List of Famous people who died at 89

Jean Davy was a French film, stage voice actor.

Eleanor Gladys Copenhaver (1896-1985) was a social worker and activist who spent over 40 years as an organizer and community service worker for the YWCA. She began as a community organizer and worked her way up to the labor division, finally becoming head of the Industrial Division from 1937 to 1947. At the end of World War II, when women were phased out of the labor market, she was briefly dismissed, but then hired back to organize support for the communities springing up around the defense industry.

Robert Channing Seamans Jr. was an MIT professor who served as NASA Deputy Administrator and 9th United States Secretary of the Air Force.

Sheila Darcy, also known as "Rebecca Wassem", was an American film actress of the 1930s and the 1940s.

Haim Gvati was a Zionist activist and Israeli politician. He held several ministerial portfolios, and served as Minister of Agriculture between 1964 and 1974.

Từ Cung Hoàng thái hậu (1890-1980), was an Empress Dowager of Vietnam 1926-1945. She was the mother of emperor Bảo Đại of the Nguyễn dynasty. She was the concubine of emperor Khải Định. She had never been empress, but was given the title of empress dowager in her capacity as the mother of the emperor.

Donald Clayton Spencer was an American mathematician, known for work on deformation theory of structures arising in differential geometry, and on several complex variables from the point of view of partial differential equations. He was born in Boulder, Colorado, and educated at the University of Colorado and MIT.