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The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.
February 1989
1
Blaze Foley , 39, American country music singer-songwriter, poet, and artist, shot.
Elaine de Kooning , 70, American artist.
Erik Persson (footballer) , 79, Swedish footballer and Olympian.
Nils Thedin , 77, Swedish businessman and civic leader.
2
3
John Cassavetes , 59, Greek-American actor.
[2]
Glenna Collett-Vare , 85, American amateur golfer.
Joan Grant , 81, English writer of historical novels.
Frank Hursley , 86, half of American husband-and-wife television screenwriting duo Frank and Doris Hursley.
Conny Jepsen , 68, Danish-Swedish badminton player.
Ebbe Langberg , 55, Danish actor and film director.
John McCauley , 89,
Australian Air Force senior commander, stroke.
Lionel Newman , 73, American conductor, pianist, and film and television composer, cardiac arrest.
[3]
4
Kenneth C. "Jethro" Burns , 68, American mandolinist, half of comedy duo Homer and Jethro, prostate cancer.
Thorkild Hansen , 62, Danish novelist.
Trevor Lucas , 45, Australian folk singer.
Grandizo Munis , 76, Spanish Trotskyist politician.
Ferris Webster , 76, American film editor.
5
André Cheuva , 80, French international footballer.
Emrys James , 60, Welsh Shakespearean actor.
Joe Morrison , 51, American NFL footballer and coach, congestive heart failure.
[4]
Joe Raposo , 51, American composer, singer and pianist.
6
Joseph L. Carrigg , 87, American politician, member of the US House of Representatives.
André Cayatte , 80, French filmmaker, writer and lawyer.
Ron Field , 55, American choreographer, dancer and director, brain lesions.
[5]
George F. Habach , 81, American mechanical and consulting engineer, business executive and inventor.
Undine Smith Moore , 84, American composer and professor of music, stroke.
King Tubby , 48, Jamaican sound engineer, shot.
Barbara W. Tuchman , 77, American historian and author.
[6]
7
Giuseppe Puca , 33, Italian criminal, murdered after shootout.
Bill Sewell , 72, American football player and coach.
William Campbell Steere , 81, American botanist known as an expert on
bryophytes .
[7]
Gilbert Simondon , 64, French philosopher.
John M. Wallace , 95, American banker, philanthropist and politician.
Prince Wilhelm Victor of Prussia , 69, German nobleman, soldier and diplomat.
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9
10
Irving Brown , 77, American trade unionist.
[9]
Wayne Hays , 77, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.
Grady Higginbotham , 96, American football and baseball player and coach.
Panini Ilangakoon , 69, Sri Lankan politician.
Dan Kelly , 52, Canadian-American sportscaster, lung cancer.
[10]
Herbert Ryman , 78, American artist and Disney Imagineer, cancer.
11
Charles L. Bolte , 93, United States Army general, stroke.
[11]
T. E. B. Clarke , 81, British screenwriter.
[12]
Leon Festinger , 69, American social psychologist.
[13]
Roland Gross , 80, American film editor and television editor.
George O'Hanlon , 76, American actor, comedian and writer, stroke.
Cecil C. Steiner , 92, American dentist.
Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan , 83, ruler of Abu Dhabi.
12
Thomas Bernhard , 58, Austrian novelist, playwright and poet, heart attack.
[14]
Maurice Cann , 77, British Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.
Attilio Dottesio , 79, Italian film character actor and singer.
Pat Finucane , 39, Irish lawyer.
Bill Speer , 46, Canadian professional ice hockey player, snowmobile accident.
13
Rosa Castillo , 78, Mexican sculptor, respiratory failure.
Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark , 79.
Dud Harris , 85, American footballer.
Hans Hellmut Kirst , 74, German novelist.
Dave Tarras , appr. 94, Ukrainian-American clarinetist and bandleader, pneumonia.
[15]
Zhou Tongqing , 81, Chinese optical physicist.
14
15
Hüseyin Akbaş , 56, Turkish wrestler and dual Olympic medalist.
Sita Devi, Maharani of Baroda , 71, the \"Indian Wallis Simpson\".
Sjafruddin Prawiranegara , 77, Indonesian statesman and economist, Prime Minister of Indonesia, heart attack.
Aleksandr Travin , 51, Russian basketballer.
Sabo Bakin Zuwo , 54, Nigerian politician, Governor of Kano State.
16
Andy Black , 72, Scottish international footballer.
Ida Ehre , 88, Austrian-German actor, theatre director and manager, heart attack.
[16]
17
Ian Fraser , 78, British judge.
R. B. Frost , 81, American football, basketball and baseball coach.
Lefty Gomez , 80, American Major League baseball player.
[17]
Guy Laroche , 67, French fashion designer.
[18]
Marguerite Roberts , 83, American screenwriter, arteriosclerosis.
Hanne Sobek , 88, German international footballer.
Mo Yingfeng , 51, Chinese novelist.
18
John Bailey , 76, British screen and TV actor.
Mildred Burke , 73, American professional wrestler, women's world champion, stroke.
Kathleen Hite , 71, American writer for radio and television.
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20
Stuart Black , 81, New Zealand sprinter and Olympian.
Zhang Dayu , 83, Chinese chemist.
Erika Köth , 63, German operatic soprano.
Betty Mars , 44, French singer and actress, Eurovision song contestant, suicide by jumping.
Manuel Rosas , 76, Mexican international footballer.
21
Harry Clarke , 83, Australian Rules footballer.
Robert Dorning , 75, English musician, vocalist, ballet dancer and actor, diabetes.
Sándor Márai , 88, Hungarian writer, poet and journalist.
Otar Taktakishvili , 64, Georgian composer, teacher and conductor.
Alex Thépot , 82, French international footballer and Olympian.
Lois Waring , 58, American figure skater.
22
Raymond Gower , 72, British member of Parliament.
Nadezhda Kosheverova , 86, Soviet film director and screenwriter.
Zhu Liangcai , 88, general in the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
Abel Wolman , 96, American engineer and educator.
[21]
Joan Woodbury , 73, American actress.
[22]
23
Aleks Çaçi , 72, Albanian author.
Fred Grimwade , 55, Australian politician, President of the Victorian Legislative Council.
Paul Richey , 72, English flying ace during the Second World War.
Tsepon W. D. Shakabpa , 82, Tibetan nobleman and statesman, Finance Minister of Tibet, stomach cancer.
[23]
Roy Tyner , 55, American NASCAR Grand National driver, gunshot.
24
Sparky Adams , 94, American Major League baseballer.
Norris Cotton , 88, American politician, US senator.
[24]
Joe Harvey , 70, English footballer and manager.
Ben Kish , 71, American NFL footballer.
Margo Lion , 89, Ottoman-French singer and actress.
Claude McGrath , 84, American college basketball coach.
Mallica Reynolds , 78, Jamaican artist and religious leader.
25
Angna Enters , 91, American dancer, mime, painter, writer, novelist and playwright.
[25]
Robert Foulk , 80, American television and film actor.
26
Roy Eldridge , 78, American jazz trumpeter.
[26]
Joseph Fenton , appr. 46, Northern Ireland estate agent, killed by Provisional Irish Republican Army.
Alexander Golling , 83, German actor, member of the Nazi Party.
Reunald Jones , 78, American jazz trumpeter.
Mouloud Mammeri , 71, Algerian writer, anthropologist and linguist, car accident.
Éloi Meulenberg , 76, Belgian professional road bicycle racer.
27
Paul Oswald Ahnert , 91, German astronomer.
Bayani Casimiro , 70, Filipino dancer.
Shiba P. Chatterjee , 86, Indian Professor of Geography.
Mauricio Garcés , 62, Mexican actor and comedian.
Kim Hyun-chul , 87, Korean independence activist and politician, Prime Minister of South Korea.
Göran Larsson , 56, Swedish swimmer.
Konrad Lorenz , 85, Austrian zoologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine.
[27]
Bas Paauwe , 77, Dutch international footballer.
Joe Silver , 66, American stage, television, film and radio actor, heart attack.
[28]
Boris Skossyreff , 92, Belarusian adventurer, swindler and pretender, tried to seize the monarchy of Andorra.
28
Halil Bıçakçı , 62, Turkish football manager.
Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira , 78, Brazilian lexicographer, philologist, translator and writer.
Hermann Burger , 46, Swiss poet, novelist and essayist, suicide.
Douglas Kendrew , 79, British Army general, international rugby union player, Governor of Western Australia.
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya , 100, Indian yoga teacher.
Karl Anderson , 88, American track and field athlete and Olympian.
Unknown date
References
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"Ondrej Nepela, Figure Skater, 38" .
The New York Times . February 7, 1989. p. B 8. Retrieved March 28, 2024 .
^ Albin Krebs (February 4, 1989).
"John Cassavetes, Major Director In U.S. Cinema Verite, Dies at 59" .
The New York Times . p. 1 32. Retrieved March 28, 2024 .
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"Lionel Newman, 73, Winner of an Oscar As a Film Composer" .
The New York Times . February 8, 1989. p. B 8. Retrieved March 28, 2024 .
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"Joe Morrison, 51, Former Giant" .
The New York Times . February 6, 1989. p. D 12. Retrieved March 28, 2024 .
^
Jennifer Dunning (February 7, 1989).
"Ron Field, a Tony Award Winner For His Choreography, Dies at 55" .
The New York Times . p. B 8. Retrieved March 28, 2024 .
^
Eric Pace (February 7, 1989).
"Barbara Tuchman Dead at 77; A Pulitzer-Winning Historian" .
The New York Times . p. A 1. Retrieved March 28, 2024 .
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"William C. Steere, 81, Botanist and Teacher" .
The New York Times . February 8, 1989. p. B 8. Retrieved July 4, 2023 .
^ Susan Heller Anderson (February 10, 1989).
"Webster B. Todd Is Dead at 89; Ex-Leader of Jersey Republicans" .
The New York Times . p. D 19. Retrieved March 28, 2024 .
^ Glenn Fowler (February 11, 1989).
"Irving Brown, 77, U.S. Specialist On International Labor Movement" .
The New York Times . p. 1 33. Retrieved March 28, 2024 .
^
"Dan Kelly, Hockey Announcer, 52" .
The New York Times . February 11, 1989. p. 1 33. Retrieved March 28, 2024 .
^ Peter B. Flint (February 13, 1989).
"Gen. Charles Bolte, Ex-Army Vice Chief Of Staff, Dies at 93" .
The New York Times . p. D 13. Retrieved March 28, 2024 .
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"T.E.B. Clarke, Writer, Dies at 81" .
The New York Times . February 15, 1989. p. A 24. Retrieved March 28, 2024 .
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"Leon Festinger, 69, New School Professor" .
The New York Times . February 12, 1989. p. 1 44. Retrieved March 28, 2024 .
^
Herbert Mitgang (February 17, 1989).
"Thomas Bernhard Is Dead at 58; His Last Play Enraged Austrians" .
The New York Times . p. D 19. Retrieved March 28, 2024 .
^
Jon Pareles (February 14, 1989).
"Dave Tarras, 95, Clarinetist, Dies; Purveyor of Klezmer Dance" .
The New York Times . p. B 6. Retrieved March 28, 2024 .
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"Ida Ehre, 88, Is Dead; West German Actress" .
The New York Times . February 18, 1989. p. 1 10. Retrieved March 28, 2024 .
^ Joseph Durso (February 18, 1989).
"Vernon (Lefty) Gomez, 80, Dies; Starred as a Pitcher for Yankees" .
The New York Times . p. 1 10. Retrieved March 28, 2024 .
^ Bernadine Morris (February 18, 1989).
"Guy Laroche, 67, French Designer And Founder of a Fashion House" .
The New York Times . p. 1 10. Retrieved March 28, 2024 .
^ Wolfgang Saxon (February 20, 1989).
"Eric F. Goldman, 73, a Historian And Presidential Consultant, Dies" .
The New York Times . p. A 16. Retrieved March 28, 2024 .
^
"Rosa Slade Gragg, 86, Civil Rights Advocate" .
The New York Times . February 24, 1989. p. B 4. Retrieved March 28, 2024 .
^ Walter Sullivan (February 24, 1989).
"Prof. Abel Wolman, 96, Is Dead; Led Efforts to Chlorinate Water" .
The New York Times . p. B 4. Retrieved March 28, 2024 .
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"Joan Woodbury, Actress, 73" .
The New York Times . February 24, 1989. p. B 4. Retrieved March 28, 2024 .
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"Tsepon W. D. Shakabpa, Tibetan Scholar, 82" .
The New York Times . February 25, 1989. p. 1 12. Retrieved March 28, 2024 .
^ Wolfgang Saxon (February 25, 1989).
"Norris Cotton, 88, Former New Hampshire Senator" .
The New York Times . p. 1 12. Retrieved March 28, 2024 .
^
Jennifer Dunning (March 1, 1989).
"Angna Enters, 82, Dancer, Mime And Artist Known for Characters" .
The New York Times . p. B 8. Retrieved March 28, 2024 .
^ John S. Wilson (February 28, 1989).
"Roy Eldridge, 78, Jazz Trumpeter Known for Intense Style, Is Dead" .
The New York Times . p. B 7. Retrieved March 28, 2024 .
^ Walter Sullivan (March 1, 1989).
"Konrad Lorenz, Pioneer in Study Of Animals' Behavior, Dies at 85" .
The New York Times . p. B 8. Retrieved March 28, 2024 .
^ Mervyn Rothstein (February 28, 1989).
"Joe Silver, 66, a Broadway Star And Actor in Film and Television" .
The New York Times . p. B 7. Retrieved March 28, 2024 .