1989 suicides

The list 1989 suicides includes Richard Quine, Lindsay Crosby, Abbie Hoffman, Sándor Márai and Tim Hovey. The list consists of 68 members.

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1989

Calendar year

1.

Richard Quine

American actor

Overview: Richard Quine (November 12, 1920 – June 10, 1989) was an American director, actor, and singer.

Date of birth: 12 November 1920

Date of death: 10 June 1989

Age: 68 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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20th-century American screenwriters 1,746T

20th-century male singers 5,297T

20th-century American male writers 6,911T
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Lindsay Crosby

American actor and singer (1938–1989)

Overview: Lindsay Harry Crosby (January 5, 1938 – December 11, 1989) was an American actor and singer. He was the youngest of four sons from Bing Crosby's first marriage to Dixie Lee (his older brothers being Gary ...

Date of birth: 5 January 1938

Date of death: 11 December 1989

Age: 51 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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Male actors of Irish descent 682T

Male actors of English descent 380T

20th-century male singers 5,297T
3.

Abbie Hoffman

American activist

Overview: Abbot Howard Hoffman (November 30, 1936 – April 12, 1989), better known as Abbie Hoffman, was an American political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies") and was ...

Date of birth: 30 November 1936

Date of death: 12 April 1989

Age: 52 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Male

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American anti-capitalists 93T

American male writers who committed suicide 108T

20th-century psychologists 972T
4.

Sándor Márai

Hungarian writer

Overview: Sándor Márai [] (originally Sándor Károly Henrik Grosschmid de Mára, archaically English: Alexander Márai; 11 April 1900 – 21 February 1989) was a Hungarian writer and journalist.

Date of birth: 11 April 1900

Date of death: 22 February 1989

Age: 88 (age at death)

Nationality: Hungarian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Writers from Košice 11T

Hungarian male novelists 60T

Hungarian male writers who committed suicide 8T
5.

Tim Hovey

child actor

Overview: Tim Hovey (June 19, 1945 – September 9, 1989) was a former American child actor during the 1950s. He later became a musician, road manager and an audio engineer for rock bands.

Date of birth: 19 June 1945

Date of death: 9 September 1989

Age: 44 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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Rock musicians who committed suicide 104T

20th-century American male musicians 6,873T

20th-century male musicians 12,801T
6.

Ricky Berry

American basketball player

Overview: Ricky Alan Berry (October 6, 1964 – August 14, 1989) was an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Sacramento Kings.

Date of birth: 6 October 1964

Date of death: 14 August 1989

Age: 24 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Basketball

Gender: Male

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Medalists at the 1987 Pan American Games 535T

Pan American Games medalists in basketball 531T

People from Fair Oaks, California 29T
7.

Jay Stewart

American game show announcer

Overview: Jay Stewart Fix (September 6, 1918 - September 17, 1989), known professionally as Jay Stewart, was an American television and radio announcer known primarily for his work on game shows. One of his lon ...

Date of birth: 6 September 1918

Date of death: 17 September 1989

Age: 71 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: TV Personality

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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Let's Make a Deal 14T

People from Madison County, Indiana 17T

Butler University alumni 103T
8.

Betty Mars

Musical artist

Overview: Betty Mars (born Yvette Baheux, 30 July 1944 in Paris – 20 February 1989 in Paris) was a French singer and actress, best known for her participation in the 1972 Eurovision Song Contest.

Date of birth: 30 July 1944

Date of death: 20 February 1989

Age: 44 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

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20th-century French women singers 185T

20th-century women singers 3,624T

20th-century French singers 381T
9.

Gerald Scarpelli

American mobster

Overview: Gerald Hector Scarpelli (1938 - May 2, 1989) was a hitman for the Chicago Outfit criminal organization who later became a government witness.

Date of birth: 1938

Date of death: 2 May 1989

Age: 50 (age at death)

Nationality: American

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Suicides by hanging in Illinois 4T

Witnesses against the Chicago Outfit 3T

Chicago Outfit informants 5T
10.

Adolfo Constanzo

American serial killer

Overview: Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo (November 1, 1962 – May 6, 1989) was an American serial killer, drug dealer and cult leader. His nickname was El Padrino de Matamoros (The Godfather of Matamoros).

Date of birth: 1 November 1962

Date of death: 6 May 1989

Age: 26 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Gender: Male

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Male serial killers 1,140T

LGBT people from Florida 172T

Bisexual men 489T
11.

Vincent Crane

British musician

Overview: Vincent Crane (born Vincent Rodney Cheesman; 21 May 1943 – 14 February 1989) was an English keyboardist who was best known as the organist for The Crazy World of Arthur Brown and Atomic Rooster. Crane ...

Date of birth: 21 May 1943

Date of death: 14 February 1989

Age: 45 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Pianist

Gender: Male

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Rock musicians who committed suicide 104T

Atomic Rooster members 13T

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown members 6T
12.

Marc Lépine

Canadian mass murderer (1964–1989)

Overview: Marc Lépine (born Gamil Rodrigue Liass Gharbi; October 26, 1964 – December 6, 1989) was a Canadian mass murderer from Montreal, Quebec who, in 1989, murdered fourteen women, and wounded ten women and ...

Date of birth: 26 October 1964

Date of death: 6 December 1989

Age: 25 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Criminal

Gender: Male

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Criminals from Montreal 35T

Burials at Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery 302T

1980s murders in Canada 15T
13.

Donnie Moore

American baseball player

Overview: Donnie Ray Moore (February 13, 1954 – July 18, 1989) was an American relief pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played for the Chicago Cubs (1975, 1977–79), St. Louis Cardinals (1980), Milwaukee ...

Date of birth: 13 February 1954

Date of death: 18 July 1989

Age: 35 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Baseball

Gender: Male

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People from Anaheim Hills, California 17T

Ranger Rangers baseball players 9T

Paris Dragons baseball players 16T
14.

Bill Cody Jr.

American film actor

Overview: Bill Cody Jr. (April 18, 1925 – August 11, 1989) was an American motion picture child actor.

Date of birth: 18 April 1925

Date of death: 11 August 1989

Age: 64 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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American male actors who committed suicide 118T

Male actors who committed suicide 279T

Male actors from Los Angeles, California 1,337T
15.

Roy Tyner

American racing driver

Overview: William Leroy "Roy" Tyner (January 3, 1934 – February 23, 1989) was a Native American NASCAR Grand National driver from Red Springs, North Carolina, United States.

Date of birth: 3 January 1934

Date of death: 23 February 1989

Age: 55 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Diving

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20th-century American racing drivers 1,299T

Pages containing blacklisted links 1,510T

People from Red Springs, North Carolina 4T
16.

Evan McCaskey

American musician

Overview: Evan McCaskey was an American guitarist who played for the bands Exodus and Blind Illusion.

Date of death: 1989

Nationality: American

Occupation: Guitarist

Gender: Male

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Rock musicians who committed suicide 104T

20th-century American male musicians 6,873T

20th-century male musicians 12,801T
17.

Paul Chung

Hong Kong actor

Overview: Paul Chung (5 April 1959 – 1 September 1989) was a Hong Kong actor, MC (Master of Ceremonies) and a DJ in the early 1980s. He committed suicide on 1 September 1989.

Date of birth: 5 April 1959

Date of death: 1 September 1989

Age: 30 (age at death)

Nationality: Chinese

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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Suicides by jumping in Hong Kong 4T

Hong Kong male actors who committed suicide 2T

20th-century Hong Kong male actors 244T
18.

Doug Smith (jockey)

British jockey

Overview: Doug Smith (21 November 1917 – April 1989) was an English flat racing jockey and trainer. During his career he was champion jockey 5 times (1954, '55, '56, '58, '59) finishing second on the rider's list ...

Date of birth: 1918

Date of death: 1989

Age: 70 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Jockey

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Suicides by drowning in England 21T

British Champion apprentice jockeys 35T

British Champion flat jockeys 43T
19.

Andrey Prokofyev

Soviet athlete

Overview: Andrey Vassilyevich Prokofyev (Russian: Андрей Васильевич Прокофьев; 6 June 1959, Sverdlovsk, USSR – 19 June 1989, Sverdlovsk, USSR) was a Soviet athlete, winner of a gold medal in the 4 × 100 m relay ...

Date of birth: 6 June 1959

Date of death: 19 June 1989

Age: 30 (age at death)

Nationality: Russian

Occupation: Track and Field

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

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Medalists at the 1979 Summer Universiade 133T

Competitors at the 1986 Goodwill Games 302T

Medalists at the 1983 Summer Universiade 177T
20.

Abbas Nalbandian

Iranian writer

Overview: Abbas Nalbandian (Persian: عباس نعلبندیان‎) (1947 – 28 May 1989) was an Iranian playwright who wrote several absurdist plays in the 1960s and 1970s. His plays had very long and strange names. For ...

Date of birth: 1947

Date of death: 28 May 1989

Age: 41 (age at death)

Nationality: Iranian

Occupation: Playwright

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Male suicides 1,509T

Iranian men 6T

Dramatists and playwrights who committed suicide 15T