1989 suicides

Hungarian writer (1900–1989)

American activist (1936–1989)

American actor and director (1920-1989)

Kazakh Olympic wrestler (1956–1989)

athletics competitor (1959–1989)

actress and singer from France

Swiss writer (1942-1989)

Finnish footballer (1945-1989)

Taiwanese publisher and activist (1947–1989)

American basketball player (1964–1989)

American politician (1913-1989)

self-taught pianist

Canadian mass murderer (1964-1989)

Chinese poet

German hacker (1965-1989)

Italian screenwriter (1922–1989)

American actor, singer (1938-1989)

French painter (1909-1989)

American serial killer (1962–1989)

South Korean boxer (1953-1989)

American pornographic actor and film director (1941-1989)

Romanian economist and diplomat (1916–1989)

chess player (1947-1989)

child actor (1945-1989)

Finnish author and journalist (1937-1989)

Czechoslovak cellist and music pedagogue (1930–1989)

American baseball player (1954–1989)

20th-century Algerian poet, playwright, and science-fiction writer

American game show announcer (1918-1989)

Soviet chess player (1921-1989)

South African serial killer

Iranian writer (1949–1989)

Hong Kong actor (1959-1989)

Soviet singer (1964–1989)

Taiwan independence movement activist

Serbian sculptor (1931–1989)

American film actor (1925-1989)

American musician (1914–1989)

Lithuanian artist (1951–1989)