List of Famous people who died at 89
Ina'am Al-Mufti
Ina'am Qaddoura Al-Mufti was the first Jordanian woman to hold a governmental position.
Chang Kia-ngau
Chang Kia-ngau, courtesy name Gōngquán (公权), was a Chinese banker, politician, and scholar. He was an influential figure in the history of modern Chinese central bank.
Doğan Babacan
Doğan Babacan was a Turkish football referee. He was the first Turkish referee to supervise a match in FIFA World Cup history.
Burhanettin Bigalı
Burhanettin Bigalı was a Turkish general; he retired in 1990. He was head of the National Intelligence Organization and later General Commander of the Gendarmerie of Turkey.
Ömer Nasuhi Bilmen
Ömer Nasuhi Bilmen (1883–1971) was a Muslim scholar of fiqh and tafsir, and the fifth president of the Directorate of Religious Affairs of the Republic of Turkey. He is known for his expansive work on a concise manual on Islamic faith, worship and ethics called The Big Book of Islamic Catechism.
Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd
Alexander Robertus Todd, Baron Todd was a Scottish biochemist whose research on the structure and synthesis of nucleotides, nucleosides, and nucleotide coenzymes gained him the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
Sutan Mohammad Amin Nasution
Mr. Sutan Mohammad Amin Nasution, also known by his birth name Krueng Raba Nasution was an Acehnese–Mandailing lawyer and politician.
Ahmed Kuftaro
Ahmed Kuftaro or Ahmad Kaftaru was the Grand Mufti of Syria, the highest officially appointed Sunni Muslim representative of the Fatwa-Administration in the Syrian Ministry of Auqaf in Syria. Kaftaro was a Sunni Muslim of the Naqshbandi Sufi order.
Yusuf Hikmet Bayur
Hikmet Bayur was a Turkish politician. He was born in Istanbul. He was the grandson of Kâmil Pasha, one of the Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire.
Zhao Fusan
Zhao Fusan (赵复三) (1926–2015) was a Chinese scholar of Christianity. From the 1950s to the 1980s, he was involved in the Three-Self Patriotic Movement (TSPM), but lived in exile after 1989. Together with Zhao Puchu and Zhao Zichen, they are known as "Three Zhaos" in the academic field of religious studies in Mainland China. He died in Connecticut, U.S. on 15 July 2015.