Deaths in June 1989

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.

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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * Albert Spaggiari, 56, French criminal.
 * Emil Verban, 73, American Major League baseballer.

9

 * George Beadle, 85, American geneticist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine.
 * Rashid Behbudov, 73, Azerbaijani singer and actor.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.

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.
 * 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.
 * Judy Johnson, 89, American Negro League baseballer.
 * Ray McAnally, 63, Irish actor, heart attack.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * I. F. Stone, 81, American investigative journalist, writer and author, heart attack.

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.
 * 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.
 * William Fletcher-Vane, 80, British politician, member of the House of Lords.
 * Robert Körner, 64, Austrian international footballer.
 * Henri Sauguet, 88, French composer.
 * Isaac Starr, 94, American physician, heart disease specialist and clinical epidemiologist.

23

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

24

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

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.
 * Jack Buetel, 73, American film and television actor.
 * Dorothy Bullitt, 97, American businesswoman and philanthropist.
 * Michele Lupo, 56, Italian film director.
 * 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.
 * Mike Sebastian, 79, American NFL footballer.

29

 * Kazuo Mori, 78, Japanese film director

30

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