List of Famous people who died at 89
Michel Celaya
Michel Celaya was a French rugby union player who played at back-row for the France national rugby union team and Biarritz Olympique.
Felix Browder
Felix Earl Browder was an American mathematician known for his work in nonlinear functional analysis. He received the National Medal of Science in 1999 and was President of the American Mathematical Society until 2000. His two younger brothers also became notable mathematicians, William Browder and Andrew Browder.
Dieter Timpe
Dieter Timpe was a German historian best known for his theories on Arminius and the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
Philip Morrison
Philip Morrison was a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is known for his work on the Manhattan Project during World War II, and for his later work in quantum physics, nuclear physics and high energy astrophysics.
Gaylord Nelson
Gaylord Anton Nelson was an American politician and environmentalist from Wisconsin who served as a United States Senator and governor. A Democrat, he was the founder of Earth Day, which launched a new wave of environmental activism.
Mark Lubotsky
Mark Davidovich Lubotsky, Russian: Марк Давыдович Лубоцкий was a Russian violinist, music teacher, writer, and memoirist.
Marie-Louise von Motesiczky
Marie-Louise von Motesiczky was an Austrian painter.
Juan Antonio Samaranch
Juan Antonio Samaranch y Torelló, 1st Marquess of Samaranch was a Spanish sports administrator under the Franco regime (1973–1977) who served as the seventh President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from 1980 to 2001. Samaranch served the second-longest term as the head of the IOC, the longest being that of Pierre de Coubertin.
Armando Cossutta
Armando Cossutta was an Italian communist politician.
Wanda Wiłkomirska
Wanda Wiłkomirska was a Polish violinist and academic teacher. She was known for both the classical repertoire and for her interpretation of 20th-century music, having received two Polish State Awards for promoting Polish music to the world as well as other awards for her contribution to music. She gave world premiere performances of numerous contemporary works, including music by Tadeusz Baird and Krzysztof Penderecki. Wiłkomirska performed on a violin crafted by Pietro Guarneri in 1734 in Venice. She taught at the music academies of Mannheim and Sydney.