1989

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1989 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1989 MCMLXXXIX
Ab urbe condita	2742
Armenian calendar	1438 ԹՎ ՌՆԼԸ
Assyrian calendar	6739
Baháʼí calendar	145–146
Balinese saka calendar	1910–1911
Bengali calendar	1396
Berber calendar	2939
British Regnal year	37 Eliz. 2 – 38 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2533
Burmese calendar	1351
Byzantine calendar	7497–7498
Chinese calendar	戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 4686 or 4479     — to — 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 4687 or 4480
Coptic calendar	1705–1706
Discordian calendar	3155
Ethiopian calendar	1981–1982
Hebrew calendar	5749–5750
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2045–2046
- Shaka Samvat	1910–1911
- Kali Yuga	5089–5090
Holocene calendar	11989
Igbo calendar	989–990
Iranian calendar	1367–1368
Islamic calendar	1409–1410
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 64 / Heisei 1 (平成元年)
Javanese calendar	1921–1922
Juche calendar	78
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4322
Minguo calendar	ROC 78 民國78年
Nanakshahi calendar	521
Thai solar calendar	2532
Tibetan calendar	阳土龙年 (male Earth-Dragon) 2115 or 1734 or 962     — to — 阴土蛇年 (female Earth-Snake) 2116 or 1735 or 963
Unix time	599616000 – 631151999

1989 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1989 MCMLXXXIX
Ab urbe condita	2742
Armenian calendar	1438 ԹՎ ՌՆԼԸ
Assyrian calendar	6739
Baháʼí calendar	145–146
Balinese saka calendar	1910–1911
Bengali calendar	1396
Berber calendar	2939
British Regnal year	37 Eliz. 2 – 38 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2533
Burmese calendar	1351
Byzantine calendar	7497–7498
Chinese calendar	戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 4686 or 4479     — to — 己巳年 (Earth Snake) 4687 or 4480
Coptic calendar	1705–1706
Discordian calendar	3155
Ethiopian calendar	1981–1982
Hebrew calendar	5749–5750
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2045–2046
- Shaka Samvat	1910–1911
- Kali Yuga	5089–5090
Holocene calendar	11989
Igbo calendar	989–990
Iranian calendar	1367–1368
Islamic calendar	1409–1410
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 64 / Heisei 1 (平成元年)
Javanese calendar	1921–1922
Juche calendar	78
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4322
Minguo calendar	ROC 78 民國78年
Nanakshahi calendar	521
Thai solar calendar	2532
Tibetan calendar	阳土龙年 (male Earth-Dragon) 2115 or 1734 or 962     — to — 阴土蛇年 (female Earth-Snake) 2116 or 1735 or 963
Unix time	599616000 – 631151999
* Era was changed on January 8.

1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

Deaths

January

• January 3 - Robert Banks, American chemist (b. 1921)
• January 7 - Frank Adams, British mathematician (b. 1930)
• January 7 - Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (b. 1901)
• January 10 - Hai Teng, abbott of Shaolin Temple (b. 1902?)
• January 11 - August Koern, Estonian statesman and diplomat (b. 1900)
• January 21 - Billy Tipton, American musician (b. 1914)
• January 23 - Salvador Dalí, Spanish artist (b. 1904)
• January 24 - Ted Bundy, American serial killer (executed) (b. 1946)

February

• February 1 - Elaine de Kooning, American artist (b. 1919)
• February 3 - John Cassavetes, American actor and author (b. 1929)
• February 6 - Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian (b. 1912)
• February 9 - Osamu Tezuka, Japanese Manga artist, e.g. Astroboy (b. 1928)
• February 11 - George O'Hanlon, American actor and director (b. 1912)
• February 24 - Sparky Adams, American baseball player (b. 1894)
• February 26 - Roy Eldridge, American musician (b. 1911)
• February 27 - Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (b. 1897)
• February 27 - Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903)

March

• March 6 - Harry Andrews, British actor (b. 1911)
• March 8 - Carl Stuart Hamblen, American musician (b. 1908)
• March 9 - Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (b. 1946)
• March 14 - Edward Abbey, American author and environmentalist (b. 1927)
• March 14 - Stephen D. Bechtel, Sr., American businessman (b. 1900)
• March 19 - Alan Civil, English French horn player (b. 1929)
• March 27 - Malcolm Cowley, American author (b. 1898)
• March 27 - Jack Starrett, American actor and director (b. 1936)

April

• April 12 - Gerald Flood, British actor (b. 1927)
• April 15 - Hu Yaobang, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b. 1915)
• April 16 - Jocko Conlan, baseball player and umpire (b. 1899)
• April 21 - Princess Dukhye of Korea (b. 1912)
• April 22 - Emilio G. Segrè, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• April 26 - Lucille Ball, American entertainer (b. 1911)
• April 30 - Sergio Leone, Italian film director (b. 1929)
• April 30 - Yi, Bang-ja, Crown Princess of Korea (b. 1901)

May

• May 1 - Sally Kirkland, fashion editor at LIFE (b. 1912)
• May 9 - Keith Whitley, American singer (b. 1955)
• May 14 - E.P. Taylor, Canadian business tycoon (b. 1901)
• May 19 - C.L.R. James, Trinidadian writer and journalist (b. 1901)
• May 20 - John Hicks, English economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• May 20 - Gilda Radner, American comedian and actress (b. 1946)
• May 29 - John Cipollina, American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (b. 1943)

June

• June 3 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian political figure (b. 1900)
• June 4 - Dik Browne, American cartoonist (b. 1917)
• June 7 - Don the Beachcomber, American restaurateur (b. 1907)
• June 9 - George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903)
• June 15 - Victor French, American actor and director (b. 1934)
• June 20 - Hilmar Baunsgaard, Danish politician (b. 1920)
• June 24 - Hibari Misora (美空ひばり), Japanese singer and predominant figure in post-war enka music (b. 1937)
• June 27 - Alfred Ayer, British philosopher (b. 1910)
• June 28 - Joris Ivens, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1898)

July

• July 3 - Jim Backus, American actor (b. 1913)
• July 10 - Mel Blanc, American voice actor (b. 1908)
• July 11 - Laurence Olivier, English actor and director (b. 1907)
• July 15 - Laurie Cunningham, English footballer (b. 1956)
• July 16 - Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (b. 1908)
• July 18 - Donnie Moore, baseball player (suicide) (b. 1954)
• July 20 - Forrest H. Anderson, American politician (b. 1913)
• July 22 - Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (b. 1935)
• July 23 - Donald Barthelme, American writer (b. 1931)
• July 30 - Lane Frost, American bull rider (b. 1963)

August

• August 1 - John Ogdon, English pianist (b. 1937)
• August 4 - Maurice Colbourne, British actor (b. 1939)
• August 7 - Mickey Leland, American congressman
• August 12 - William Shockley, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• August 13 - Tim Richmond, American race car driver (b. 1955)
• August 14 - Robert Bernard Anderson, American political figure (b. 1910)
• August 16 - Jean-Hilaire Aubame, French-Gabonese politician (b. 1912)
• August 16 - Amanda Blake, American actress (b. 1929)
• August 20 - George Adamson, Indian-born conservationist (assassinated) (b. 1906)
• August 21 - Raul Seixas, Brazillian singer (b. 1945)
• August 22 - John Clyne, Canadian jurist (b. 1902)
• August 22 - Diana Vreeland, American fashion editor (b. 1929)
• August 22 - Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party (murdered) (b. 1942)
• August 29 - Peter Scott, English naturalist, artist, and explorer (b. 1909)
• August 30 - Joe Collins, baseball player (b. 1922)

September

• September 1 - A. Bartlett Giamatti, American President of Yale University and baseball commissioner (b. 1938)
• September 4 - Ronald Syme, New Zealand-born classicist and historian (b. 1903)
• September 8 - Barry Sadler, American author and musician (b. 1940)
• September 14 - Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban musician (b. 1916)
• September 17 - Hugh Quincy Alexander, American politician (b. 1911)
• September 22 - Irving Berlin, American composer (b. 1888)
• September 28 - Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines (b. 1917)
• September 30 - Horace Alexander, English writer, pacifist, and ornithologist (b. 1889

October

• October 4 - Graham Chapman, English comedian (b. 1941)
• October 4 - Secretariat, American racehorse (b. 1970)
• October 6 - Bette Davis, American actress (b. 1908)
• October 9 - Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (b. 1940)
• October 11 - M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist (b. 1903)
• October 26 - Charles J. Pedersen, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)

November

• November 1 - Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, American civil rights activist (b. 1898)
• November 3 - Timoci Bavadra, Fiji physician and politician (b. 1934)
• November 5 - Vladimir Horowitz, Russian pianist (b. 1903)
• November 11 - Kenneth MacLean Glazier, Sr., Canadian minister and librarian (b. 1912)
• November 12 - Sourou Migan Apithy, Beninese political figure (b. 1913)
• November 22 - C.C. Beck, American cartoonist (b. 1910)
• November 25 - George Cakobau, Fiji Governor General (b. 1912)
• November 26 - Ahmed Abdallah, Comorian politician (b. 1919)
• November 29 - Gubby Allen, English cricketer (b. 1902)
• November 30 - Ahmadou Ahidjo, Cameroonian politician (b. 1924)

December

• December 1 - Alvin Ailey, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1931)
• December 5 - John Pritchard, English conductor (b. 1921)
• December 6 - Frances Bavier, American actress (b. 1902)
• December 6 - Marc Lépine, Canadian mass murderer (b. 1964)
• December 14 - Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (declined) (b. 1921)
• December 16 - Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (b. 1930)
• December 20 - Kurt Böhme, German bass (b. 1908)
• December 22 - Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• December 25 - Nicolae Ceauşescu, Romanian dictator (executed) (b. 1918)

Nobel prize

• Physics - Norman F. Ramsey, Hans G. Dehmelt, Wolfgang Paul
• Chemistry - Sidney Altman, Thomas R. Cech
• Medicine - J. Michael Bishop, Harold E. Varmus
• Literature - Camilo José Cela
• Peace - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
• Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel - Trygve Haavelmo

Templeton Prize

• The Very Reverend Lord MacLeod (Joint Award)
  • Professor Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (Joint Award)

Right Livelihood Award

• The Seikatsu Club Consumers' Cooperative, Melaku Worede, Aklilu Lemma / Legesse Wolde-Yohannes and Survival International