List of Famous people who died in 1989

John Howard Payne was an American film actor who is mainly remembered from film noir crime stories and 20th Century Fox musical films, and for his leading roles in Miracle on 34th Street and the NBC Western television series The Restless Gun.

Kōnosuke Matsushita was a Japanese industrialist who founded Panasonic, the largest Japanese consumer electronics company.

Cornel Wilde was a Hungarian-American actor and film director.

Jack Buetel was an American film and television actor.

John Nelson Sullivan was an American videographer who was ubiquitous on Lower Manhattan's art and club scenes during the 1980s. His videos, which chronicle various events throughout that decade, are now regarded as a form of pre-Internet vlogging. The videos have steadily gained online popularity since 2008, when New York University's 5 Ninth Avenue Project began digitizing and uploading them to YouTube.

Princess Deokhye of Korea was the last princess of the Korean Empire.

Ivan Ustinovich Kharchenko was a Soviet Army Military engineering Colonel and Hero of the Soviet Union. During World War II, he was a platoon commander. Kharchenko was promoted to the rank of Junior lieutenant in 1939, lieutenant in 1943 and senior lieutenant in 1944. He reportedly personally defused more than 50,000 explosives, including bombs, mines, and shells. For his actions in defusing explosives, Kharchenko was named a Hero of the Soviet Union and awarded the Gold Star and Order of Lenin on 2 November 1944. In the citation for the Hero of the Soviet Union award, it was stated that Kharchenko personally defused more than 1500 bombs weighing more than 500 kilograms each and 25,000 other explosive objects. After World War II, Kharchenko continued his military service until retirement in 1964. Until 1956 he was personally engaged in rendering innocuous explosive items left over from World War II.

Georgy Aleksandrovich Tovstonogov was a Russian theatre director.

Rostislav Yanovich Plyatt was a Soviet theatre, film and radio actor. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1961 and awarded the USSR State Prize in 1982.

Dorothy Fuldheim was an American journalist and anchor, spending the majority of her career for The Cleveland Press and WEWS-TV, both based in Cleveland, Ohio.