1989
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1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.
Births
January
- January 2 - Kaitlin Howell, Canadian actress
- January 22 - Jared Smith, American singer
- January 25 - Yasmien Kurdi, Filipino actress and singer
- January 26 - Emily Hughes, American Figure Skater
- January 30 - Khleo Thomas, American actor/MC
- Marina Golbahari, Afghani actress
February
- February 5 - Jeremy Sumpter, American actor
- February 7 - Louisa Lytton, English actress
- February 12 - Richard Fleeshman, English actor
- February 13 - Carly McKillip, Canadian actress
- February 21 - Kristin Herrera, American actress
March
- March 5 - Jake Lloyd, American actor
- March 16 - Theo Walcott, English footballer
- March 25 - Alyson Michalka, American actress/singer
- March 9- Shad Moss, American Singer
April
- April 18 - Alia Shawkat, American actress
- April 23 - Nicole Vaidišová, Czech tennis player
May
- May 5 - Chris Brown, American singer
- May 29 - Riley Keough, American model
- May 30 - Kevin Covais, American Idol Season 5 Contestant
June
- June 2 - Freddy Adu, Ghanaian-born footballer
July
- July 13 - Sayumi Michishige, Japanese singer
- July 23 - Daniel Radcliffe, British actor
- July 25 - Noel Callahan, Canadian actor
August
- August 8 - Sesil Karatantcheva, Bulgarian tennis player
- August 9 - Stefano Okaka Chuka, Italian footballer
- August 21 - Hayden Panettiere, American actress
September
October
- October 4 - Kimmie Meissner, American figure skater
- October 9 - Cody Posey, American murderer
- October 11 - Michelle Wie, American golf player
November
- November 11 - Reina Tanaka, Japanese singer
- November 20 - Cody Linley, American actor
December
- December 12 - Harry Eden, British actor
- December 18 - Ashley Benson, American actress
- December 27 - Kateryna Lahno, Ukrainian chess player
- December 28 - Mackenzie Rosman, American actress
- December 30 - Ryan Sheckler, American skateboarder
- For musicians born in 1989, see 1989 in music.
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)
- 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
- The Very Reverend Lord MacLeod (Joint Award)
- Professor Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (Joint Award)
- The Seikatsu Club Consumers' Cooperative, Melaku Worede, Aklilu Lemma / Legesse Wolde-Yohannes and Survival International
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