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 BundyAmerican
Serial Killer
Rebecca SchaefferAmerican
Actress & Model
Lucille BallAmerican
Comedienne, Actress
Graham ChapmanBritish
Comedian
HirohitoJapanese
Former Emperor of Japan
Bette DavisAmerican
Actress
Laurence OlivierBritish
Ferdinand MarcosFilipino
Former President of the Philippines
Nicolae CeaușescuRomanian
Former President of Romania
Lee Van CleefAmerican
Actor
Huey P. NewtonAmerican
American political activist
Sugar Ray RobinsonAmerican
Former Welterweight and Middleweight Boxing
Samuel BeckettIrish
Novelist, Playwright, Theater Director
John CassavetesGreek
Actor
Mel BlancAmerican
Voice Actor, Radio Personality
Amanda BlakeAmerican
Actress
Steven StaynerAmerican
Kidnap Victim
Victor FrenchAmerican
Actor
Frances BavierAmerican
Actress
Abbie HoffmanAmerican
Anti-War Activist
Hu YaobangChinese
Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of
Keith WhitleyAmerican
Singer
Jim BackusAmerican
Actor
Daphne du MaurierBritish
Paul ShenarAmerican
Actor
Alvin AileyAmerican
Choreographer
Blaze FoleyAmerican
Singer
William ShockleyAmerican
Physicist
Joe SpinellAmerican
Actor
Georges SimenonBelgian
Novelist
Andrei SakharovRussian
The Father of Soviet nuclear bomb’
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Diana VreelandAmerican
Magazine editor, fashion journalist and special
Anthony QuayleBritish
Actor
A. Bartlett GiamattiAmerican
Academician, Scholar, Commissioner of Major League
R. D. LaingFrench, Scottish
Psychiatrist
Konrad LorenzAustrian
Zoologist
Janet Lee BouvierAmerican
Socialite
Ayatollah KhomeiniIranian
Led the Famous Iranian Revolution in 1979
Andrei GromykoRussian
Diplomat
C. L. R. JamesTrinidadian, British
Journalist, Writer, Historian, Theorist, Socialist
Ahmadou AhidjoCameroonian
First President of Cameroon
Salvador DaliSpanish
Surrealist Painter
Anatoly SlivkoRussian
Serial Killer
Emilio SegrèItalian, American
Physicist
Hassan FathyEgyptian
Architect
Malcolm CowleyAmerican
Novelist & Poet
George Wells BeadleAmerican
Geneticist
Diptendu PramanickIndian
Bengali film personality
John R HicksBritish
Economist
Suleyman RustamAzerbaijani
Poet
Franklin J SchaffnerAmerican
Director
Charles J PedersenAmerican
Organic Chemist
James BondAmerican
ornithologist
Prem NazirIndian
Actor
Gilda RadnerAmerican
Comedian
Sergio LeoneItalian
Film director, Screenwriter, Film producer, Actor,
John MatuszakAmerican
Actor
Robert MapplethorpeAmerican
Photographer, Film director
Irving BerlinAmerican, Russian
Street artist, Composer, Pianist, Songwriter,
Lane FrostAmerican
Bull Riders
Osamu TezukaJapanese
Film director, Film producer, Mangaka, Animator,
Gerhard SchröderGerman
Politician
Billy MartinAmerican
Baseball player, Screenwriter
Christine JorgensenAmerican
Actor
Herbert von KarajanAustrian
Conductor, Music director
Panchen LamaChinese
Tenth Panchen Lama
Steve RubellAmerican
Entrepreneur
Jock MahoneyAmerican
Actor
Michel AflaqSyrian
politician, writer, sociologist, philosopher
Vladimir HorowitzAmerican
American-Russian classical pianist
Tim RichmondAmerican
Racing driver
Kateb YacineAlgerian
writer, playwright, journalist
Edward AbbeyAmerican
Essayist
Ewan MacCollBritish
Singer, Playwright, Record producer, Composer
Cornel WildeHungarian, Slovak, American
Actor
Adolfo ConstanzoAmerican
Serial killer
Robert Penn WarrenAmerican
poet, novelist, writer, literary critic,
Silvana ManganoItalian
Actor, Model
Barry SadlerAmerican
Soldier
Earl NightingaleAmerican
Motivational speaker, Author, Actor, Writer, Radio
Zita of Bourbon-ParmaItalian
Bruce ChatwinBritish
Writer
Thomas BernhardAustrian, Dutch
Writer, Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter, Poet
Gussie BuschAmerican
Business Magnate
Hermann OberthAustrian, Romanian
Physicist, Engineer, Essayist, Screenwriter
Anton DiffringGerman
actor
Billy TiptonAmerican
Pianist, Jazz musician, Saxophonist
János KádárCroatian, Hungarian
political
John J. McCloyAmerican
Diplomat
Dolores IbárruriSpanish
Politician
Michael HarringtonAmerican
Socialist
Leon FestingerAmerican
Psychologist, University teacher
William StephensonCanadian
Boxer
Laurie CunninghamBritish
Football Player