Famous Deaths for October 1989
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◀ 1988 1989 1990 ▶ | ||||||
Months in 1989: January February March April May June July August September November December
Deaths 1 - 22 of 22
2nd - Liesbeth Ribbius Peletier, Neth's 1st female advisor of State, dies
3rd - Joseph Wybran, Belgian physician/Jews foreman, murdered
4th - Graham Chapman, comedian (Monty Python), dies of cancer at 48
4th - Norman Yardley, cricketer (England captain 1947-50), dies
4th - Secretariat, American race horse (b. 1970)
6th - Bette [Ruth E] Davis, actress (All About Eve, White Mama), dies at 81
9th - Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (b. 1940)
11th - Paul Shenar, actor (Deadly Force, Dream Lover), dies at 53
11th - M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (b. 1904)
12th - Franco, [Francis Luambo/"Makiadi"], Zaire composer/music, dies at 51
12th - Jay Ward, American cartoonist (Rocky & His Friends), dies at 69 of kidney cancer
14th - Michael Carmine, actor (Batteries Not Included), dies at 30
16th - Cornel Wilde, actor (Saadia, Comic, Beach Red, Gargoyles), dies at 74
20th - Anthony Quayle, actor (Moses, Operation Crossbow), dies at 76
21st - Jean Image, Hungarian-born French animator (b. 1910)
22nd - Roland Winters, actor (Jet Pilot, Meet Millie), dies at 84
23rd - Armida, Mexican-American stage, vaudeville and film actress (b. 1911)
25th - Gerard Walschap, Flemish writer (Men of Goods), dies
25th - Mary McCarthy, author (Group), dies, at 77
26th - Andrew Roberts, cricketer (7 Tests for New Zealand 1976), dies
26th - Charles J. Pedersen, American Nobel laureate (b. 1904)
31st - Conrad Beck, composer, dies at 88

