Lista de Personas Famosas que murieron en 1989

Walter M. Scott was a set decorator who worked on films such as The Sound of Music and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Gordon McCallum was an American-born English sound engineer. He won an Academy Award for Best Sound and was nominated for three more in the same category. He worked on over 300 films between 1944 and 1985.

Gottfried Maria Hugo Köthe was an Austrian mathematician working in abstract algebra and functional analysis.

Charles Garrett Ponsonby Moore, 11th Earl of Drogheda KG, KBE, styled Viscount Moore until 1957, was a British peer.

Stanley David Griggs was a United States Navy officer and a NASA astronaut. He is credited with conducting the first unscheduled extra-vehicular activity of the space program during Space Shuttle mission STS-51-D. Griggs was killed when the vintage World War II-era training aircraft he was piloting – a North American AT-6D – crashed near Earle, Arkansas.

George Bernard Flahiff, CC, CSB was a Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Winnipeg from 1961 to 1982, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1969.

Tadahiro Aizawa was a nattō merchant who was the first to discover Japanese Paleolithic artifacts. Prior to Aizawa, the scholarly consensus had been that Japan was uninhabitable before the Jōmon period. Aizawa discovered stone axes at Iwajuku in September 1946. Aizawa embarrassed the professional archaeologists; he was only an amateur who passionately believed in pre-Jomon habitation.

George Coulouris fue un importante actor inglés de cine y teatro. Nació en Salford, Lancashire (Inglaterra), fue criado ahí y en Urmston, Mánchester, y educado en la Manchester Grammar School. Su padre era un inmigrante griego y su madre era inglesa. Acudió a la Central School of Speech and Drama de Londres, en compañía de otros estudiantes tales como Laurence Olivier y Peggy Ashcroft. Su debut en la escena fue en 1926 con Enrique V en el teatro Old Vic, y en 1929 tuvo su primera aparición en el teatro de Broadway, sobre cuyos escenarios destacaría, entre otras piezas, en The Late Christopher Bean. Su debut cinematográfico en Hollywood tuvo lugar en 1933.