Famous People Who Died In 1989
Discover the most famous people died who died in the year 1989. This list includes people like Ted Bundy, Lucille Ball, Bette Davis, Hirohito, Laurence Olivier and many more. This list of celebrities is loosely sorted by popularity. People featured on this list, include political leaders, journalists, actresses and poets who died in 1989. This list includes people from United States, United Kingdom, Italy & Spain and many more countries.
Ted Bundy24 November 1946, American
Serial Killer
Lucille Ball06 August 1911, American
Comedienne, Actress
Hirohito29 April 1901, Japanese
Former Emperor of Japan
Rebecca Schaeffer06 November 1967, American
Actress & Model
Bette Davis05 April 1908, American
Actress
Laurence Olivier22 May 1907, British
Lee Van Cleef09 January 1925, American
Actor
Ferdinand Marcos11 September 1917, Filipino
Former President of the Philippines
John Cassavetes09 December 1929, Greek
Actor
Graham Chapman08 January 1941, British
Comedian
Samuel Beckett13 April 1906, Irish
Novelist, Playwright, Theater Director
Mel Blanc30 May 1908, American
Voice Actor, Radio Personality
Amanda Blake20 February 1929, American
Actress
Huey P. Newton17 February 1942, American
American political activist
Sugar Ray Robinson03 May 1921, American
Former Welterweight and Middleweight Boxing
Steven Stayner18 April 1965, American
Kidnap Victim
Frances Bavier14 December 1902, American
Actress
Jim Backus25 February 1913, American
Actor
Victor French04 December 1934, American
Actor
Daphne du Maurier13 May 1907, British
Abbie Hoffman30 November 1936, American
Anti-War Activist
William Shockley13 February 1910, American
Physicist
Alvin Ailey05 January 1931, American
Choreographer
Andrei Sakharov21 May 1921, Russian
The Father of Soviet nuclear bomb’
Diana Vreeland29 July 1906, American
Magazine editor, fashion journalist and special
A. Bartlett Giamatti04 April 1938, American
Academician, Scholar, Commissioner of Major League
R. D. Laing07 October 1927, French, Scottish
Psychiatrist
Konrad Lorenz07 November 1903, Austrian
Zoologist
Salvador Dali11 May 1904, Spanish
Surrealist Painter
Andrei Gromyko18 July 1909, Russian
Diplomat
C. L. R. James04 January 1901, Trinidadian, British
Journalist, Writer, Historian, Theorist, Socialist
Ayatollah Khomeini22 September 1902, Iranian
Led the Famous Iranian Revolution in 1979
Anatoly Slivko28 December 1938, Russian
Serial Killer
Ahmadou Ahidjo24 August 1924, Cameroonian
First President of Cameroon
Emilio Segrè30 January 1905, Italian, American
Physicist
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Hassan Fathy23 March 1900, Egyptian
Architect
Malcolm Cowley24 August 1898, American
Novelist & Poet
George Wells Beadle22 October 1903, American
Geneticist
Nicolae Ceaușescu26 January 1918, Romanian
Former President of Romania
Diptendu Pramanick18 July 1910, Indian
Bengali film personality
Suleyman Rustam27 November 1906, Azerbaijani
Poet
John R Hicks08 April 1904, British
Economist
Franklin J Schaffner30 May 1920, American
Director
Charles J Pedersen03 October 1904, American
Organic Chemist
James Bond04 January 1900, American
ornithologist
Ruhollah Khomeini24 September 1902, Iranian
Former Supreme Leader of Iran
Hu Yaobang20 November 1915, Taiwanese
Politician
Billy Martin16 May 1928, American
Baseball player, Screenwriter
Keith Whitley01 July 1955, American
Musician, Singer, Songwriter
Robert Mapplethorpe04 November 1946, American
Photographer, Film director
Sergio Leone03 January 1929, Italian
Film director, Screenwriter, Film producer, Actor,
Irving Berlin11 May 1888, American, Russian
Street artist, Composer, Pianist, Songwriter,
Osamu Tezuka03 November 1928, Japanese
Film director, Film producer, Mangaka, Animator,
Christine Jorgensen30 May 1926, American
Actor
Panchen Lama19 February 1938, Chinese
Tenth Panchen Lama
Herbert von Karajan05 April 1908, Austrian
Conductor, Music director
Janet Lee Bouvier03 December 1907, American
Socialite
Vladimir Horowitz01 October 1903, American
American-Russian classical pianist
Anthony Quayle07 September 1913, British
Stage actor, Film actor, Writer
Adolfo Constanzo01 November 1962, American
Serial killer
Georges Simenon13 February 1903, Belgian
Writer, Novelist, Journalist
Silvana Mangano21 April 1930, Italian
Actor, Model
Tim Richmond07 June 1955, American
Racing driver
Robert Penn Warren24 April 1905, American
poet, novelist, writer, literary critic,
Ewan MacColl25 January 1915, British
Singer, Playwright, Record producer, Composer
Earl Nightingale12 March 1921, American
Motivational speaker, Author, Actor, Writer, Radio
Zita of Bourbon-Parma09 May 1892, Italian
Billy Tipton29 December 1914, American
Pianist, Jazz musician, Saxophonist
Michel Aflaq09 January 1910, Syrian
politician, writer, sociologist, philosopher
János Kádár26 May 1912, Croatian, Hungarian
political
Thomas Bernhard09 February 1931, Austrian, Dutch
Writer, Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter, Poet
Leon Festinger08 May 1919, American
Psychologist, University teacher
Barbara W. Tuchman30 January 1912, American
Journalist, Historian, Writer, Biographer
Jerzy Kukuczka24 March 1948, Polish
Mountaineer
Dolores Ibárruri09 December 1895, Spanish
Politician, Journalist
Hermann Oberth25 June 1894, Austrian, Romanian
Physicist, Engineer, Essayist, Screenwriter
William Stephenson23 January 1897, Canadian
Boxer
Gaetano Scirea25 May 1953, Italian
Association football player, Scout, Association
Anton Diffring20 October 1916, German
actor
Peter Scott14 September 1909, British
Ornithologist, Illustrator, Painter, Postage stamp
Werner Best10 July 1903
Soldier, Politician, Diplomat, Jurist, Lawyer,
Carlos Arias Navarro11 December 1908, Spanish
Politician
Guy Laroche16 July 1921, French
Grand couturier
Albert Bormann02 September 1902, German
Politician
Virgil Thomson25 November 1896
conductor, composer, music critic, film score
Sándor Márai11 April 1900, Hungarian
Writer
Billy Lyall26 March 1953, British
Singer
Hamani Diori06 June 1916, Nigerien
Don the Beachcomber22 February 1907, American
Charles J. Pedersen03 October 1904, American
Chemist
Yusaku Matsuda21 September 1949, Japanese
Japanese actor
Jay Stewart06 September 1918, American
Actor
Martin Broszat14 August 1926, German
Historian, University teacher
Kateb Yacine02 August 1929, Algerian
writer, playwright, journalist
Barbara Tuchman30 January 1912, American
Historian
Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay16 June 1920, Indian