1989 deaths

American actress and comedian (1946–1989)

English novelist (1940–1989)

Beninese politician (1913-1989)

Soviet poet and translator (1907–1989)

Polish alpine and high-altitude climber (1948–1989)

Spanish politician (1908–1989)

Italian screenwriter (1902–1989)

Co-founder of the Black Panther Party (1942-1989)

American photographer (1946–1989)

Palestinian Sunni Islamic scholar and Salafi jihadist (1941–1989)

Hungarian-American actor and film director

Christine Jorgensen was an American actress, singer, and transgender activist. A trans woman, she was the first person to become widely known in the United States for having sex reassignment surgery.

American trumpeter (1911–1989)

Polish politician (1911–1989)

Azerbaijani and Soviet aviator (1909-1989)

Hungarian poet (1913–1989)

American writer, editor, and professor (1931–1989)

Soviet Azerbaijani singer and actor (1915-1989)

American activist (1936–1989)

British actor (1913–1989)

Algerian writer (1929-1989)

French character actor (1916–1989)

Cuban bandleader, pianist, composer and arranger (1917–1989)

English footballer and manager (1927-1989)

British geophysicist and statistician (1891–1989)

President of the Comoros from 1978 to 1989

Polish general (1906-1989)

Russian adventurer, self-declared King of Andorra (1896-1989)

Slovak figure skater (1951–1989)

Czech film director, artist and animator (1910-1989)

actress (1967-1989)

French film director (1909–1989)

Russian-Soviet writer and memoirist (1902-1989)

Japanese singer and actress (1937-1989)

American ornithologist and inspiration for the name of the fictional spy (1900-1989)

Italian physicist (1908–1989)

Hungarian footballer (1928-1989)

French dramatist (1899-1989)

British writer (1902–1989)

Egyptian architect (1900–1989)

Russian mathematician (1908-1989)

President of Peru (1894-1989)

Hungarian hammer thrower (1917–1989)

English footballer (1956–1989)

Danish politician (1920-1989)

Trinidadian historian, journalist and Marxist (1901–1989)

Spanish basketball player (1962–1989)

politician (1925-1989)

American radio, television, film, and voice actor (1913–1989)

German politician (CDU), federal minister (1910-1989)

American composer and critic (1896–1989)

Austrian association football (soccer) player (1911-1989)

American actress (1913–1989)

Catholic cardinal (1906-1989)

American actor (1912–1989)

Brazilian recording artist, songwriter, singer, performing artist (1912–1989)

Turkish writer, jurist, and the first female lawyer in Turkish history

athletics competitor (1933–1989)

Japanese business theorist (1915–1989)

Hungarian footballer (1942-1989)