1989 in music

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Deaths

• January 20 - Beatrice Lillie, Canadian actress and singer
• February 23 - Florencio Morales Ramos, singer and composer
• March 19 - Alan Civil, horn player
• March 20 - Archie Bleyer, US arranger and bandleader
• April 26 - Lucille Ball, US actress and singer
• May 10 - Woody Shaw
• July 16 - Herbert von Karajan, conductor
• August 1 - John Ogdon, pianist
• August 2 - Luiz Gonzaga, Brazilian musician
• August 21 - Raul Seixas, singer and songwriter
• September 14 - Perez Prado, 72, Cuban bandleader and composer
• September 15 - Jan DeGaetani, mezzo-soprano
• September 30 - Virgil Thomson, composer
• October 17 - Morteza Hannaneh, composer
• October 22 - Ewan MacColl, folk singer
• November 5 - Vladimir Horowitz, pianist
• November 16 - Rose Murphy, US singer and pianist
• December 6 - Sammy Fain, US composer
• December 26 - Sir Lennox Berkeley, composer