Famous Deaths for August 1989
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Results 1 - 24 of 24
1st - John Ogdon, English pianist/composer, dies at 52
5th - Ralph Meeker, actor (Kiss Me Deadly, Gentle Giant), dies at 68
7th - Mickey Leland, (Rep-D-Tx), & 15 others dies in plane crash in Ethiopia
11th - John Meillon, actor (Wild Duck, Crocodile Dundee), dies
12th - William Shockley, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
12th - Samuel Okwaraji, Nigerian footballer (b. 1964)
13th - Tim Richmond, race car driver (won 13 NASCAR races), dies of AIDS
13th - Larkin Smith, U.S. Representative from Mississippi (b. 1944)
15th - F de Jong Edz, Dutch historian/director (IISG), dies
16th - Amanda Blake, actress (Gunsmoke), dies at 58
18th - Bert Oosterbosch, cyclist, dies
18th - Luis Carlos Galan, Colombian presidential candidate, murdered
21st - Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
22nd - Robert Grondelaers, Belgian cyclist (b. 1933)
23rd - Helen le Clerq, Dutch dancer, dies
23rd - Ronald Laing, British psychiatrist (anti-psychiatry), dies
23rd - Yusef Hawkins, shot by 30 whites in Bensonhurst because he's black
23rd - Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese writer and academic (b. 1944)
25th - Gunnar Johnsen Berg, composer, dies at 80
26th - Henk Heidweiller, ambassador of Suriname, dies
26th - Irving Stone, US writer (Love is Eternal, Lust for Life), dies
29th - Peter Scott, English explorer, naturalist, and painter (b. 1909)
30th - Joe De Santis, dies at 80
30th - Seymour Krim, American journalist, essayist, and literary critic (b. 1922)
