Deaths in September 1989

The following is a list of notable deaths in September 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

 * Frank Collier, 56, English international rugby league footballer.
 * Kazimierz Deyna, 41, Polish international footballer, car accident.
 * Bart Giamatti, 51, American Commissioner of Major League Baseball, heart attack.
 * Dipa Ma, 78, Indian meditation teacher.
 * Albert Outler, 80, American Methodist historian, theologian and pastor.
 * Shah Azizur Rahman, 63, Bangladeshi politician, Prime Minister of Bangladesh.

2

 * Clifton Parker, 84, British composer.
 * Brian Robinson, appr. 27, Northern Ireland loyalist militant, shot.

3

 * Franzisca Baruch, 87, German–Israeli graphic designer.
 * Vice Admiral John Augustine Collins, 90, Royal Australian Navy officer.
 * Augie Lio, 71, American NFL footballer.
 * Sten Mellgren, 89, Swedish international footballer and Olympic medalist.
 * Gaetano Scirea, 36, Italian international footballer, car accident.
 * Rip Sewell, 82, American Major League baseballer.
 * Meena Shorey, 67, Pakistani film actress.

4

 * Bernard Belleau, 64, Canadian molecular pharmacologist.
 * Colin Clark, 83, British and Australian economist and statistician.
 * Wilfred Payton, 75, English clergyman and first-class cricketer.
 * Georges Simenon, 86, Belgian writer, complications from a fall.
 * Ronald Syme, 86, New Zealand-born British classicist and historian.

5

 * Les Allen, 78, Australian rules footballer.
 * Sir John Philip Baxter, 84, British-Australian chemical engineer.
 * Michael Fidler, 73, British politician.
 * Geneviève Kervine, 68, French film actress, cancer.
 * William Mann, 65, English music critic.
 * J. Barkley Rosser, 81, American logician, aneurysm.

6

 * Gina Manès, 96, French film actress.
 * Jimmy Ruffell, 89, English international footballer.

7

 * Tom Blackaller, 49, American yachtsman and world championship gold medalist, heart attack.
 * Valery Goborov, 23, Soviet basketball player and Olympic gold medalist, car crash.

8

 * Keef Cowboy, 28, American hip hop recording artist, drug overdose.
 * Karel Finek, 69, Czech footballer and manager.
 * Paul Alfred Weiss, 91, Austrian-American biologist.

9

 * Heinrich Angst, 74, Swiss bobsledder and Olympic gold medalist.
 * Fred Ashworth, 82, English rugby union and rugby league footballer.
 * John McShain, 92, American building contractor, complications from pneumonia.

10

 * Dutch Elston, 70, American NFL footballer, cancer.
 * William Joseph Hedley, 86, American civil and consulting engineer.
 * Gordon McCallum, 70, American-born English sound engineer.
 * Herman Peters, 90, Australian rugby league footballer for North Sydney and Australia.
 * Zbigniew Rychlicki, 67, Polish graphic artist and illustrator of children's books.
 * Jeff Stollmeyer, 68, Trinidad and Tobago test cricketer for the West Indies, wounds from home invaders.

11

 * Bill Weiley, 88, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.
 * Bill Wood, 67, Australian rules footballer.

12

 * George Gniel, 70, Australian rules footballer.
 * Anton Lubowski, 37, Namibian anti-apartheid activist and advocate, assassinated.
 * Sterjo Spasse, 75, Albanian prose writer and novelist.
 * Seamus Twomey, 69, Irish republican activist, militant and chief of staff of the Provisional IRA.
 * Don Walker, 81, American Broadway orchestrator and composer.

13

 * Acharya Aatreya, 68, Indian poet, lyricist, playwright and screenwriter.
 * İsmail Rüştü Aksal, 77–78, Turkish politician, Secretary General of the Republican People's Party.
 * Ken McCaw, 81, Australian politician, Attorney-General of New South Wales.
 * Giuseppe Ugo Papi, 96, Italian economist.
 * Charles H. Russell, 85, American politician, Governor of Nevada.
 * John Yovicsin, 70, American NFL footballer, heart disease.

14

 * John Bright, 81, American journalist, screenwriter and political activist.
 * Benjamin Peary Pal, 83, Indian plant breeder and agronomist.
 * Dámaso Pérez Prado, 72, Cuban bandleader, pianist and composer, popularised the Mambo, complications from a stroke.
 * Wayne Sabin, 74, American tennis player.

15

 * Harry Cave, 66, New Zealand cricketer, captain of New Zealand test team.
 * Jan DeGaetani, 56, American mezzo-soprano, leukemia.
 * Michael Klinger, 68, British film producer and distributor.
 * Joseph M. Pettit, 70, American engineer, dean of Stanford University School of Engineering, cancer.
 * Robert Penn Warren, 84, American poet, novelist and literary critic, complications from prostate cancer.

16

 * Arno Behrisch, 76, German politician.
 * Bruno Heck, 72, German politician.
 * Steven Stayner, 24, American kidnapping victim, motor cycle collision.

17

 * Leon Culberson, 70, American Major League baseballer.
 * Field Marshal Sir Richard Hull, 82, British Army officer, Chief of the General Staff, cancer.
 * Ion Dezideriu Sîrbu, 70, Romanian philosopher, novelist, essayist and dramatist, esophageal cancer.
 * Jay Stewart, 71, American television and radio announcer, suicide.
 * Don Vines, 57, Welsh rugby union and rugby league footballer.

18

 * Jack Smith, 56, American filmmaker, actor and pioneer of underground cinema.

19

 * Philip Sayer, 42, British actor, cancer.
 * Willie Steele, 66, American long-jumper and Olympic gold medalist, cancer.

20

 * Mihajlo Andrejević, 91, Serbian doctor, footballer and sports administrator.
 * Chen Boda, 85, Chinese Communist journalist, professor and political theorist.
 * John Carrell, 42, American ice dancer and ballet dancer, complications of AIDS.
 * Alexey Diakonoff, 82, Russian–Dutch entomologist.
 * Richie Ginther, 59, American race car driver, heart attack.
 * Tuti Indra Malaon, 49, Indonesian actress, dancer and lecturer, internal bleeding.
 * Len Pye, 78, Australian rules footballer.

21

 * Bill Barron, 62, American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist.
 * Troy Davis, 42, American convicted murderer of police officer, executed.
 * Ertem Eğilmez, 60, Turkish film director, producer and screenwriter.
 * Murry Dickson, 73, American Major League baseballer, emphysema.
 * Corrado Gaipa, 64, Italian actor and voice actor.

22

 * Ambrose Folorunsho Alli, 60, Nigerian Executive Governor of defunct Nigerian state of Bendel State.
 * Irving Berlin, 101, American composer and lyricist, heart attack.
 * Bob Calihan, 71, American NBL basketballer and coach.
 * John E. Hunt, 80, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

23

 * Bradley Kincaid, 94, American folk singer and radio entertainer.
 * John T. Koehler, 85, United States Assistant Secretary of the Navy, cancer.
 * William Traylor, 58, American film, stage and television actor, heart attack.

24

 * Chuck Bond, 75, American NFL footballer.
 * Walter Koelz, 94, American zoologist and museum collector.
 * Shri Yogendra, 91, Indian yoga guru, author and poet.

25

 * Pedro Amorim, 69, Brazilian international footballer.
 * Darlington Hoopes, 93, American politician and lawyer, member of Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
 * Nowell Myres, 86, British archaeologist.

26

 * Lieselotte Berger, 68, German politician.
 * Jimmy Delaney, 75, Scottish international footballer.
 * Kaj Franck, 77, Finnish designer and applied artist.
 * Hemant Kumar, 69, Indian music director and playback singer, heart attack.

27

 * Tetsuzō Tanikawa, 94, Japanese philosopher.

28

 * Dorothy Andrus, 81, American tennis player.
 * José Arribas, 68, Spanish professional footballer and manager.
 * Thomas Keller, 64, Swiss president of FISA, governing body of international rowing.
 * Ferdinand Marcos, 72, Filipino dictator, politician and statesman, President of the Philippines.
 * Evan McCaskey, 24, American guitarist, suicide.
 * Qian Zhidao, 78, Chinese chemist.

29

 * Gussie Busch, 90, American brewing magnate, pneumonia.
 * Mark Dignam, 80, English actor.
 * Paul Elzey, 43, American NFL footballer.
 * János Farkas, 47, Hungarian footballer, heart attack.
 * Geoffrey Sumner, 80, British actor.
 * Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour, 81, French lawyer and far-right politician.

30

 * Horace Alexander, 100, English Quaker teacher, writer, pacifist and ornithologist.
 * Oskar Davičo, 80, Yugoslavian novelist and poet.
 * William M. Fairbank, 72, American physicist.
 * Janko Orožen, 97, Slovene historian and schoolteacher.
 * Huỳnh Tấn Phát, 76, Vietnamese architect and politician, Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam.
 * Arthur Rook, 68, English equestrian and Olympic gold medalist.
 * Drew Shafer, 53, American LGBT rights activist, complications of AIDS.
 * Virgil Thomson, 92, American composer.