List of Famous people who died in 1989

Angelo Bartlett Giamatti was an American professor of English Renaissance literature, the president of Yale University, and the seventh Commissioner of Major League Baseball.

Mary Therese McCarthy was an American novelist, critic and political activist, best known for her novel The Group, her marriage to critic Edmund Wilson, and her storied feud with playwright Lillian Hellman.

Kurt Werner Lischka was an SS official, Gestapo chief and commandant of the Security police (SiPo) and Security Service (SD) in Paris during the German occupation of France in World War II.

Henry John Brewis was a Scottish Unionist Party politician and barrister.

Prof Sergei Lvovich Sobolev HFRSE was a Soviet mathematician working in mathematical analysis and partial differential equations.

William Larimer "Larry" Mellon Jr. (1910–1989) was an American philanthropist and physician.