List of Famous people who died in 1989
Erich Hoffmann
Alastair Douglas Mackenzie
Laurel Gay Sawbridge
Luis Calderón Vega
Luis Calderón Vega (1911–1989) was a Mexican politician and writer. Along with other leading opposition politicians, he was one of the founders of the National Action Party (PAN) in 1939.
Eduard Wallnöfer
Isamitsu Kitakōji
George Beadle
George Wells Beadle was an American geneticist. In 1958 he shared one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edward Tatum for their discovery of the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within cells. He also served as the 7th President of the University of Chicago.
Serge Stauffer
Serge Stauffer was a Swiss artist and art educator. He was one of the co-founders of the F+F Schule für experimentelle Gestaltung in Zurich and known for his German translations of the works of Marcel Duchamp. Stauffer can be considered to have pioneered art as research.
Elizabeth Metcalf Coston
Aleksandr Safronov
Aleksandr Safronov was a Soviet speed skater. He competed in the men's 1000 metres events at the 1976 Winter Olympics.