Deaths in October 1989

The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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

 * Manuel Clouthier, 55, Mexican agriculturalist, businessman and politician, car accident.
 * Carlo Dapporto, 78, Italian film actor.
 * Witold Rowicki, 75, Polish conductor.

2

 * Paola Barbara, 77, Italian film actress.
 * Aubrey Boomer, 91, American golfer, stroke.
 * Vittorio Caprioli, 68, Italian actor, director and screenwriter, heart attack.
 * Cousin Joe, 81, American blues and jazz singer.

3

 * Bahadur Khan, 58, Indian sarod player and film score composer.
 * Del Wood, 69, American pianist, stroke.
 * Norman Yardley, 74, English test cricketer, captain of England, stroke.

4

 * Graham Chapman, 48, British actor, comedian and writer, tonsil cancer.
 * Edmund Osmańczyk, 76, Polish writer.

5

 * Robert T. Ashmore, 85, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
 * Ernesto Formenti, 62, Italian boxer and Olympic gold medalist.
 * Noël-Noël, 92, French actor and screenwriter.
 * Dicky Ralph, 81, Welsh international rugby player.

6

 * Bette Davis, 81, American actress, cancer.
 * Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, 69, French actor, critic, screenwriter and director, ruptured aneurysm.
 * Paul Henry, 77, Belgian footballer.
 * Robert Poulet, 96, Belgian writer, literary critic and journalist.
 * Reinhard Seiler, 80, Nazi German Luftwaffe Major and ace.

7

 * Keith Elliott, 73, New Zealand soldier, cancer.
 * Abe Landa, 86, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.
 * Forrest McPherson, 77, American NFL footballer.
 * Aleksanteri Saarvala, 76, Finnish gymnast and Olympic gold medalist.

8

 * Oscar Moglia, 54, Uruguayan basketballer and Olympic medalist.

9

 * Ernst Andersson, 80, Swedish international footballer.
 * Yusuf Atılgan, 68, Turkish novelist and dramatist, heart attack.
 * James Chabot, 62, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.
 * Herman Clark, 58, American NFL footballer.
 * Alan Hulme, 82, Australian politician, Postmaster-General of Australia.
 * Hassan Poladi, 44, Indian-American writer, liver failure.

11

 * Roberts Dunstan, 66, Australian politician, soldier and aviator during the Second World War.
 * Percival Goodman, 85, American urban theorist and architect.
 * M. King Hubbert, 86, American geologist and geophysicist, pulmonary embolism.
 * Paul Shenar, 53, American actor and theatre director, AIDS.

12

 * Carmen Cavallaro, 76, American pianist, prostate cancer.
 * Joe Foy, 46, American Major League baseballer, heart attack.
 * Franco Luambo, 51, Congolese musician, AIDS.
 * Sim Var, 83, Cambodian politician, Prime Minister of Cambodia.
 * Jay Ward, 69, American creator and producer of animated TV cartoon shows, renal cancer.
 * N. V. Krishna Warrier, 73, Indian poet, journalist and scholar.

13

 * Fred Agabashian, 76, American racer of midget cars and Indy cars.
 * Lud Gluskin, 90, American jazz drummer and bandleader.
 * Merab Kostava, 50, Georgian dissident, musician and poet, car crash.
 * Patrick McAuliffe, 75, Irish Labour Party politician.
 * Giuseppe Palmieri, 87, Italian Olympic high jumper and javelin thrower.
 * Cesare Zavattini, 87, Italian screenwriter.

14

 * Martin Broszat, 63, German historian.
 * Lucy Doraine, 91, Hungarian silent-screen actress.
 * Klavdiya Mayuchaya, 71, Soviet javelin thrower and European champion.
 * René Petit, 90, Franco-Spanish engineer and international footballer.

15

 * James Lee Barrett, 59, American author, producer and screenwriter, cancer.
 * Giuseppe Gandini, 89, Italian international footballer.
 * Paul Georgescu, 65, Romanian literary critic, journalist, fiction writer and communist political figure.
 * Tadevos Hakobyan, 72, Armenian historian and geographer.
 * Danilo Kiš, 54, Serbian novelist, short story writer, essayist and translator, lung cancer.
 * Scott O'Dell, 91, American children's writer, prostate cancer.
 * Michał Rola-Żymierski, 99, Polish Communist Party leader, Marshal of Poland.

16

 * Walter Farley, 74, American author, cancer.
 * Frederick Millar, 89, British diplomat, British Ambassador to West Germany.
 * Mário Vianna, 87, Brazilian football referee, pneumonia.
 * Cornel Wilde, 77, Hungarian-born American actor, leukemia.

17

 * John J. Anderson, 32, American writer and editor on computing and technology, building collapse in earthquake.
 * Jack Beynon, 76, American football player.
 * Mark Krein, 82, Soviet mathematician.
 * Cyril Mathew, 77, Sri Lankan politician.
 * R. A. B. Mynors, 86, English classicist and medievalist, road accident.

18

 * Mirko Bonačić, 86, Croatian footballer and Olympian.
 * Princess Gina of Liechtenstein, 67, Princess consort of Liechtenstein.

19

 * Eric Dixon, 59, American jazz tenor saxophonist, flautist, composer and arranger.
 * Albert Geldard, 75, English international footballer.
 * Alan Murphy, 35, English rock session guitarist, pneumonia resulting from AIDS.
 * Salim Nasir, 44, Pakistani film and TV actor, heart attack.

20

 * Sir Anthony Quayle, 76, British actor, theatre director and novelist, liver cancer.
 * Arthur Spjuth, 85, Swedish art director.

21

 * Jean Image, 78, Hungarian-French director, script writer and producer of French animation films.
 * Bud Marquardt, 75, Canadian footballer.

22

 * Ewan MacColl, 74, British folk singer, songwriter, political activist and actor, complications following heart surgery.
 * Tony Manero, 84, American golfer.
 * Roland Winters, 84, American actor, stroke.

23

 * Edmund E. Anderson, 83, American automotive designer.
 * Armida, 78, Mexican actress, singer, dancer and vaudevillian, heart attack.
 * Bert Hyde, 82, Australian rules footballer.
 * Clive Lewington, 69, Australian rules footballer.

24

 * Dean Alfange, 91, American politician, Deputy New York State Attorney General, cancer.
 * General Gopal Gurunath Bewoor, 73, Indian Army officer.
 * Ralph Chase, 86, American NFL footballer.
 * Jerzy Kukuczka, 41, Polish mountaineer, fall from mountain.
 * Sahib Shihab, 64, American jazz and hard bop saxophonist and flautist, liver cancer.
 * Sam Smith, 62–63, English rugby league footballer and World Cup winner.
 * Doris Huestis Speirs, 95, Canadian ornithologist, artist and poet.

25

 * Enrico Forcella, 82, Venezuelan shooter and Olympic medalist.
 * Mary McCarthy, 77, American novelist, critic and political activist, lung cancer.
 * Gerard Walschap, 91, Belgian writer.

26

 * Don Bass, 33, American NFL footballer, shot.
 * Charles J. Pedersen, 85, Korean-born American organic chemist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry.
 * Gordon Reid, 66, Australian academic, Governor of Western Australia, cancer.
 * Anders Rydberg, 86, Swedish footballer.
 * Kumeko Urabe, 87, Japanese movie actress, burns.

27

 * Con Moulson, 83, Irish footballer and manager.
 * Benjamin Murmelstein, 84, Austrian rabbi.
 * Alfred Wilson, 85, American rower and Olympic gold medalist.

28

 * Laurent Di Lorto, 80, French international footballer.
 * Darel Dieringer, 63, American professional stock car racing driver.
 * Henry Hall, 91, English bandleader.
 * Louise Hay, 54, French-born American mathematician, breast cancer.
 * Liam Redmond, 76, Irish stage, film and television actor.
 * Yuliya Solntseva, 88, Soviet actress and film director.
 * Kateb Yacine, 60, Algerian writer of novels and plays.

29

 * Roland Anderson, 85, American movie art director.
 * Jack Barker, 71, Australian rules footballer.
 * Róża Maria Goździewska, 53, Polish child nurse during Warsaw uprising.

30

 * Theodore Roosevelt Dalton, 88, American attorney and U.S. district judge, complications from pneumonia.
 * Ingeborg Refling Hagen, 93, Norwegian author, poet and artistic director.
 * Aristid Lindenmayer, 63, Hungarian biologist.
 * Yisrael Spira, 99, Holocaust survivor.
 * Pedro Vargas, 83, Mexican tenor and actor, complications from diabetes.

31

 * Conrad Beck, 88, Swiss composer.
 * Washington Saldías Fuentealba, 62, Chilean politician, Mayor of Pichilemu.
 * Elliott Loughlin, 79, American U.S. Navy Rear Admiral.
 * Francesc Miró-Sans, 73, Spanish businessman and president of FC Barcelona.
 * Roger Scott, 46, British radio disc jockey, stomach cancer.

Unknown date

 * Wilgar Campbell, 42–43, Irish blues rock musician, alcohol-related illness.
 * Francis J. Love, 88, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.