Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1989

Dorothy Helen Ruth Pirone was the biological daughter of Babe Ruth and his mistress Juanita Jennings. She was adopted by Babe and his first wife Helen Woodford Ruth of Boston Massachusetts. She wrote a memoir of her father, titled My Dad, the Babe.

Sir William Sydney Albert Atkins was the founder of Atkins, one of the United Kingdom's largest engineering consultancies.

Gordon Stanley Reid, was an Australian academic who served as the 26th Governor of Western Australia. Born in Hurstville, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, he was educated at Hurstville Boys High School before enlisting in the Royal Australian Air Force, where he served as a flying officer during the Second World War. After the conclusion of the war, Reid studied at the London School of Economics in England, later winning a scholarship to Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. Having obtained his Doctorate of Philosophy, Reid lectured at the University of Adelaide before serving as the vice-chancellor of the University of Western Australia from 1978 to 1982. Appointed governor in 1984, he served in the position until 1989, resigning a month before his death from cancer.

Samand Aliyevich Siabandov was a Soviet writer, military officer and politician of Kurdish–Yazidi origin who was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union during the Soviet war against Nazi Germany.

Ray McAnally fue un actor irlandés. Recibió tres Premios BAFTA a finales de la década de 1980: dos Premios BAFTA de cine por Mejor actor de reparto ., and a BAFTA Television Award for Best Actor for A Very British Coup in 1989. In 2020, he was ranked at number 34 on The Irish Times's list of Ireland's greatest film actors.

Jeff Richards fue un jugador de las Ligas Menores de Béisbol, perteneciente al club Portland Beavers, que posteriormente desarrolló la carrera de actor, siendo en ocasiones conocido por los nombres Dick Taylor y Richard Taylor.

Kirill Trofimovich Mazurov was a Belarusian Soviet politician.

Edmund Ronald Leach fue un antropólogo social inglés.