and composer.
 * Prince Wolfgang of Hesse, 92, Crown Prince of Finland.

13

 * A. Amirthalingam, 61, Sri Lankan politician, Leader of the Opposition, assassinated.
 * Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, 58, Iranian Kurdish politician, assassinated.
 * Davud Monshizadeh, 74, Iranian supporter of Nazism.
 * Arnaldo Ochoa, 58–59, Cuban general, executed.
 * Pedro Orata, 90, Filipino educator.
 * V. Yogeswaran, 55, Sri Lankan lawyer, politician and member of Parliament, assassinated.

14

 * Arnold Poepke, 87, German politician.

15

 * Josef Bauer, 74, German politician.
 * Will Bradley, 77, American trombonist and bandleader.
 * Laurie Cunningham, 33, English international footballer, car crash.
 * Nesuhi Ertegun, 71, Turkish-born American record producer, complications of cancer surgery.
 * Artur Sandauer, 75, Polish literary critic, essayist and professor.
 * Jack Scholes, 71, Australian-born New Zealand sailor.
 * Teiichi Suzuki, 100, Lieutenant General in Imperial Japanese Army, minister of state, heart failure.
 * William F. Temple, 75, British science fiction writer.

16

 * John N. Dempsey, 74, Irish-born American politician, Governor of Connecticut, lung cancer.
 * Nicolás Guillén, 87, Cuban poet, journalist, political activist and writer, Parkinson's disease.
 * Herbert von Karajan, 81, Austrian conductor, principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, heart attack.
 * Jack Kasley, 73, American swimmer and Olympian.
 * George Rich, 84, American football player and coach.
 * Shmuel Rodensky, 86, Russian-born Israeli actor of stage, film and television, heart attack.
 * Allan Shaw, 62, English Anglican priest.

17

 * Dudley Brooks, 75, American jazz pianist, arranger and composer.
 * Paul C, 24, American hip hop pioneer, producer, engineer and mixer, murdered.
 * Robert Horton Cameron, 81, American mathematician.
 * Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil, 89, French wife of Samuel Beckett.
 * Paul Lemerle, 86, French founding president of the International Association of Byzantine Studies.
 * Jeff Moores, 83, Australian rugby league footballer.
 * Mary Parke, 81, British marine botanist and Fellow of the Royal Society.
 * Vuppuluri Ganapathi Sastry, 100, Indian sanskrit scholar, writer and spiritual teacher.

18

 * Donnie Moore, 35, American Major League baseballer, gun suicide.
 * Rebecca Schaeffer, 21, American actress, murdered.

19

 * J. M. Cohen, 86, British translator of European literature into English.
 * Xaquín Lorenzo Fernández, 82, Spanish educator.
 * Jay Ramsdell, 25, American commissioner of the Continental Basketball Association, plane crash.
 * Stan Ramsay, 84, English footballer and manager.
 * Kazimierz Sabbat, 76, Prime Minister and President of the Polish government in exile.
 * Carl-Heinz Schroth, 87, German actor and film director.
 * John Wyhonic, 69, American NFL footballer.

20

 * Forrest H. Anderson, 76, American politician, Governor and Attorney General of Montana, self-inflicted gunshot wound.
 * Valentine Bargmann, 81, German-born American mathematician and theoretical physicist.
 * Jaime Bartrolí, 71, Spanish tennis player and coach.
 * José Augusto Brandão, 78, Brazilian international footballer.
 * Juan Carlos Altavista, 60, Argentine actor and comedian, Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.
 * Lauro Corona, 32, Brazilian actor.
 * Karen DeWolf, 85, American screenwriter and novelist.
 * Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, 79, leader of French Resistance network \"Alliance\", under code name \"Hérisson\".
 * Dženan Salković, 44, Bosnian and Yugoslav singer and songwriter, accident while piloting a glider.
 * Erwin Sietas, 78, German swimmer and Olympic medalist.
 * Mary Treen, 82, American film and television actress, cancer.
 * Yannis Tsarouchis, 79, Greek modernist painter and set designer.
 * Harry Worth, 71, English comedy actor, comedian and ventriloquist, spinal cancer.

21

 * Donald Brittain, 61, Canadian film director and producer.
 * James M. Collins, 73, American businessman and politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
 * Danilo Lokar, 97, Slovene physician and expressionist writer.
 * William T. Whisner Jr., 65, American pilot in U.S. Air Force, complications from wasp sting.

22

 * Janet Lee Bouvier, 81, American mother of Jacqueline Kennedy, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
 * A. Thomas Doyle, 71, American thoroughbred racehorse trainer, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Martti Talvela, 54, Finnish operatic bass, heart attack.
 * Frank Thompson, 70, American politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, esophageal cancer.

23

 * Donald Barthelme, 58, American short story writer and novelist, throat cancer.
 * Archduchess Charlotte of Austria, 68, daughter of Emperor Charles I of Austria.
 * Hank Greenspun, 79, American publisher of Las Vegas Sun newspaper.
 * Thevis Guruge, Sri Lankan broadcaster with Radio Ceylon, murdered.
 * Claude Harmon, 73, American professional golfer, heart failure.
 * Daniel Rhodes, 78, American artist, heart attack
 * Alexander Weygers, 87, Dutch-American sculptor, painter, mechanical and aerospace engineer, and author.

24

 * Marco Acerbi, 40, Italian hurdler and Olympian.
 * Walter Dick, 83, American international footballer.
 * Charlie Gallagher, 51, Irish Gaelic footballer, drowned.
 * Ernie \"Sunshine Sammy\" Morrison, 76, American actor, comedian and dancer, cancer.
 * Eleanor Raymond, 102, American architect.

25

 * Steve Rubell, 45, American entrepreneur, owner of New York City disco Studio 54, hepatitis complicated by AIDS.

26

 * Derek Ball, British sound engineer and Academy Award winner.

27

 * Eugénie Henderson, 74, British linguist and academic.
 * Warren Low, 83, American film editor.
 * Walter Scott, 89, Australian rules footballer.
 * Dolf Sternberger, 81, German philosopher and political scientist.

28

 * B. V. Bowden, 79, English scientist.
 * Jeff Richards, 64, American actor, acute respiratory failure.
 * Fu Zhong, 89, Chinese general in the People's Liberation Army.

29

 * Osvaldo Brandão, 72, Brazilian footballer and coach.
 * Joe Littlejohn, 81, American stock car racing driver, heart attack.
 * Rudy Zamora, 79, Mexican-American animator.

30

 * Lily Broberg, 65, Danish stage and film actress.
 * Muhammad Dilawar Khanji, 71, Pakistani politician, Governor of Sindh, lung cancer.
 * Lane Frost, 25, American professional rodeo cowboy, killed by bull.
 * Amadeo Labarta, 84, Spanish footballer and Olympian.

31

 * Premakeerthi de Alwis, 42, Sri Lankan radio and television broadcaster and lyricist, murdered.
 * Eddie Gannon, 78, Irish footballer.
 * Michael Harrington, 61, American author, political activist and radio commentator, esophageal cancer.
 * Bull Moose Jackson, 70, American rhythm-and-blues singer and saxophonist, lung cancer.
 * Geronima Pecson, 92, Filipina educator and suffragette, first woman senator of the Philippines.
 * George Augustus Vaughn Jr., 92, American fighter ace in World War I, brain tumour.
 * Zhou Yang, 80, Chinese literary theorist, translator and Marxist.

Unknown date

 * Hui Yuyu, 79–80, Chinese politician.