Deaths in September 1989

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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.

## September 1989

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* 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.

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

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* Franzisca Baruch, 87, German–Israeli graphic designer.
* Vice Admiral John Augustine Collins, 90, Royal Australian Navy officer.
* Augie Lio, 71, American NFL footballer.[1]
* 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.

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* 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.[2]
* Ronald Syme, 86, New Zealand-born British classicist and historian.[3]

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* 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.

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

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* Tom Blackaller, 49, American yachtsman and world championship gold medalist, heart attack.[4]
* Valery Goborov, 23, Soviet basketball player and Olympic gold medalist, car crash.

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

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* 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.

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* 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.

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

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* 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.[5]
* Don Walker, 81, American Broadway orchestrator and composer.[6]

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* 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.[7]
* John Yovicsin, 70, American NFL footballer, heart disease.

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* 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.

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* 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.[8]

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

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* Leon Culberson, 70, American Major League baseballer.[9]
* 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.

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* Jack Smith, 56, American filmmaker, actor and pioneer of underground cinema.[10]

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

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* Mihajlo Andrejević, 91, Serbian doctor, footballer and sports administrator.
* Chen Boda, 85, Chinese Communist journalist, professor and political theorist.[11]
* 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.

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* 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.[12]
* Corrado Gaipa, 64, Italian actor and voice actor.

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* Ambrose Folorunsho Alli, 60, Nigerian Executive Governor of defunct Nigerian state of Bendel State.
* Irving Berlin, 101, American composer and lyricist, heart attack.[13]
* Bob Calihan, 71, American NBL basketballer and coach.
* John E. Hunt, 80, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.[14]

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* Bradley Kincaid, 94, American folk singer and radio entertainer.
* John T. Koehler, 85, United States Assistant Secretary of the Navy, cancer.[15]
* William Traylor, 58, American film, stage and television actor, heart attack.

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

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* Pedro Amorim, 69, Brazilian international footballer.
* Darlington Hoopes, 93, American politician and lawyer, member of Pennsylvania House of Representatives.[16]
* Nowell Myres, 86, British archaeologist.

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* 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.

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* Tetsuzō Tanikawa, 94, Japanese philosopher.

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* 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.

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* 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.

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* Horace Alexander, 100, English Quaker teacher, writer, pacifist and ornithologist.[17]
* Oskar Davičo, 80, Yugoslavian novelist and poet.
* William M. Fairbank, 72, American physicist.[18]
* 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.[19]

## References

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1. ^ "Augie Lio, 71, Editor And Ex-Football Star". The New York Times. September 5, 1989. p. B 6. Retrieved March 23, 2024.
2. ^ Eric Pace (September 7, 1989). "Georges Simenon Dies at 86; Creator of Inspector Maigret". The New York Times. p. A 1. Retrieved March 23, 2024.
3. ^ "Ronald Syme, 86, Classics Scholar And Historian at Oxford, Is Dead". The New York Times. September 7, 1989. p. B 19. Retrieved March 23, 2024.
4. ^ Barbara Lloyd (September 8, 1989). "Tom Blackaller, 49, Competitor in America's Cup". The New York Times. p. D 19. Retrieved March 23, 2024.
5. ^ "Seamus Twomey, 70, a Leader of Provisional I.R.A.". The New York Times. September 14, 1989. p. D 24. Retrieved March 23, 2024.
6. ^ Richard F. Shepard (September 13, 1989). "Don Walker, 81, an Orchestrator Of Broadway Musical Comedies". The New York Times. p. B 8. Retrieved March 23, 2024.
7. ^ "Charles Russell, 85, Ex-Governor of Nevada". The New York Times. September 15, 1989. p. B 6. Retrieved March 23, 2024.
8. ^ "Robert Penn Warren, Poet and Author, Dies". The New York Times. September 16, 1989. p. 1 1. Retrieved March 23, 2024.
9. ^ "Leon Culberson Outfielder, 71". The New York Times. September 23, 1989. p. 1 6. Retrieved March 23, 2024.
10. ^ "Jack Smith, Film Maker, 57". The New York Times. September 22, 1989. p. A 28. Retrieved March 23, 2024.
11. ^ Eric Pace (September 30, 1989). "Chen Boda, 85, Leader of Chinese Purges in 60's". The New York Times. p. 1 29. Retrieved March 23, 2024.
12. ^ "Murry Dickson, Pitcher, 73". The New York Times. September 22, 1989. p. A 28. Retrieved July 4, 2023.
13. ^ Marilyn Berger (September 23, 1989). "Irving Berlin, Nation's Songwriter, Dies". The New York Times. p. 1 1. Retrieved March 23, 2024.
14. ^ "John E. Hunt, 79, Ex-Jersey Congressman". The New York Times. September 26, 1989. p. B 20. Retrieved March 23, 2024.
15. ^ "John Koehler, 85, Former Federal Official". The New York Times. September 27, 1989. p. D 26. Retrieved March 23, 2024.
16. ^ Glenn Fowler (September 27, 1989). "Darlington Hoopes, Socialist, 93; Twice Party Choice for President". The New York Times. p. D 27. Retrieved March 23, 2024.
17. ^ "Horace G. Alexander, A Quaker Writer, 100". The New York Times. October 5, 1989. p. B 22. Retrieved March 23, 2024.
18. ^ Walter Sullivan (October 3, 1989). "Prof. William N. Fairbank, 72, Physicist and Pioneer in Quarks". The New York Times. p. B 10. Retrieved March 23, 2024.
19. ^ John Rockwell (October 1, 1989). "Virgil Thomson, Composer, Critic and Collaborator With Stein, Dies at 92". The New York Times. p. 1 42. Retrieved March 23, 2024.

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