List of Famous people who died in 1989

Ota Hofman, alias Ota Dvorský was Czechoslovak writer of children's literature and young adult literature and a screenwriter.

Kumeko Urabe was a Japanese movie actress, and one of the first in the country. Born Kimura Kume, she also adopted the stage names Kumeko Ichijo, Toyama Midori, Chidori Shizuura and Chidori Toyama. She worked on stage and in film and television. Urabe was born in a rural part of the Shizuoka Prefecture. She lived in several homes while growing up, as she relocated with her father, a Buddhist priest, among the temples to which he was assigned. Urabe completed her education in Numazu, and left school in 1919 to join a theatre company, touring under various stage names as an actor and dancer.

Valentine "Valya" Bargmann was a German-American mathematician and theoretical physicist.

Phineas Newborn Jr. was an American jazz pianist, whose principal influences were Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, and Bud Powell.

Hilmar Tormod Ingolf Baunsgaard was a Danish politician. He was a member of the Danish Social Liberal Party and the party's leader from 1968 to 1975. He was the Prime Minister of Denmark from 15 February 1968 until 9 October 1971. He was preceded and succeeded by the Social Democratic leader of that time, Jens Otto Krag. Between 1948 and 1951 Baunsgaard had been chairman of The Social Liberal Youth of Denmark. In 1957 he became a Member of Parliament.

Walther Neye was a German lawyer. Between 1952 and 1957 he was the rector of Berlin's Humboldt University.