List of Famous people who died in 1989

Pierre Bruno Hugo Fontana, otherwise known as Hugo del Carril, was an Argentine film actor, film director and tango singer of the classic era.

Leon Festinger was an American social psychologist, perhaps best known for cognitive dissonance and social comparison theory. His theories and research are credited with renouncing the previously dominant behaviorist view of social psychology by demonstrating the inadequacy of stimulus-response conditioning accounts of human behavior. Festinger is also credited with advancing the use of laboratory experimentation in social psychology, although he simultaneously stressed the importance of studying real-life situations, a principle he perhaps most famously practiced when personally infiltrating a doomsday cult. He is also known in social network theory for the proximity effect.

Kateb Yacine (Arabic pronunciation: [kæːtb jæːsiːn] was an Algerian Amazigh writer notable for his novels and plays, both in French and Algerian dialect, and his advocacy of the Berber cause.

Andrés Lapique do Barro, known as Andres do Barro, was a Spanish singer-songwriter in the Galician language. He is the only singer who has reached number 1 in Spain with a song written in Galician.

Yam Kim-fai, also known as Ren Jianhui was a renowned Cantonese opera actress in China and Hong Kong.

Heinrich Krone was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).

Anton Diffring was a German character actor, who had an extensive acting career in the United Kingdom from the 1940s to the 1980s in cinema films and television.

Darío Echandía Olaya was a lawyer and a Colombian political figure, a member of the Colombian Liberal Party. He was born on October 13, 1897 in Chaparral, Tolima, son of Vincente Enchandia and Carlota Olaya de E. The elder of seven brothers, he was educated at Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Senora del Rosario and Colegio de Araujo (Bogota) receiving degrees of Attorney and Doctor in Law, 1917. He married Emilia Arciniegas, August 2, 1936. He died on May 7, 1989 in Ibagué, Tolima.

Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan was the ruler of Abu Dhabi from 1928 to 1966.

Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour was a French lawyer and far-right politician. Elected to the National Assembly in 1936, he initially collaborated with the Vichy regime before leaving for Tunisia in 1941. After a military court declared Tixier-Vignancour ineligible to hold public office for ten years for his early WWII activities, he joined the nationalist group Jeune Nation but left in 1954, opposed to their use of violence. He was re-elected to the Assembly in 1956, but lost his seat during the first legislative elections of the Fifth Republic.