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Deaths in July 1989

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ23680475 ↗
Source-derived summary

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.

July 1989

1

William Ching, 75, American actor (D.O.A., Pat and Mike), heart failure.

Joan Cooper, 66, British actress, stomach cancer.

Dora Gaitskell, 88, Russian Empire–born British Labour Party politician, member of the House of Lords.

Veriano Ginesi, 82, Italian actor (Even Angels Eat Beans).

Eric Holland, 68, New Zealand politician, member of the House of Representatives.

Sumant Moolgaokar, 82, Indian industrialist, architect of Tata Motors.

António Morais, 54, Portuguese footballer and manager (FC Porto), car crash.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Deaths in July 1989” as wikimedia list article. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Deaths, July and Wikimedia can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as wikimedia list article. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q23680475. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1989.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Deaths in July 1989”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Deaths in July 1989 primary sources, Deaths in July 1989 archive and Deaths research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Deaths in July 1989” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.