List of Famous people who died in 1989

John Emerich Henry Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 3rd Baron Acton, was a British peer and soldier.

Amador Bendayán [ben-dah-IAN] was a Venezuelan actor and entertainer.

Honourable Justice Joseph Adetunji Adefarasin (1920-1989), was a Nigerian Lawyer and High Court judge. He was one of the foremost students of Igbobi College, Yaba, Lagos from 1932 to 1939 and studied law at University of London from 1946 to 1949.Joseph Adefarasin was the Second Chief of Judge of Lagos from 1 November 1974 to 24 November 1985.

Albert Paul Shenar was an American actor and theater director, known for portraying the Bolivian drug lord Alejandro Sosa, in Scarface (1983).

Amanda Blake was an American actress best known for the role of the red-haired saloon proprietress "Miss Kitty Russell" on the western television series Gunsmoke. Along with her third husband, Frank Gilbert, she ran one of the first successful programs for breeding cheetahs in captivity.

Hermine "Erminia" Speier was a German archaeologist. One of the few female archaeologists of her time, she was the first female employee of the Vatican Museums and one of the first professional women to be employed by the Vatican. She was a pioneering contributor to the collections of archaeological photographs and is often credited as being the first archaeological photo-archivist.

Jacques Castelot was a French film actor. He appeared in 86 films between 1938 and 1982. His brother was the writer André Castelot and their father was the Symbolist painter Maurice Chabas. From 1940 to 1945 he was married to actress and theater director Héléna Bossis.

Ferdinand Hugo aus der Fünten, widely known as Fünten, was an SS-Hauptsturmführer and head of the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Amsterdam during the Second World War. He was responsible for the deportation of Jews from the Netherlands to the German concentration camps and was convicted as a war criminal.

Lynn Bari was a film actress who specialized in playing sultry, statuesque man-killers in roughly 150 movies for 20th Century Fox from the early 1930s through the 1940s.

André Cayatte was a French filmmaker and lawyer, who became known for his films centering on themes of crime, justice, and moral responsibility.