List of Famous people who died at 89

Henri Guisol was a French film actor. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1931 to 1980. He enjoyed a career in French who done its and film noir.

Camille Bert (1880–1970) was a French actor.

Ioannis Despotopoulos, also known as Jan Despo, was a Greek architect born in Smyrna, Aidin Vilayet, Ottoman Empire.

Carl Georg Heise was a German art historian. From 1945 to 1955 he was director of the Kunsthalle Hamburg.

Peter Keetman was a German photographer.

Lionel Greenstreet (1889–1979) was the first officer of the Endurance and a member of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1917, for which he was awarded the Polar Medal. When he died on 13 January 1979, he was the last survivor of the Weddell Sea party within the expedition.

Alexander Sutherland Neill was a Scottish educator and author known for his school, Summerhill, and its philosophy of freedom from adult coercion and community self-governance. Raised in Scotland, Neill taught at several schools before attending the University of Edinburgh in 1908–1912. He took two jobs in journalism before World War I, and taught at Gretna Green Village School in the first year of the war, writing his first book, A Dominie's Log (1915), as a diary of his life there as head teacher. He joined a Dresden school in 1921 and founded Summerhill on returning to England in 1924. Summerhill gained renown in the 1930s and then in the 1960s–1970s, due to progressive and counter-culture interest. Neill wrote 20 books. His top seller was the 1960 Summerhill, read widely in the free school movement from the 1960s.

Pavel Alekseyevich Kurochkin was a Soviet army commander.