Deaths in October 1989
The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.
October 1989
2
- Paola Barbara, 77, Italian actress.
- Vittorio Caprioli, 68, Italian actor, film director, and screenwriter, heart attack.
- Cousin Joe, 81, American singer.[1]
4
- Graham Chapman, 48, British actor and comedian (Monty Python), oropharyngeal cancer.[2]
- Betsy King Ross, 68, American actress.
- Secretariat, 19, American thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.[3]
6
- Bette Davis, 81, American actress (All About Eve, Dangerous, Jezebel), Oscar winner (1936, 1939), breast cancer.[4]
11
- M. King Hubbert, 86, American geologist and geophysicist, (Hubbert curve, Hubbert peak theory), pulmonary embolism.[5]
- Paul Shenar, 53, American actor (Scarface, The Secret of NIMH, Raw Deal), co-founder of the American Conservatory Theater, HIV/AIDS.[6]
12
- Jay Ward, 69, American animator and television producer (The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends, George of the Jungle, Crusader Rabbit), renal cancer.[7]
14
- Michael Carmine, 30, American actor (Batteries Not Included, Leviathan, Search for Tomorrow), heart attack.
15
- James Lee Barrett, 59, American screenwriter (The Greatest Story Ever Told, Smokey and the Bandit, The Truth About Spring), cancer.
- Scott O'Dell, 91, American novelist (Island of the Blue Dolphins, The King's Fifth, Sing Down the Moon), prostate cancer.[8]
16
- Cornel Wilde, 77, Hungarian-born American actor (A Song to Remember) and film director (The Naked Prey, No Blade of Grass), leukemia.
18
- Countess Georgina von Wilczek, 67, Austrian royal, Princess of Liechtenstein.[9][10]
19
20
- Sir Anthony Quayle, 76, British actor (Anne of the Thousand Days, Lawrence of Arabia, The Guns of Navarone), Emmy winner (1975), liver cancer.[12]
22
- Ewan MacColl, 74, British singer-songwriter and labor activist, complications following heart surgery.[13][14]
- Jacob Wetterling, 11, American murder victim.[15][16]
- Roland Winters, 84, American actor (Charlie Chan), stroke.[17]
25
- Mary McCarthy, 77, American novelist, critic, and political activist, lung cancer.[18]
26
- Charles J. Pedersen, 85, Korean-born American organic chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (1987), multiple myeloma.[19]
28
- Yuliya Solntseva, 88, Soviet actress and film director.[20]
30
- Pedro Vargas, 83, Mexican tenor and actor, diabetes.
References
- Doc Rock. "The 1980s". The Dead Rock Stars Club. Retrieved July 12, 2014.
- McCabe 2005, p. 251.
- Nack, William (June 4, 1990). "Pure Heart". Sports Illustrated Longform. Retrieved June 28, 2016.
- "'Feud:' 10 Things to Know About the Bette Davis Tell-All 'My Mother's Keeper'". The Hollywood Reporter. April 14, 2017. Retrieved March 11, 2019.
- Narvaez, Alfonso (October 17, 1989). "M. King Hubbert, 86, Geologist; Research Changed Oil Production". New York Times. Retrieved November 21, 2013.
- "AIDS at 25". San Francisco Chronicle. June 8, 2006. p. E1. Retrieved October 3, 2011.
Paul Shenar, died Oct. 11, 1989, at age 53. Actor. Part of the American Conservatory Theater's founding acting company, Shenar appeared in more than 40 plays with ACT in the 1970s, including appearances as Hamlet, Oedipus and in "Tiny Alice."
- Folkart, Burt A. (October 13, 1989). "Jay Ward Dies; He Created Rocky, Bullwinkle for TV". Los Angeles Times.
- McDowell, Edwin (October 17, 1989). "Scott O'Dell, a Children's Author Of Historical Fiction, Dies at 91". The New York Times. Retrieved April 10, 2008.
- "Princess Gina", The New York Times, Vaduz, Liechtenstein, October 18, 1989
- "Princess Gina, Liechtenstein Princess", The Washington Post, October 19, 1989
- Townsend, Martin (October 16, 2016). "Level 42 guitarist Mark King: I've always had this capacity for not panicking". Express.co.uk. Retrieved May 9, 2020.
- "Quayle tough guy on and off screen", The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 October 1989, p. 5.
- "Ewan MacColl biography". Oxford DNB. Retrieved February 14, 2014.
- "Ewan's Biography". Peggyseeger.com. Retrieved September 23, 2009.
- Ross, Jenna; Brooks, Jennifer (September 4, 2016). "Paynesville reeling with news about Jacob". Star Tribune. Retrieved September 4, 2016.
- "Authorities confirm: Jacob found". SCTimes. Saint Cloud, Minnesota. September 4, 2016. Retrieved September 4, 2016.
- DeLong, Thomas A. (1996). Radio Stars: An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary of 953 Performers, 1920 through 1960. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7864-2834-2. P. 287.
- "Mary McCarthy, 77, Is Dead; Novelist, Memoirist and Critic". The New York Times. October 29, 1989. Retrieved July 7, 2008.
Mary McCarthy, one of America's pre-eminent women of letters, died of cancer yesterday at New York Hospital. She was 77 years old and lived in Castine, Maine, and Paris.
- "The Benner, Cleaveland and Related Families – Obituary of Charles Pedersen". rgcle.com. Archived from the original on February 8, 2011. Retrieved November 7, 2010.
- "СОЛНЦЕВА Юлия Ипполитовна (1901 – 1989)". Moscow Tombs.
Sources
- McCabe, Bob (2005). The Life of Graham, The authorised biography of Graham Chapman. London: Orion Books. ISBN 978-0-7528-5773-2.
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