List of Famous people who died at 89
Jim Lowe
James Ellsworth Lowe was an American singer-songwriter, best known for his 1956 number-one hit song, "The Green Door". He also served as a disc jockey and radio host and personality, and was considered an expert on the popular music of the 1940s and 1950s.
Wolfgang Schreyer
Wolfgang Schreyer was a German writer of fiction, historic adventures mixed with documentary, science fiction for TV shows and movies and is best known as the author of over 20 adventure stories.
Henri Cogan
Henri Cogan was a French actor and stuntman.
Murphy Anderson
Murphy C. Anderson, Jr. was an American comics artist, known as one of the premier inkers of his era, who worked for companies such as DC Comics for over fifty years, starting in the Golden Age of Comic Books in the 1940s. He worked on such characters as Hawkman, Batgirl, Zatanna, the Spectre, and Superman, as well as on the Buck Rogers daily syndicated newspaper comic strip. Anderson also contributed for many years to PS, the preventive maintenance comics magazine of the U.S. Army.
Jan Křen
Jan Křen was a Czech historian, academic, dissident during Czechoslovakia's communist era, and a Charter 77 signatory. He specialized in the study of Czech-German relations.
Ken Farnum
Kenneth Aubrey Farnum was a Jamaican cyclist. He competed in the men's sprint and 1,000 metres time trial events at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He died on 4 April 2020 in New York City due to complications from COVID-19.
Hermann Glaser
Hermann Glaser was a politically engaged cultural historian and commentator.
Franciszek Macharski
Franciszek Macharski was a Polish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He was appointed Archbishop of Kraków from 1978, named by Pope John Paul II to succeed him in that role. Macharski was elevated to the cardinalate in 1979, and resigned as archbishop in 2005.
Chieko Higashiyama
Chieko Higashiyama was a Japanese stage and film actress. She appeared in more than 60 films from 1936 to 1967.
Guitar Crusher
Sidney Selby, known as "Guitar Crusher" and formerly as "Bone Crusher", was an American blues singer and guitarist, for many years based in Berlin, Germany. Primarily a singer, billed as "The Big Voice from New York", he also played guitar and blues harmonica.