Famous People Who Died in 1989

• Abbey, Edward

  Author of The Monkey Wrench Gang

• Ball, Lucille

  The red-headed star of TV's I Love Lucy

• Beckett, Samuel

  Irish-French author of Waiting for Godot

• Berlin, Irving

  The composer of "White Christmas"

• Blanc, Mel

  The voice of Bugs Bunny and the Looney Tunes cartoons

• Bundy, Ted

  The smooth-talking serial killer who blamed porn

• Dali, Salvador

  The surrealist artist with the curly mustache

• Davis, Bette

  The bug-eyed movie star from All About Eve

• Hirohito

  Emperor of Japan, 1926-1989

• Hoffman, Abbie

  The yippie who wrote Steal This Book

• Leone, Sergio

  Italian director of movie westerns

• Marcos, Ferdinand

  President of The Philippines, 1965-1986

• Newton, Huey

  Co-founder of the Black Panthers

• Olivier, Sir Laurence

  The British acting legend who made the 1944 film Henry V

• Radner, Gilda

  The early Saturday Night Live star who played Roseanne Roseannadanna

• Secretariat

  The 1973 winner of horse racing's Triple Crown

• Simenon, Georges

  Prolific author of the Detective Maigret novels

• Stephenson, William

  The Canadian spymaster behind A Man Called Intrepid

• Tezuka, Osamu

  The godfather of Japanese animation

• Tuchman, Barbara

  Author of The Guns of August

• Van Cleef, Lee

  The "bad" guy in the western The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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