1989

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1950s 1960s 1970s – 1980s – 1990s 2000s 2010s
Years:	1986 1987 1988 – 1989 – 1990 1991 1992

1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. It was also the last year of the 1980s.

Births[change | change source]

January 23 – April Pearson, British actress
February 3 – Vania King, American tennis player
February 9 – Shunta Takahashi, Japanese footballer
February 18 – Zhang Li Yin, Chinese singer
February 21 – Corbin Bleu, American actor
March 12 – Holger Badstuber, German footballer
March 13 – Marko Marin, German footballer
March 14 – Ryohei Yamazaki, Japanese footballer
March 16 – Theo Walcott, English footballer
March 20 – Keisuke Endo, Japanese footballer
March 28 – David Goodwillie, Scottish footballer
April 2 - Midhun Jith, Indian martial artist
April 8 – Koki Otani, Japanese footballer
April 23 – Nicole Vaidisova, German tennis player
May 5 – Chris Brown, American singer
May 11 – Giovani dos Santos, Mexican footballer
May 17 – Tessa Virtue, Canadian ice dancer
June 2 – Freddy Adu, American footballer
June 11 – Shia LaBeouf, American actor
July 23 – Daniel Radcliffe, British actor
August 15 – Joe Jonas, American singer and actor
August 21 – Hayden Panettiere, American actress
September 1 – Bill & Tom Kaulitz, German singers
September 10 – Sanjaya Malakar, American singer
September 13 – Thomas Mueller, German footballer
September 21 – Jason Derulo, American singer
September 23 – Brandon Jennings, American basketball player
October 4 – Kimmie Meissner, American ice skater
October 30 – Seth Adkins, American actor
October 30 – Nastia Liukin, American gymnast
December 13 – Taylor Swift, American singer
December 22 – Jordin Sparks, American singer
December 28 – Mackenzie Rosman, American actress

Deaths[change | change source]

January 7 – Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (b. 1901)
January 23 – Salvador Dali, Spanish painter (b. 1904)
January 24 – Ted Bundy, American serial killer (b. 1946)
February 6 – Chris Gueffroy, last person to be shot at the Berlin Wall (b. 1968)
February 14 – Albert Hawke, Australian politician (b. 1900)
February 17 – Lefty Gomez, American baseball player (b. 1908)
February 26 – Roy Eldridge, American jazz musician (b. 1911)
February 27 – Konrad Lorenz, German scientist (b. 1903)
April 12 – Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (b. 1921)
April 26 – Lucille Ball, American actress (b. 1911)
April 30 – Sergio Leone, movie director (b. 1929)
June 3 – Ayatollah Khomeini, Supreme Leader of Iran (b. 1900)
July 2 – Andrei Gromyko, Soviet politician (b. 1909)
July 10 – Mel Blanc, American actor (b. 1908)
July 11 – Laurence Olivier, British actor (b. 1907)
July 16 – Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (b. 1908)
September 4 – Georges Simenon, Belgian writer (b. 1903)
September 8 – Barry Sadler, American musician (b. 1940)
September 22 – Irving Berlin, Russian-born composer (b. 1888)
September 28 – Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines (b. 1917)
October 4 – Graham Chapman, English comedian (b. 1941)
October 6 – Bette Davis, American actress (b. 1908)
November 5 – Vladimir Horowitz, Russian-born pianist (b. 1903)
December 14 – Andrei Sakharov, Soviet physicist and activist (b. 1921)
December 22 – Samuel Beckett, Irish playwright (b. 1906)
December 25 – Nicolae Ceausescu, dictator of Romania (b. 1918)

Events[change | change source]

January 7 – Akihito becomes Emperor of Japan following the death of Hirohito. The Heisei period begins.
January 8 – the Kegworth Air Disaster – A British Midland Boeing 737 crashes on approach to East Midlands Airport – 44 dead
January 10 – Cuban troops begin withdrawing from Angola
January 10 – Assistant Australian Federal Police commissioner Colin Winchester is shot dead in the driveway of his Canberra home.
January 17 – A gunman kills 5 children, wounds 30 and then shoots himself in Stockton, California
January 20 – George Herbert Walker Bush succeeds Ronald Wilson Reagan as President of the United States of America
January 24 – Serial killer Ted Bundy is executed in Florida's electric chair
January 30 – American Olympic medalist Bruce Kimball is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing two teenagers in a drunk driving accident.
February 3 – Paraguayan leader Alfredo Stroessner is removed from office.
February 14 – Iran issues a fatwa (death warrant) against the writer Salman Rushdie for his novel, The Satanic Verses.
March 24 – The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill occurs at Prince William Sound in southern Alaska. Until 2010 it is the worst oil spill in US history.
June 4 – Protests at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, are brutally crushed. An image of a lone protestor defying a tank is shown worldwide.
August – First sighting of the Aurora, a supposed hyptersonic aircraft ^[1]
October 17 – A major earthquake strikes San Francisco, California.
October 18 – East Germany's leader Erich Honecker resigns.
November 2 – Bad Religion releases No Control, which is considered one of the band's best known works in the history of punk music, along with its predecessor Suffer, which came out in the previous year.
November 17 – The Berlin Wall in Germany starts to come down.
December 22 – The main crossing from East into West Berlin is officially reopened.
December 22 – In Romania, Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu is removed from office.
December 25 – Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena are executed by a firing squad.