List of Famous people who died in 1989

Suzanne de Troeye (1908-1999) was a French film editor. She worked with directors such as Marcel Pagnol, Marc Allégret and Jean Renoir.

Marion King Hubbert was an American geologist and geophysicist. He worked at the Shell research lab in Houston, Texas. He made several important contributions to geology, geophysics, and petroleum geology, most notably the Hubbert curve and Hubbert peak theory, with important political ramifications. He was often referred to as "M. King Hubbert" or "King Hubbert".

Thorkild Hansen was a Danish novelist most noted for his historical fiction. He is commonly associated with his trilogy about the Danish slave trade including Slavernes øer (1970) for which he received the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1971.

Sir Ronald Syme, was a New Zealand-born historian and classicist. Long associated with Oxford University, he is widely regarded as the 20th century's greatest historian of ancient Rome. His great work was The Roman Revolution (1939), a masterly and controversial analysis of Roman political life in the period following the assassination of Julius Caesar.

Nikolai Nikolaevich Govorun (1930–1989) was a Soviet mathematician known best for his contributions to computational mathematics.

Guy Laroche was a French fashion designer and founder of the eponymous company.

Josef Bauer was a German politician of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria.

Sir Harold Jeffreys, FRS was a British mathematician, statistician, geophysicist, and astronomer. His book, Theory of Probability, which was first published in 1939, played an important role in the revival of the objective Bayesian view of probability.