Deaths in January 1989

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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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.

## January 1989

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### 1

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* Charles Cornell, 77, American Communist (Socialist Workers Party).[1]
* Percy MacKenzie, 70, English cricketer and RAF officer.
* Joseph Petre, 17th Baron Petre, 74, English peer.
* G. Sankara Pillai, 58, Indian playwright, literary critic and director.[2]
* Anthony Pini, 86, Argentinian-Scottish cellist (London Philharmonic Orchestra).[3]
* George Ross, 87, Australian rules footballer.
* Mal Rush, 79, American basketball player.
* Irvin Shapiro, 82, American producer, film importer and film distributor, complications from Parkinson's disease.[4]
* Aleka Stratigou, 62, Greek actress

### 2

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* Fred Berry, 78, English cricketer.
* René Courvoisier, 81, Swiss Olympic field hockey player (1936).
* Safdar Hashmi, 34, Indian playwright and director, and communist activist, murdered.[5]
* Murdo Martin, 71, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1957-1968).

### 3

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* Robert Banks, 67, American chemist (Phillips Petroleum, Perkin Medal).[6]
* Betty Behrens, 84, British historian and academic (University of Cambridge).
* Jean-Paul Denis, 64, Canadian NHL player (New York Rangers).
* Errol Le Cain, 47, British animator and children's book illustrator (Hiawatha's Childhood – Kate Greenaway Medal).
* Laurence Grafftey-Smith, 96, British diplomat, member of the British Consular Service.
* Eddie Heywood, 73, American jazz pianist and composer (Soft Summer Breeze, Canadian Sunset).[7]
* Bernhard Krüger, 84, Nazi German SS Sturmbannführer.
* Jim Lawson, 86, American NFL player (New York Yankees).
* Lina Prokofiev, 91, Spanish singer[8]
* Sergei Sobolev, 80, Soviet mathematician.[9]
* Robert Thomas, 61, French writer, actor and film director.
* Nick Virgilio, 60, American haiku poet, heart attack.[10]
* Jean Willes, 65, American film and television actress (The King and Four Queens, Invasion of the Body Snatchers), liver cancer.[11]

### 4

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* Srikrishna Alanahalli, 41, Indian novelist and poet (Kaadu, Parasangada Gendethimma).
* Ratanlal Brahmin, 88, Indian politician, Member of Parliament.
* Pino Calvi, 58, Italian pianist, conductor and composer (Accarezzame).
* Junko Furuta, 17, Japanese student, murdered.[12]
* Jack Gage, 76, American film and television director.
* Erling Juul, 91, Norwegian Olympic triple jumper (1920).
* Clare Leighton, 91, English–American artist, writer and illustrator, known for wood engravings.[13]
* Mike Micka, 67, American NFL player (Washington Redskins, Boston Yanks).
* D. R. Nanayakkara, 73, Sri Lankan cinema actor (Rekava, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom).
* Dvora Netzer, 91, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (1949-1969).
* Robert Watson Pomeroy, 86, American businessman and politician, member of the New York Senate, heart failure.[14]
* Ross Sutherland, 51, Australian rules footballer.
* Naomi Chapman Woodroof, 88, American agriculturalist, known for increasing peanut yields five-fold.[15]

### 5

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* Philip Herschkowitz, 82, Romanian-born composer and music theorist.[16]
* Dexter Masters, 79, American editor and novelist (One World or None: a Report to the Public on the Full Meaning of the Atomic Bomb).[17]
* Nell O'Day, 79, American equestrian and actress, heart attack.[18]
* David Stewart Porter, 79, American district judge (United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio).

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* Eduardo Balderas, 81, Mexican-born American translator for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.[19]
* Hans von Campenhausen, 85, Baltic German Protestant theologian.
* Mario Galento, 73, American actor and professional wrestler.
* Jim Hurtubise, 56, American race car driver, winner of 1966 Atlanta 500, heart attack.[20]
* Illingworth "Buck" Kerr, 83, Canadian painter, known for landscape paintings of Saskatchewan and Alberta prairies and foothills, suicide.[21]
* Elizabeth Duncan Koontz, 69, American figure in civil rights and women's movement, director of the United States Women's Bureau, heart attack.[22]
* Sir Edmund Leach, 78, British social anthropologist, president of the Royal Anthropological Institute.[23]
* Elisa Lispector, 77, Brazilian novelist (Além da Fronteira, O Muro de Pedras).[24]
* George Mercer, 44, American rapist and murderer, executed.[25]
* John Donald Robb, 96, American composer and arts administrator.[26]
* Kehar Singh, 53–54, Indian co-conspirator in the Indira Gandhi assassination, executed.[27]
* Satwant Singh, 26–27, Indian co-assassin of Indira Gandhi, executed.[28]

### 7

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* Frank Adams, 58, British mathematician, Professor of Astronomy and Geometry at Cambridge (Adams spectral sequence, Adams conjecture).[29]
* Nigel Bloy, 66, English cricketer and RAF officer.
* Tom Brierley, 78, British-Canadian cricketer.
* Alfred Dieck, 82, German archaeologist whose work has been largely discredited.[30]
* Hirohito, 87, longest reigning Emperor of Japan, cancer.[31]
* Zoltán Jeney, 78, Hungarian Olympic ice hockey player (1936).
* Josef Moll, 80, Nazi German Wehrmacht and West German Bundeswehr officer, Inspector of the Army.
* Desmond Morris, 28, Jamaican Olympic high jumper (1980, 1984).
* Aslam Pahalwan, 61, Pakistani professional wrestler and world heavyweight champion.[32]
* Timothy Plowman, 44, American ethnobotanist, known for study of Erythroxylum, AIDS contracted from inoculations.[33]
* Stuart Rhodes, 78, English cricketer (Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club).[34]

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* Mieczysław G. Bekker, 83–84, Polish American vehicular engineer, contributed to design and construction of the Lunar Roving Vehicle.
* Ronald DiPerna, 41, American mathematician in nonlinear partial differential equations.[35]
* Torsten Johansson, 83, Swedish Olympic footballer (1936).
* Johnny Jordaan, 64, Dutch singer of levenslied.[36]
* Junker Jørgensen, 42, Danish Olympic cyclist (1972).
* Olavi Kuronen, 65, Finnish Olympic ski jumper (1952).
* Kenneth McMillan, 56, American actor (Rhoda, Dune), liver disease.[37]
* Bill Reynolds, 60, American Negro Leagues baseball player.
* Frank Sullivan, 90, Canadian Olympic ice hockey player (1928).

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* Bill Andrews, 80, English cricketer.
* Richard Barr, 71, American theatre director and producer, president of the League of American Theatres and Producers, AIDS-related liver failure.[38]
* Biguá, 67, Brazilian footballer.
* Stan Callaghan, 72, Australian rugby league footballer.
* Øivind Jensen, 83, Norwegian Olympic boxer (1924).
* Walter Köhler, 91, German Nazi Party politician, Minister President of Baden.
* Marshall H. Stone, 85, American mathematician at Harvard (Stone–von Neumann uniqueness theorem), stroke.[39]
* Bill Terry, 90, American Major League baseballer (New York Giants).[40]
* John K. Waters, 82, American general in the U.S. Army, heart failure.[41]

### 10

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* Chris Avram, 57, Romanian-Italian film actor
* William Joseph Browne, 91, Canadian lawyer, judge and politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1949-1953, 1957-1962).
* John Powers Crowley, 52, American district judge (United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois).
* Calvin DeWitt Jr., 94, American brigadier general.
* Yi Eungro, 84, Korean-born French painter and printmaker, heart attack.
* Kai Fjell, 81, Norwegian painter.
* Karl Geiringer, 89, Austrian-American musicologist and biographer of composers, complications from a fall.[42]
* Valentin Glushko, 80, Soviet engineer, program manager of the Soviet space program.[43]
* Royal Little, 92, American founder and chair of Textron.[44]
* Herbert Morrison, 83, American radio journalist, voice of the Hindenburg disaster.[45]
* Peder Puck, 96, Norwegian footballer.
* Donald Voorhees, 85, American conductor and composer.
* Colin Winchester, 55, assistant commissioner in the Australian Federal Police, assassinated.[46]

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* Sir George Abell, 84, English civil servant and cricketer, director of the Bank of England.[47]
* Adil Candemir, 71-72, Turkish Olympic wrestler (1948).
* Hai Deng, 86, Chinese Buddhist monk and martial artist, emeritus abbot of Shaolin Temple.
* Michael Forrestal, 61, American National Security Advisor of President John F. Kennedy, aneurysm.[48]
* Henning Karmark, 81, Danish film producer.
* August Koern, 88, Estonian statesman and diplomat.[49]
* Ray Moore, 47, British broadcaster, host of early morning show on BBC Radio 2, throat cancer.[50]
* José Bustamante y Rivero, 94, Peruvian politician and diplomat, President of Peru.[51]
* Jackie Wright, 84, Northern Irish comedian, bald-headed sidekick of Benny Hill.

### 12

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* Clise Dudley, 85, American MLB player (Brooklyn Robins, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates).
* Harold Hubble, 84, English cricketer.
* Zygmunt Hübner, 58, Polish actor and stage director.
* Irena Milnikiel, 55, Polish Olympic swimmer (1952).
* Ray Morehart, 89, American Major League baseballer (Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees).[52]
* Fernand Oriol, 88, French Olympic rower (1924).
* Percy Price Jr., 52, American amateur boxer and Olympian (1960).[53]
* Nikos Psacharopoulos, 60, Greek-American theatre producer and director, co-founder of Williamstown Theater Festival, colon cancer.[54]
* Satyam, 55–56, Indian composer.
* Willy Schneider, 83, German schlager singer.

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* Pat Ankenman, 76, American MLB player (St. Louis Cardinals, Brooklyn Dodgers).
* Hermann Bartels, 88, Nazi German architect and member of the SS.
* Sterling Allen Brown, 87, American professor and poet, Poet Laureate of the District of Columbia, leukemia.[55]
* Thelma Cazalet-Keir, 89, British feminist and politician, Member of Parliament.[56]
* Candy Csencsits, 33, American professional female bodybuilder and actress, breast cancer.[57]
* Molly Flaherty, 74, Australian cricketer.
* Joe Glamp, 67, American NFL player (Pittsburgh Steelers).
* Chuck Hornbostel, 77, American Olympic middle-distance runner (1932, 1936).
* Hiram E. McCallum, 89, Canadian politician, Mayor of Toronto.
* John Moorman, 83, English Bishop of Ripon.
* Ray Morehart, 89, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees).[58]
* José María Peña, 93, Spanish international footballer and manager, Olympian (1924).[59]
* Joe Spinell, 52, American actor (The Godfather, Rocky, Taxi Driver)

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* Ernie Blake, 75, German-American co-founder of Taos Ski Valley, New Mexico, pneumonia.[60]
* Robert Lekachman, 68, American economist, promoter of social justice, liver cancer.[61]
* Robert Lembke, 75, German television presenter and game show host (Was bin ich? – What's my Line)
* Ramesh Prasad Mohapatra, 49, Indian archaeologist, curator for archaeology at Odisha State Museum.[62]
* Odette Monard, 85, French Olympic swimmer (1924).
* Jim Money, 81, Australian rules footballer.
* Marco Vassi, 51, American author, noted for erotica, pneumonia.
* Richard Warner, 77, English actor (George and Margaret, When We Are Married)
* Nguyễn Văn Xuân, 96, Vietnamese politician, prime minister of Vietnam.

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* Madeline Fairbanks, 88, American film and stage actress.
* Wendy Foster, 51, British architect, co-founder of Team 4 and Foster Associates, cancer.
* Helen Logan, 82, American screenwriter.
* Ibrahim Shihab, 65, Maldivian writer and politician.
* Wilf Slack, 34, English international cricketer (English national team, Middlesex), heart attack.[63]
* Trevor Swan, 71, Australian economist (Solow–Swan growth model).[64]

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* Mick Baxter, 32, English footballer (Preston North End, Middlesbrough, Portsmouth), cancer.
* Pierre Boileau, 82, half of French crime-writing duo Boileau-Narcejac (Les Diaboliques, Vertigo).
* Joseph Henry Lynch, 77, British artist (Tina, Autumn Leaves, Woodland Goddess).
* Fredrik Meyer, 72, Norwegian Olympic sailor (1936).
* Gennady Myasnikov, 69, Soviet production designer and artist (War and Peace).
* Prem Nazir, 62, Indian actor (Vida Parayum Munpe, Iruttinte Athmavu), measles.[65]
* Assi Nortia, 63, Finnish film actress.
* Steve Otto, 67, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1962-1972).
* Frank Trechock, 73, American MLB player (Washington Senators).
* George Ray Tweed, 86, American radioman in the U.S. Navy, known for evading capture for more than two years, car accident.[66]
* Trey Wilson, 40, American actor (Raising Arizona, Bull Durham), cerebral hemorrhage.[67]

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* Gordon Allott, 82, American politician (Republican), U.S. Senator (1955-1973).[68]
* Brian Allsop, 53, Australian rugby league footballer.
* Wajid Ali Khan Burki, 88, Pakistani ophthalmologist, lung cancer.[69]
* Michael Francke, 42, American judge, director of New Mexico and Oregon Corrections Departments, murdered.[70]
* Helga Krause, 53, German film editor.
* Jim Lansford, 58, American NFL player (Dallas Texans).
* Sam Longson, 88, British businessman, chairman of Derby County Football Club.
* Óscar Vargas Prieto, 71, Peruvian soldier and politician, Prime Minister of Peru.
* Georges Schéhadé, 83, Lebanese playwright and poet (Histoire de Vasco).
* Alfred Smith, 80, Australian cricketer.
* Anton Weselak, 70, Canadian lawyer and politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada (1953-1957).
* Alfredo Zitarrosa, 52, Uruguayan singer-songwriter and poet (Doña Soledad, Crece desde el Pie, Recordándote).

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* Nils Axelsson, 83, Swedish footballer.
* Bruce Chatwin, 48, British travel writer and novelist (On the Black Hill, Utz), AIDS.[71]
* Buster Clarkson, 73, American Major League and Negro League baseballer (Boston Braves).[72]
* Marshall Esteppe, 79, American professional wrestler.
* Ormond Graham, 70, Barbadian cricketer.
* John D. Hickerson, 90, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to the Philippines and Finland, cancer.[73]
* Al Lindow, 69, American NFL player (Chicago Cardinals).
* Jim Odom, 67, American MLB umpire.
* Bienna Pélégry, 89, French Olympic swimmer (1924, 1928).
* Irving Resnick, 72, American mobster, boxing promoter and manager, heart failure.[74]

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* Devi Dja, 74, Indonesian-American dancer, actress and singer (Dardanella theatre company), cancer.[75]
* Luis Guzmán, 70, Peruvian footballer.
* Viva Tattersall, 90, British stage and film actress (The Whispering Shadow).
* Norma Varden, 90, English-American actress (Casablanca, The White Cliffs of Dover, The Sound of Music), heart failure.[76]
* Octavio Vial, 70, Mexican international football manager and World Cup coach.

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* Mete Adanır, 27, Turkish Cypriot footballer (Altay, Samsunspor), team bus accident.[77]
* Józef Cyrankiewicz, 77, Polish communist politician, prime minister and president of Poland.[78]
* John Harding, 92, British Army Field Marshall, Governor of Cyprus.[79]
* Alamgir Kabir, 50, Bangladeshi film director and cultural activist, drowned.[80]
* Tina Khan, 22, Bangladeshi film actress.
* Dolf van Kol, 86, Dutch Olympic footballer (1928).
* Beatrice Lillie, 94, Canadian-British actress, singer and comedic performer (Inside U.S.A., High Spirits).[81]
* Ron McCarthy, 54, Australian rules footballer.
* Whistlin' Alex Moore, 89, American blues pianist and singer ("Blue Bloomer Blues", "Black Eyed Peas and Hog Jowls"), heart attack.[82]
* Wenzel Profant, 75, Luxembourgian sculptor.
* Vincenzo Rossello, 65, Italian cyclist.
* Morris Starsky, 55, American political and social activist, philosophy professor (Arizona State University), heart disease.[83]
* Halsey Stevens, 80, American music professor, biographer and composer.[84]

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* Muharrem Bajraktari, 92, Albanian Muslim guerrilla fighter (National Committee for a Free Albania).
* William O. Burch, 84, American rear admiral in the U.S. Navy.[85]
* José de Chávarri, 91, Spanish Olympic field hockey player (1928).
* Morley Drury, 85, Canadian-American footballer (University of Southern California).[86]
* Keith English, 61, Canadian CFL player (Montreal Alouettes).
* Carl Furillo, 66, American Major League baseball player (Brooklyn & Los Angeles Dodgers), heart attack.[87]
* Chris Greenham, 65, English sound editor (The Guns of Navarone, Superman, Born Free).
* Leslie Halliwell, 59, British film critic (Filmgoer's Companion, Halliwell's Film Guide), esophageal cancer.[88]
* Mahmoud Namjoo, 70, Iranian Olympic weightlifter (1948, 1952, 1956).
* Gulabrao Patil, 67, Indian politician, Member of Parliament.
* Robert H. Pierson, 78, American president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.[89]
* Billy Tipton, (Dorothy Lucille Tipton), 74, American transgender jazz musician and bandleader, peptic ulcer.[90]

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* Miodrag Andrić, 45, Serbian actor.
* James Francis Collins, 83, American general in the U.S. Army, prostate cancer.[91]
* Sydney Goldstein, 85, British mathematician (Fluid dynamics).[92]
* Joseph Mattsson-Boze, 83, Swedish-American minister, pastor of Chicago's Philadelphia Church.
* Ugo Pignotti, 90, Italian fencer and Olympic gold medalist (1928, 1932).[93]
* S. Vithiananthan, 64, Sri Lankan writer, vice-chancellor of the University of Jaffna.
* Larry Warke, 61, Irish cricketer.
* Willie Wells, 82, American Negro League baseballer, congestive heart failure.[94]
* Sándor Weöres, 75, Hungarian poet and author.[95]

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* George Case, 73, American Major League baseballer (Washington Senators), emphysema.[96]
* Nguyễn Minh Châu, 58, Vietnamese novelist.
* Salvador Dalí, 84, Spanish artist (Cabaret Scene, The Basket of Bread, The First Days of Spring), cardiac arrest.[97]
* Albert Geary, 88, English cricketer.
* Bob Gerhardt, 85, American insurance businessman, broker, and Olympic rower (1924).
* M. Govindan, 69, Indian writer and cultural activist (Nokkukuthi).
* Lindsay Grant, 89, Trinidadian cricket umpire, cricket administrator, and businessman.
* Robert Kelly, 75, American officer in the U.S. Navy, known for evacuating General Douglas MacArthur from the Philippines, pneumonia.[98]
* Arthur Lonergan, 83, American art director (The Oscar, Forbidden Planet, M*A*S*H).
* John Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 81, Italian-born British peer and soldier, member of the House of Lords.
* Hans Karl Meyer, 90, Nazi German admiral in the Kriegsmarine and flotilla admiral of the West German navy.
* Angus Morrison, 86, English pianist, Order of the British Empire.
* Diana Pizzavini, 77, Italian Olympic gymnast (1928).
* Frits Schipper, 84, Dutch Olympic footballer (1928).
* Lars-Erik Torph, 28, Swedish rally driver, rally crash as a spectator.
* Gilbert L. Voss, 70–71, American conservationist and oceanographer (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute).[99]

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* Betty Belton, 72, English cricketer.
* Ted Bundy, 42, American serial killer, executed.[100]
* Mike Bytzura, 66, American basketball player.
* Dante Emiliozzi, 73, Argentine racing driver.
* Matelo Ferret, 70–71, French guitarist and composer, cancer.
* Roberto Figueroa, 84, Uruguayan international footballer and Olympic gold medalist (1928).[101]
* Merwin Graham, 85, American Olympic triple jumper (1924).
* Earl Jones, 69, American MLB player (St. Louis Browns).
* George Knudson, 51, Canadian professional golfer, cancer.[102]
* Suzet Maïs, 80, French film and stage actress.
* Sasha Putrya, 11, Ukrainian artist, leukemia.
* Michael Scott, 83, Irish architect (Busáras building, Cork Opera House, Abbey Theatre).[103]
* Les Spann, 56, American jazz guitarist and flautist.
* Chauncey Stillman, 81, American philanthropist, art collector, conservationist and banking heir.[104]
* Theodore B. Werner, 96, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (1933-1937).
* Siegfried Wischnewski, 66, German stage and film actor (Derrick, Der Kommissar)

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* David Basnett, 64, British trade union leader, president of the Trades Union Congress.[105]
* Bertil Berg, 78, Swedish Olympic water polo player (1936).
* Falih Fahmi, 48-49, Iraqi Olympic sprinter (1960), and general.
* Carlisle H. Humelsine, 73, American diplomat and military officer, Assistant Secretary of State for Administration.[106]
* Gustavo Álvarez Martínez, 51, Honduran military officer, head of the Honduran armed forces, assassinated.[107]
* László Márton, 65, Hungarian Olympic rower (1952).
* Alvin Robinson, 51, American rhythm and blues singer, guitarist and songwriter (Something You Got).
* Bikki Sunazawa, 57, Japanese woodcarver, painter, artist and sculptor, bone marrow cancer.[108]
* Dave Underwood, 60, English footballer.

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* Morton DaCosta, 74, American theatre and film director and producer, writer and actor (Plain and Fancy, Auntie Mame, The Music Man), heart failure.[109]
* Donnie Elbert, 52, American soul singer and songwriter (Where Did Our Love Go, I Can't Help Myself), stroke.[110]
* William Forrest, 86, American theatre, film and television actor, heart failure.[111]
* Albert Hofstadter, 78, American philosopher.[112]
* H. Claude Hudson, 102, American businessman and civil rights advocate, founder of Broadway Federal Savings and Loan Association.[113]
* Segundo Llorente, 82, Spanish Jesuit missionary, philosopher and author.[114]
* George Schroth, 89, American Olympic water polo player (1924, 1928).
* Aileen Thomas, 81, Canadian Olympic fencer (1936).

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* Dónall Mac Amhlaigh, 62, Irish writer (Dialann Deoraí, Deoraithe).[115]
* Abu Baker Asvat, 46, South African medical doctor, murdered.[116]
* David Buck, 52, English actor and voice actor (Horatio Hornblower, The Lord of the Rings)
* Bayani Casimiro, 70, Filipino dancer.
* Bob Haymes, 65, American singer, songwriter, actor and radio and television presenter (That's All), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[117]
* Robert A. Henle, 65–66, American electrical engineer (semiconductors).[118]
* Marcel de Kerviler, 78, French navy officer and Olympic sailor (1948, 1952).
* Vasily Konovalenko, 59, Soviet artist (gemstone sculptures), cerebral hemorrhage.[119]
* Willibald Kreß, 82, German international footballer and manager (Dresdner SC).[120]
* Gerald Livock, 91, British RAF officer and cricketer.
* Arthur Marshall, 78, British writer, raconteur and broadcaster (Call My Bluff).
* Harry Moore, 61, Australian rules footballer.
* Sir Thomas Sopwith, 101, British aviation pioneer and yachtsman, European ice hockey champion.[121]

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* Michael Behrens, 77, British financier, banker, stockbroker, and restaurant and gallery owner, co-owner of the Ionian Bank.
* Eugene Emond, 68, American officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
* Choekyi Gyaltsen, Panchen Lama, 50, Tibetan Buddhist leader, heart attack.[122]
* Svend Knudsen, 93, Danish footballer.
* Halina Konopacka, 88, Polish discus thrower and Olympic gold medalist (1928).
* László Papp, 84, Hungarian Olympic wrestler (1928).
* Stan Partenheimer, 66, American MLB player (Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Cardinals).
* Olli Puhakka, 72, Finnish Air Force ace in World War II.
* Paulette le Raer, 57, French Olympic gymnast (1960).
* Luigi Rovati, 84, Italian Olympic boxer (1932).
* Hasmukh Dhirajlal Sankalia, 80, Indian scholar and archaeologist.
* Marc Stevens, 45, American erotic performer, AIDS.
* Yoshimaro Yamashina, 88, Japanese ornithologist.[123]

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* Federico Cantú Garza, 81, Mexican painter, engraver and sculptor.
* Honey Green, 73, American Negro Leagues baseball player.
* Mandel Kramer, 72, American actor and voice actor (Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar).

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* Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz, 52, heir of the Spanish monarchy in the event of restoration, skiing accident.[124]
* Pegeen Fitzgerald, 84, American radio personality (The Fitzgeralds), breast cancer.[125]
* Jack George, 60, American NBA basketballer (Philadelphia Warriors, New York Knicks).[126]
* Timothy Sylvester Hogan, 79, American district judge (United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio).
* Friedrich Solmsen, 84, German-American philologist and professor of classical studies.[127]
* Theo Zwierski, 77, German art director.

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* Yasushi Akutagawa, 63, Japanese composer and conductor.[128]
* Osborne Anderson, 80, American Olympic ice hockey player (1932).
* Audrey Beecham, 73, English poet and historian, asthma.
* Jack Douglas, 80, American comedy writer.[129]
* Bob Dunn, 80, American cartoonist, entertainer and gagwriter.[130]
* Arthur Reginald Evans, 83, Australian coastwatcher, rescuer of JFK.[131]
* Fernando Gonçalves Namora, 69, Portuguese writer and medical doctor (Retalhos da Vida de um Médico).[132]
* William Stephenson, 92, Canadian soldier, fighter pilot, businessman and spymaster (British Security Co-ordination).[133]

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* Lewis Goram, 63, Scottish footballer (Bury F.C.).
* Leo Holzer, 86–87, Austrian-Czech firefighter and Holocaust survivor.
* Oliver Sipple, 47, American who prevented assassination attempt on U.S. President Gerald Ford.[134]
* Violet Winspear, 60, British romance author, cancer.

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51. ^ JOSE BUSTAMANTE Y RIVERO DIES. Washington Post. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
52. ^ Ray Morehart, Yankee With Ruth, Dies at 89. New York Times. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
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54. ^ Richard F. Shepard (January 13, 1989). "Nikos Psacharopoulos, 60, Co-Founder of Theater". The New York Times. p. B 5. Retrieved May 8, 2024.
55. ^ Sterling A. Brown, 87, Poet and Educator, is Dead. New York Times. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
56. ^ Women of History: Thelma Cazalet-Keir. ResearchGate. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
57. ^ In Memory of Candace Marie Csenscits. Women's Physique Publication. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
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61. ^ Glenn Fowler (January 16, 1989). "Robert Lekachman Is Dead at 68; Teacher and Writer of Economics". The New York Times. p. B 5. Retrieved May 8, 2024.
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65. ^ Actor-politician Prem Nazir dies. India Today. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
66. ^ George R. Tweed, 86; Eluded Foe on Guam. New York Times. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
67. ^ "TRey Wilson, 40, Dies; A Stage and Film Actor". The New York Times. January 17, 1989. p. B 11. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
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71. ^ Albin Krebs (January 19, 1989). "Bruce Chatwin, 48, Travel Writer And Author of 'Songlines,' Dies". The New York Times. p. B 16. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
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74. ^ Irving Resnick, Gambling Figure, 72. New York Times. Retrieved 12 May 2024.
75. ^ Devi Dja Dies; Directed Asian Dance Troupes. New York Times. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
76. ^ Norma Varden, 90, TV and Film Actress. New York Times. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
77. ^ Remembering Mete Adanir, a Turkish Cypriot icon. Cyprusscene.com. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
78. ^ POLISH LEADER CYRANKIEWICZ DIES AT 77. Washington Post. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
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80. ^ Alamgir Kabir remembered on his 32nd death anniv. Daily Sun. Retrieved 13 May 2024.
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