Deaths in 1989
See also Births in 1989
- Salvador Dali died 23 January 1989
- John Cassavetes died 3 February 1989
- Robert Mapplethorpe died 9 March 1989
- Maurice Evans died 12 March 1989
- Edward Abbey died 14 March 1989
- Abbie Hoffman died 12 April 1989
- Daphne Du Maurier died 19 April 1989
- Lucille Ball died 26 April 1989
- Sergio Leone died 30 April 1989
- Gilda Radner died 20 May 1989
- Ayatollah Khomeini died 3 June 1989
- Mel Blanc died 10 July 1989
- Laurence Olivier died 11 July 1989
- Huey P. Newton died 22 August 1989
- Graham Chapman died 4 October 1989
- Bette Davis died 6 October 1989
- Alvin Ailey died 1 December 1989
- John Payne died 6 December 1989
- Lee Van Cleef died 16 December 1989
- Samuel Beckett died 22 December 1989
- Nicolae Ceausescu died 25 December 1989
