The following is a list of notabledeaths in February 1989.
Entries for each day are listedalphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
John Cassavetes, 59, Greek-American actor (Johnny Staccato,The Dirty Dozen), film director, and screenwriter, he was a pioneer of modern Americanindependent cinema as both a writer and a director, often self-financing, producing, and distributing his own films,[17], cirrhosis of the liver.[18]
