Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1989

Charles Clarence Beck fue un historietista estadounidense.

Lionel Newman fue un compositor de canciones estadounidense; era hermano del también compositor Alfred Newman y tío de Thomas Newman y Randy Newman.

Milton Tasker "Bill" Putnam was an American audio engineer, songwriter, producer, studio designer and businessman, who has been described as "the father of modern recording". He was the inventor of the modern recording console and is recognised as a key figure in the development of the postwar commercial recording industry.

Selwyn Jepson was an English mystery and detective author and screenwriter. He was the son of the fiction writer Edgar Jepson (1863–1938) and Frieda Holmes, daughter of the musician Henry Holmes. His sister Margaret (1907–2003) was also a novelist and the mother of the author Fay Weldon.

Robert Pirosh was an American motion picture and television screenwriter and director.

Hermann Burger, was a Swiss poet, novelist and essayist. In his creative works Burger often focused on society's lonely outsiders and, increasingly, the inevitability of death. His virtuosity in applying literary styles and use of thorough research are significant features of many of his publications.

Frederic Prokosch was an American writer, known for his novels, poetry, memoirs and criticism. He was also a distinguished translator.

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Walter Henry Bromley-Davenport TD DL was a British Conservative Party politician.

Jean Painlevé (1902-1989). Fue un director cinematográfico y biólogo francés que renovó el filme científico. Continuó con la tradición de Marey y Muybridge en relación con el movimiento.

Richard Rado FRS was a German-born British mathematician whose research concerned combinatorics and graph theory. He was Jewish and left Germany to escape Nazi persecution. He earned two Ph.D.s: in 1933 from the University of Berlin, and in 1935 from the University of Cambridge. He was interviewed in Berlin by Lord Cherwell for a scholarship given by the chemist Sir Robert Mond which provided financial support to study at Cambridge. After he was awarded the scholarship, Rado and his wife left for the UK in 1933. He was appointed Professor of Mathematics at the University of Reading in 1954 and remained there until he retired in 1971.