List of Famous people who died at 89

Virgilio Salimbeni was an Italian racing cyclist. He won the Coppa Bernocchi in 1948 and Giro dell'Emilia in 1949, and rode the Tour de France in 1948, 1950 and 1951 and Giro d'Italia in 1948.

Harlan Anderson was an American engineer and entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), which later became the second largest computer company in the world. Other notable entities that Anderson has been associated with include Lincoln Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a member of the technical staff. He served as Director of Technology for Time, Inc., where he spearheaded their evaluation of the future of the printed word during the explosion of television, long before the Internet existed.

Gwendoline Alexandra Nelson was an English actress who was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Court Theatre Company.

John Charles Reiss was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Trenton from 1980 to 1997.

Biff Elliot was an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as popular detective Mike Hammer in the 1953 version of I, the Jury, and for his guest appearance as Schmitter in the Star Trek episode "The Devil in the Dark".

Israel López Valdés, better known as Cachao, was a Cuban double bassist and composer. Cachao is widely known as the co-creator of the mambo and a master of the descarga. Throughout his career he also performed and recorded in a variety of music styles ranging from classical music to salsa. An exile in the United States since the 1960s, he only achieved international fame following a career revival in the 1990s.