List of Famous people who died in 1989

Maurizio Merli was an Italian film actor and a star of many Italian police thrillers.

Adem Čejvan was a Bosnian actor.

Jean-Hilaire Aubame was a Gabonese politician active during both the colonial and independence periods. The French journalist Pierre Péan said that Aubame's training "as a practicing Catholic and a customs official helped to make him an integrated man, one of whom political power was not an end in itself."

William Kerwin was an American actor and filmmaker. He was most well known for his character roles in the films of Herschell Gordon Lewis.

Alfred Balthoff was a German stage, film and television actor. He also worked as a voice actor, dubbing foreign releases for the German-speaking market. Of Jewish background, he spent the final years of the Nazi era in hiding. In the immediate post-war years he made several films in the Eastern Zone for DEFA, but later established himself in West Germany.

Chrissie White was a British film actress of the silent era. She appeared in over 180 films between 1908 and 1933. White was married to actor and film director Henry Edwards, and in the 1920s the two were regarded as one of Britain's most famous and newsworthy celebrity couples. The couple had two children, a son who died when he was a baby, and a daughter. She starred in the 1920 film The Amazing Quest of Mr. Ernest Bliss, which as of August 2010 is missing from the BFI National Archive, and is listed as one of the British Film Institute's "75 Most Wanted" lost films.

Berl Repetur was a Zionist activist, Israeli politician and one of the signatories of the Israeli declaration of independence.

Karel Finek was a Czech footballer and football manager.

Warren Low was a noted American film editor who worked on Now, Voyager, Out of the Fog, and others. He was an originator for what became the American Cinema Editors and received awards from them.