List of Famous people who died at 89

Michael Ross

Isidore Rovinsky
First Name Michael
Last Name Ross
Born on August 4, 1919
Died on May 26, 2009 (aged 89)

Michael "Mickey" Ross was an American screenwriter and television producer. Ross, together with writing partners Don Nicholl and Bernard West, were writers/producers for All in the Family, The Jeffersons, The Dumplings, and Three's Company. Ross and West continued as executive producers of Three's Company after the death of partner Nicholl in 1980, also producing the spin-off shows The Ropers and Three's a Crowd.

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Pietro Amendola

First Name Pietro
Last Name Amendola
Born on October 26, 1918
Died on December 7, 2007 (aged 89)
Born in Italy, Lazio

Pietro Amendola was a communist Italian politician and journalist, who served in the Chamber of Deputies from 1948 until 1968. A war hero, and anti-fascist partisan, his father was Giovanni Amendola, a noted anti-fascist in the 1920s, and his brother, Giorgio, was also a communist politician.

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Sir John Ashton Wentworth Roskill

First Name Sir
Born on January 1, 1902
Died on June 23, 1991 (aged 89)
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Winifred Alison Livingstone-Learmonth

First Name Winifred
Born on October 12, 1889
Died on January 1, 1979 (aged 89)
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François Bloch-Lainé

First Name François
Last Name Bloch-Lainé
Born on March 25, 1912
Died on February 25, 2002 (aged 89)
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Robin Chancellor

First Name Robin
Last Name Chancellor
Born on October 24, 1921
Died on October 27, 2010 (aged 89)
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Gunnar Nielsen

First Name Gunnar
Born on June 23, 1919
Died on January 9, 2009 (aged 89)

Gunnar Nielsen was a Swedish film actor. He appeared in 28 films between 1942 and 2000.

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Paul Fusco

First Name Paul
Last Name Fusco
Born on August 2, 1930
Died on July 15, 2020 (aged 89)

John Paul Fusco was an American photojournalist. Fusco is known in particular for his photographs of Robert F. Kennedy's funeral train, the 1966 Delano Grape strike and the human toll of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Fusco began his career as a photographer for Look magazine, and was a member of Magnum Photos from 1973 until his death in 2020.

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Paul Vaughan

Paul William Vaughan
First Name Paul
Last Name Vaughan
Born on October 24, 1925
Died on November 14, 2014 (aged 89)

Paul William Vaughan was a British journalist, radio presenter throughout the 1970s and 1990s, semi-professional jazz and classical musician and a narrator of many BBC Television science documentaries, among them Horizon.

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Betty Comden

First Name Betty
Last Name Comden
Born on May 3, 1917
Died on November 23, 2006 (aged 89)

Betty Comden was one-half of the musical-comedy duo Comden and Green, who provided lyrics, libretti, and screenplays to some of the most beloved and successful Hollywood musicals and Broadway shows of the mid-20th century. Her writing partnership with Adolph Green, called "the longest running creative partnership in theatre history", lasted for six decades, during which time they collaborated with other leading entertainment figures such as the famed "Freed Unit" at MGM, Jule Styne, and Leonard Bernstein, and wrote the musical comedy film Singin' in the Rain.

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