List of Famous people who died in 1989

Timothy Meyers was an American actor famous for originating the role of Kenickie in Grease and was a 1972 nominee for Tony Award Best Featured Actor in a Musical. His first stage role was in 1970 as Crookfinger Jake in Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera. His other stage roles include the 1980s musical Sidewalkin (Oscar), HotGrog (Blackbeard), The Foursome (Tim), No Place to be Somebody (Shanty), Rock Island (Wally), The Sugar Bowl (Pinky), Romeo and Jeanette (Lucien), Jack the Ripper (Lusk), Wait Until Dark, Cabaret, The Fantasticks (Henry), Terra Nova (Bowers), The Dresser, True West, Curse of the Starving Class (Weston), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Scanlon), Lady of the Diamond (Sportscaster), Write Me a Murder, She Stoops to Conquer (Stingo), Ah, Wilderness!, Loot (Meadows), Tartuffe (Damis), The Caretaker (Mick), Steambath (Morty), Comedians, King Lear (Oswald), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Puck), Measure for Measure (Pompey), and The Greeks (Odysseus).

Jean-Paul Moulinot was a French actor, sociétaire of the Comédie-Française.

Jean Bellay was a French racing cyclist. He rode in the 1954 Tour de France.

Joseph LaShelle ASC was an American film cinematographer.

Alex Seidel was a German weapons manufacturer and the co-founder of Heckler & Koch along with Theodor Koch and Edmund Heckler. Together the three men built the Heckler and Koch company out of the old name of Heckler & Co. on December 28, 1949.