List of Famous people who died at 89

Sir Anthony Alfred Caro was an English abstract sculptor whose work is characterised by assemblages of metal using 'found' industrial objects. His style was of the modernist school, having worked with Henry Moore early in his career. He was lauded as the greatest British sculptor of his generation. His work Veduggio Glimpse, on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is currently on display as part of Landmarks, the public art program of The University of Texas at Austin.

Karola Bloch was a Polish-German architect, socialist, and feminist. She was the third wife of the German philosopher Ernst Bloch.

Sir Kenneth James Dover, was a distinguished British Classical scholar and academic. He was President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford from 1976 to 1986. In addition, he was President of the British Academy from 1978 to 1981, and Chancellor of the University of St Andrews from 1981 to 2005. He was the author of Greek Homosexuality (1978), a key text on the subject.

Maxime Rodinson was a French Marxist historian, sociologist and orientalist. He was the son of a Russian-Polish clothing trader and his wife, who both died in the Auschwitz concentration camp. After studying oriental languages, he became a professor of Ethiopian (Ge'ez) at EPHE. He was the author of a body of work, including the book Muhammad, a biography of the prophet of Islam.

Albert Bousser was a Luxembourgish politician, railway inspector, and trade unionist.

Edward Henryk Materski was a Polish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served from 1992 to 1999.

Charles-Omer Valois was a Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.