List of Famous people who died in 1989

Dorothy Helen Ruth Pirone was the biological daughter of Babe Ruth and his mistress Juanita Jennings. She was adopted by Babe and his first wife Helen Woodford Ruth of Boston Massachusetts. She wrote a memoir of her father, titled My Dad, the Babe.

Sir William Sydney Albert Atkins was the founder of Atkins, one of the United Kingdom's largest engineering consultancies.

Gordon Stanley Reid, was an Australian academic who served as the 26th Governor of Western Australia. Born in Hurstville, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, he was educated at Hurstville Boys High School before enlisting in the Royal Australian Air Force, where he served as a flying officer during the Second World War. After the conclusion of the war, Reid studied at the London School of Economics in England, later winning a scholarship to Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. Having obtained his Doctorate of Philosophy, Reid lectured at the University of Adelaide before serving as the vice-chancellor of the University of Western Australia from 1978 to 1982. Appointed governor in 1984, he served in the position until 1989, resigning a month before his death from cancer.

Samand Aliyevich Siabandov was a Soviet writer, military officer and politician of Kurdish–Yazidi origin who was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union during the Soviet war against Nazi Germany.

Ray McAnally was an Irish actor. He was the winner of four BAFTA awards in the late 1980s: twice for Best Supporting Actor, and twice for Best Actor in the television category. In 2020, he was listed at number 34 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.

Jeff Richards was an American minor league baseball player with the Portland Beavers, who later became an actor. He was sometimes credited as Dick Taylor and Richard Taylor.

Kirill Trofimovich Mazurov was a Belarusian Soviet politician.

Sir Edmund Ronald Leach was a British social anthropologist.