Deaths in March 1989

The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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.

March 1989

1

• Mukul Dey, 93, Indian artist (drypoint-etching).
• Vasantdada Patil, 71, Indian politician, Governor of Rajasthan.
• Odie Payne, 62, American blues drummer.
• Frank W. Preston, 92, English-American engineer, ecologist and conservationist.
• Mark M. Ravitch, 78, American surgeon (surgical staples), colon and prostate cancer.

2

• Liviu Cornel Babeș, 46, Romanian electrician and painter, committed suicide by self-immolation as a political protest.
• John Bryans, British actor (Blake's 7).
• Luigi Firpo, 74, Italian historian and politician.
• Tamás Kertész, 59, Hungarian international footballer and coach (Ferencvárosi, Hungary).
• Ernest Steven Monteiro, 84, Singaporean physician, Singapore Ambassador to the United States, Cambodia and Brazil, liver failure.

3

• Richard B. Morris, 84, American historian, melanoma.
• Dong Qiwu, 89, Chinese general in the People's Liberation Army.
• Vytautas Vičiulis, 37, Lithuanian painter, self-immolation as a political protest.

4

• Agha Ibrahim Akram, 65, Pakistani army general.
• Tiny Grimes, 72, American jazz and R&B guitarist, meningitis.
• Viktor Nikiforov, 57, Soviet ice hockey player and Olympic gold medalist.
• Edward Makuka Nkoloso, 69–70, member of Zambian resistance movement, planned to beat the U.S. and Soviet Union to the moon.

5

• Prithvi Singh Azad, 96, Indian independence activist, founder of Ghadar Party.
• Daniel Webster Cluff, 72, United States Coast Guard officer, rescued thirty-two survivors from SS Pendleton.
• James Edwin Doyle, 86, American advertising executive, co-founder of Doyle Dane Bernbach agency, emphysema.
• Richmond Barthé, 88, American sculptor of busts.

6

• Harry Andrews, 77, English actor (The Hill, The Agony and the Ecstasy).
• Alla Ilchun, 62, Chinese-born Kazakh fashion model.
• Raja Hossain Khan, 50–51, Bangladeshi composer and violinist, road accident.
• Franca Marzi, 62, Italian film actress (Nights of Cabiria).
• Amir Habibullah Khan Saadi, 79, Indian-born Pakistani freedom fighter.

7

• Paul Boesch, 76, American professional wrestler and promoter (Houston Wrestling), heart attack.
• Jerry Bywaters, 82, American artist, museum director and art critic.
• Jean Colin, 83, English actress.
• Avis DeVoto, 84, American culinary editor and cook, pancreatic cancer.
• Gi Hyeong-do, 28–29, Korean poet (The Black Leaf in My Mouth).
• Judson Philips, 85, American writer, emphysema.
• Norman Saunders, 82, American commercial artist.
• Jack Stanton, 67, American NBL basketballer (Anderson Duffey Packers).
• Karel Velebný, 57, Czech jazz musician and composer.

8

• Elisaveta Bykova, 75, Soviet chess player and dual Women's World Chess Champion.
• Charles Exbrayat, 82, French fiction writer.
• Stuart Hamblen, 80, American singer and songwriter (This Ole House), Billy Graham crusader, brain cancer.
• Herman Kogan, 74, American journalist (Chicago Daily News, Chicago Sun-Times).
• Robert Lacoste, 90, French socialist politician, member of the National Assembly and senator.
• Chhuttan Lal Meena, 68, Indian politician, Member of Parliament.
• Stanley Wijesundera, 65, Sri Lankan professor of Biochemistry, vice chancellor of the University of Colombo, assassinated.

9

• Kermit Beahan, 70, American officer in the U.S. Air Force, bombardier on the Bockscar atomic bomb flight, heart attack.
• André Hornez, 83, French lyricist (C'est si bon; Rien dans les mains, rien dans les poches).
• Robert Mapplethorpe, 42, American photographer, complications from AIDS.
• Sam Melville, 52, American film and television actor, heart failure.
• Sean O'Sullivan, 37, Canadian politician and Roman Catholic priest, leukemia.
• Mihemed Şêxo, 41, Kurdish folk singer.
• Hilda Strike, 78, Canadian track athlete and Olympic medalist.

10

• Selwyn Jepson, 89, English mystery and detective author and screenwriter (Man Running).
• Maurizio Merli, 49, Italian film actor (Catene, Violent Rome), myocardial infarction.

11

• William Challee, 84, American actor (Five Easy Pieces).
• Joseph Ferriola, 61, American mobster, boss of the Chicago Outfit, complications after heart transplant.
• James Kee, 71, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• John J. McCloy, 93, American diplomat and presidential advisor, Assistant Secretary of War, pulmonary edema.
• Edward A. Weeks, 91, American writer, editor of The Atlantic.

12

• Maurice Evans, 87, English actor (Planet of the Apes), (Bewitched), heart failure.
• Jakob Gimpel, 82, Polish-born concert pianist.
• Kiyoshi Mutō, 86, Japanese architect and structural engineer (Keio Plaza Hotel, Kasumigaseki Building).
• John Baptist Lucius Noel, 99, British mountaineer and filmmaker (1924 British Mount Everest expedition).
• Chet Soda, 80, American businessman, general manager of the Oakland Raiders.
• Carlos Terry, 32, American NBA basketballer (Washington Bullets), car accident.
• Luigi Tosi, 73, Italian actor.

13

• L. E. Baynes, 86, English aeronautical engineer, developed the Scud gliders.
• Carl Dahlhaus, 60, German musicologist, kidney failure.
• Carl von Horn, 85, Swedish Army general.
• Aubrey Menen, 76, British author and theatre critic.
• James G. O'Hara, 63, American soldier and politician, member of U.S. House of Representatives, lung cancer.
• Fahrettin Özdilek, 90–91, Turkish Army general and politician, acting Prime Minister of Turkey.

14

• Edward Abbey, 62, American author (The Monkey Wrench Gang, Desert Solitaire), environmentalist and anarchist, complications from surgery.
• Stephen Bechtel Sr., 88, American president of Bechtel Corporation.
• Charles Roy Henderson, 77, American statistician (Best linear unbiased prediction), pioneer in animal breeding.
• Happy Humphrey, 62, American wrestler, heaviest professional wrestler of all time (364 kg), heart attack.
• Mark Kilroy, 21, American kidnapped and murdered in Mexico.
• Omar Knedlik, 72, American inventor and businessman (ICEE frozen drink).
• Timothy Meyers, 43, American actor (Grease), AIDS.
• Egon Morbitzer, 62, German violinist, concertmaster of Staatskapelle Berlin, cancer.
• Gladys Pyle, 98, American politician, U.S. Senator.
• Zita of Bourbon-Parma, 96, last Queen of Hungary and Empress of Austria, wife of Charles I.

15

• Henry Cass, 85, British director.
• Muhammad Jameel Didi, 73, Maldivian politician, Minister of Justice and Attorney General.

16

• Raymond Affleck, 66, Canadian architect, founder of architectural firm Arcop (Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver).
• Georges Blond, 82, French writer, sympathiser with fascism.
• Eddie Buczynski, 42, American archaeologist and follower of Wicca, parasitic infection.
• Jesús María de Leizaola, 92, Spanish politician, President of the Basque government in exile.
• George Lynn, 73, American composer, conductor and pianist.
• Marcus Morris, 73, English Anglican priest, founded the Eagle weekly comic.
• Alan Redpath, 82, British-American evangelist and author.

17

• Beulah Ream Allen, 92, American nurse and physician, civilian physician during World War II (Medal of Freedom).
• Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna, 69, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, consequence of surgery.
• Merritt Butrick, 29, American actor (Square Pegs), toxoplasmosis complicated by AIDS.
• Jacob Pieter Den Hartog, 87, Dutch-American mechanical engineer.
• George Vernon Russell, 83, American architect in California.

18

• Helen Beebe, 80, American teacher of the deaf and pioneer of auditory-verbal therapy.
• Charles Billingslea, 74, American general in the U.S. Army (Distinguished Service Cross), emphysema.
• Harold Jeffreys, 97, British geophysicist, opponent of plate tectonics.
• Ryūzō Kikushima, 75, Japanese writer and film producer (Throne of Blood, The Hidden Fortress).
• Piet Kruiver, 51, Dutch international footballer (Feyenoord, PSV Eindhoven, Netherlands).
• George P. Mahoney, 87, American politician.
• William Olander, 38, American curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, AIDS.
• Duane Purvis, 76, American footballer and javelin thrower.
• Max Tishler, 82, American organic chemist, emphysema.

19

• Alan Civil, 59, British horn player (BBC Symphony Orchestra), liver and kidney failure.
• Normie Glick, 61, American NBA basketballer (Minneapolis Lakers).
• Ethel Hays, 97, American syndicated cartoonist (Raggedy Ann).
• Charles Lamb, 88, British stage, film, radio and television actor (Mrs Dale's Diary).
• Valérie Quennessen, 31, French theatre and film actress (Summer Lovers, Conan the Barbarian), car accident.
• Joe Rose, 23, Canadian LGBT rights activist, murdered.

20

• Archie Bleyer, 79, American song arranger and bandleader (Gordon MacRae show), and founder of Cadence Records.
• Alan Gifford, 78, American-born actor in the UK (2001: A Space Odyssey).
• Francis Russell, 79, American author (Sacco-Vanzetti case).
• Dina Sfat, 50, Brazilian actress.

21

• Sneeze Achiu, 86, American NFL footballer (Dayton Triangles).
• David Cairns, 79, English Navy rear-admiral, president of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.
• Otis Douglas, 77, American NFL footballer and coach (Philadelphia Eagles, Calgary Stampeders).
• Louis Dupree, 63, American archaeologist and anthropologist, lung cancer.
• Milton Frome, 80, American actor, congestive heart failure.
• John Kenneth Hilliard, 87, American acoustical and electrical engineer.

22

• Park Am, 64, South Korean actor.
• Wally Heider, 66, American recording engineer and recording studio owner.
• Gino Piserchio, 44, American actor, composer and musician, AIDS.

23

• F. W. S. Craig, 69, Scottish psephologist, suicide.
• Adrien Deschryver, 49, Belgian photographer and conservationist, chief warden of Kahuzi-Biega National Park.
• Pavle Gregorić, 96, Yugoslavian communist politician, Minister for Croatia.
• George Marthins, 83, Indian hockey player and gold medalist.
• Bob McTaggart, 43, Scottish politician, Member of Parliament, heart attack.
• Berl Repetur, 86–87, Soviet-born Zionist activist and Israeli politician.

24

• Robert Arundell, 84, British diplomat, Governor of the Windward Islands and Barbados.
• Arnett Cobb, 70, American tenor saxophonist.
• Reuben David, 76, Indian zoologist, founder of Kankaria Zoo.
• Edward P. Hurt, 89, American football, basketball and track coach.
• St. Julien R. Marshall, 85, American officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, cardiopulmonary arrest.

25

• Sa'id Mufti, 90, Jordanian politician, Prime Minister of Jordan.
• C. L. Anandan, 55, Indian actor and producer (Vijayapuri Veeran).
• Reginald Le Borg, 86, Austrian film director (San Diego, I Love You), heart attack.

26

• Albert Guérisse, 77, Belgian general and resistance leader.
• Māris Liepa, 52, Latvian ballet dancer
• Marina Ried, 67, Russian-German stage and film actress.
• Lewis William Walt, 76, United States Marine Corps four-star general.
• Harry Wicks, 83, British socialist activist (Communist Party of Great Britain).
• Hai Zi, 25, Chinese poet, suicide.

27

• May Allison, 98, American stage and silent screen actress (David Harum), respiratory failure.
• Don Basham, 62, Bible teacher and author.
• Malcolm Cowley, 90, American writer, heart attack.
• Scott Safran, 21, American video gamer, set world-record score on Asteroids, fall from building.
• Cláudio Santoro, 69, Brazilian composer, conductor and violinist.
• Jack Starrett, 52, American actor and film director (Blazing Saddles, First Blood), kidney failure.

28

• Joseph Adefarasin, 67, Nigerian lawyer and High Court judge.
• Nick Bremigan, 43, American Major League baseball umpire (American League), heart attack.
• Fang Chih, 93, Chinese politician, diplomat, author and Kuomintang official.
• William D. Cox, 79, American businessman and sports executive (Philadelphia Phillies, International Soccer League).
• Ian Dalrymple, 85, British screenwriter, film director and producer (The Lion Has Wings, The Wooden Horse).
• Richard H. Ellis, 69, United States Air Force general, commander in chief of the Strategic Air Command.
• Josiah Zion Gumede, 69, president of unrecognised state of Zimbabwe Rhodesia.
• Arthur Hill, 94, Irish peer, Marquess of Downshire.
• Madeleine Ozeray, 80, Belgian stage and film actress, cancer.
• Patrick Vallençant, 42, French alpinist and skier, pioneer in ski mountaineering, abseiling accident.
• Lockwood West, 83, British actor, cancer.
• Robert J. Wilke, 74, American film and television actor.

29

• Abdullah al-Ahdal, Imam of Belgium, shot.
• Bernard Blier, 73, Argentina-born French actor.
• Chico Che, 43, Mexican musician, singer and songwriter, stroke.
• Fernand Gambiez, 86, French Army general.
• Aleksandr Prokopenko, 35, Belarusian international footballer (Dinamo Minsk, Soviet Union), choked on food.
• Xiao Jinguang, 86, Chinese fleet admiral, Commander of People's Liberation Army Navy, colon cancer.
• Nicolae Steinhardt, 76, Romanian writer and Orthodox monk.
• Charles Taylor, 78, English businessman and politician, Member of Parliament.

30

• Bill Chappell, 67, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, bone cancer.
• Peter D'Aguiar, 76–77, Guyanese-Portuguese businessman and politician, Minister of Finance.
• Mike Sekowsky, 65, American comics artist (Wonder Woman).
• Arto Tolsa, 43, Finnish international footballer (Beerschot, KTP, Finland).
• Huang Wei, 85, Chinese Nationalist military general.

31

• Edgar C. Erickson, 92, United States Army major general, Chief of the National Guard Bureau.
• Francis H. Russell, 84, American diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia, Ghana and New Zealand, heart attack.
• Millard Sheets, 81, American artist and architectural designer.
• Carlos Tobalina, 63–64, Peruvian-born American adult filmmaker and actor, suicide.

Unknown date

• Juliette Compton, 89, American actress (That Hamilton Woman).
• Michael Lubbock, 82, British military officer and businessman.
• Allan H. Mogensen, 87, American industrial engineer.
• Yoshio Shiga, 88, member of the Japanese Communist Party.