List of Famous people who died at 89
Kazuko Watanabe
Kazuko Watanabe 渡辺和子 was a Japanese religious sister, educationist, and writer. Her Christian name was Sister Saint John. She was a member of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur and served as president of their Notre Dame Seishin University, Okayama Prefecture, from 1963 to 1990.
Chuck Low
Charles Lewis Low was an American actor.
Masaru Okunishi
Masaru Okunishi was a convicted murderer who was on death row in Japan for 46 years.
Charles Kettles
Charles Seymour Kettles was a United States Army lieutenant colonel and a Medal of Honor recipient.
Ron Casey
Ronald Arthur Casey was an Australian television presenter, sports journalist and talk-back radio host based in Sydney, New South Wales.
Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke
Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke was a German writer who focused on memoirs of her time as the wife of the expressionist painter August Macke, who had portrayed her more than 200 times. He died in World War I. Later, she lived in Berlin with her second husband, Lothar Erdmann, who died in a concentration camp during World War II. She saved Macke's paintings and copies of his letters by moving them from her house in Berlin before it was bombed in 1943.
Val Jellay
Valerie Muriel Jellay was an Australian vaudevillian, actress, soubrette, singer, dancer and author. At the time of her death, she was the widow of fellow Australian vaudevillian, actor and comedian Maurie Fields, together they were in general considered to be a duo act in the entertainment industry. She was the mother of comedian and actor Marty Fields. Her early career had been in vaudeville and on stage, before becoming a staple on the small screen in 1957.
Antonio Carrizo
Antonio Carrozzi Abascal, best known as Antonio Carrizo, was an Argentine radio and television presenter.
Kamal el-Shennawi
Mohammed Kamal el-Shennawi was an Egyptian film and television actor, director and producer. He is the maternal uncle of Egyptian American actor Haythem Noor and Amr Youssri.
Pavel Sudoplatov
Lieutenant General Pavel Anatolyevich Sudoplatov was a member of the intelligence services of the Soviet Union who rose to the rank of lieutenant general. He became involved in several famous episodes, including the assassination of Leon Trotsky in 1940, the Soviet espionage program which obtained information about the atomic bomb from the Manhattan Project, and Operation Scherhorn, a Soviet deception operation against the Germans in 1944. His autobiography, Special Tasks, published in 1994, made him well known outside the USSR, and provided a detailed look at Soviet intelligence and Soviet internal politics during his years at the top.