1989 deaths

Spanish artist (1904–1989)

, known colloquially by his personal name was the 124th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning from 1926 until his death in 1989. He remains the longest-reigning emperor in Japanese history and one of the longest-reigning monarchs in the world. As emperor during the Shōwa era, Hirohito presided over the rise of Japanese militarism, the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Asia-Pacific theater of World War II, and the nation's postwar economic miracle.

Irish writer (1906–1989)

President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986

Ruhollah Mostafavi Musavi Khomeini was an Iranian political revolutionary and Shia cleric who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the leader of the Iranian Revolution, which overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, ended the Pahlavi era, and transformed the country into an Islamic republic. As supreme leader, he implemented policies that came to be known as Khomeinism.

dictator of Romania from 1965 to 1989

Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921–1989)

American actress (1908–1989)

American physicist and inventor (1910–1989)

English actor and director (1907–1989)

Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973 (1903–1989)

Belgian writer (1903–1986)

Italian filmmaker (1929–1989)

American actress (1911–1989)

Theodore Robert Bundy was an American serial killer who kidnapped, raped and murdered dozens of young women and girls between 1974 and 1978. His modus operandi typically consisted of convincing his target that he was in need of assistance or duping them into believing he was an authority figure. He would then lure his victim to his vehicle, at which point he would bludgeon them unconscious, then restrain them with handcuffs before driving them to a remote location to be sexually assaulted and killed.

Italian physicist and Nobel laureate

Austrian conductor (1908–1989)

Soviet diplomat

British writer (1907–1989)

American composer and lyricist (1888–1989)

Spanish Republican leader of the Spanish Civil War and communist politician (1895-1989)

former General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party

Japanese cartoonist and animator (1928–1989)

Founder of Panasonic (1894-1989)

British economist (1904-1989)

Russian and American pianist (1903–1989)

American geneticist (1903-1989)

American actor (1925–1989)

unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist

English philosopher

President of Cameroon (1924-1989)

Romanian politician (1916–1989)

Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocketry pioneer (1894-1989)

American historian and author (1912–1989)

Greek-American actor, film director, and screenwriter (1929–1989)

English actor, comedian and writer (1941–1989)

American organic chemist

Italian actress (1930–1989)

Japanese association football player (1903–1989)

American boxer (1921–1989)

Serbian and Yugoslav novelist (1935–1989)

Soviet rocket engineer (1908-1989)

American poet, novelist, and literary critic (1905-1989)

Empress of Austria from 1916 to 1918

Chinese politician (1915-1989), former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party

American voice actor and radio personality (1908–1989)

Polish footballer (1947–1989)

African-American dancer, choreographer and activist (1931-1989)

American author and essayist (1927-1989)

American psychologist

American writer (1903–1989)

Italian writer (1921-1989)

Soviet aeronautical engineer, aircraft designer and founder of the Yakovlev Design Bureau (1906–1989)

Syrian philosopher, sociologist and Arab nationalist (1910–1989)

American film director (1920–1989)

Soviet chess player (1913-1989)

Prince of Liechtenstein (1938-1989)

President of Niger from 1960 to 1974 (1916-1989)

Cuban poet, journalist, political activist, and writer (1902–1989)

Dutch filmmaker (1898-1989)