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1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). It was also the last year of the 1980s.
It was a historical turning point for the wave of revolutions that swept the Eastern Bloc, starting in Poland. Collectively known as the Revolutions of 1989, they heralded the death of the Soviet Union two years later and the beginning of the post-Cold War era of United States dominance in world affairs.
Events
January
February
March
- March 1
- The Berne Convention, an international treaty on copyrights, is ratified by the United States.
- A curfew is imposed in Kosovo, where protests continue over the alleged intimidation of the Serb minority.
- Louis Wade Sullivan and James D. Watkins start terms of office as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services and U.S. Secretary of Energy respectively.
- The Politieke Partij Radicalen, Pacifistisch Socialistische Partij, Communistische Partij Nederland and the Evangelical People's Party amalgamate to form Netherlands political party GroenLinks (GL, GreenLeft).
- March 2 – Twelve European Community nations agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century.
- March 3
- March 4
- March 7 – Iran breaks off diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom over Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses.
- March 9 – A strike forces financially troubled Eastern Air Lines into bankruptcy.
- March 13 – A geomagnetic storm causes the collapse of the Hydro-Québec power grid. Six million people are left without power for 9 hours. Some areas in the northeastern U.S. and in Sweden also lose power, and aurorae are seen as far as Texas.
- March 14
- Gun control: U.S. President George H. W. Bush bans the importation of certain guns deemed assault weapons into the United States.
- Christian General Michel Aoun declares a 'War of Liberation' to rid Lebanon of Syrian forces and their allies.
- March 17 – The Civic Tower of Pavia, built in the 14th century, crumbles down.
- March 20 – Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke weeps on national television as he admits marital infidelity.
- March 22
- Clint Malarchuk of the NHL Buffalo Sabres suffers an almost fatal injury when another player accidentally slits his throat.
- Asteroid 4581 Asclepius approaches the Earth at a distance of 700,000 kilometers.
- March 23 – Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce that they have achieved cold fusion at the University of Utah.
The Exxon Valdez
April
- April 1 – Margaret Thatcher's new local government tax, the Poll tax, is introduced in Scotland.
- April 4 – In Brussels, Belgium, NATO celebrates its 40th anniversary.
- April 6 – National Safety Council of Australia chief executive John Friedrich is arrested after defrauding investors to the tune of $235 million.
- April 7 – The Soviet submarine K-278 Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea, killing 41.
- April 9 – Georgian demonstrators are massacred by Red Army soldiers in Tbilisi's central square during a peaceful rally; 20 citizens are killed, many injured.
- April 14 The U.S. government seizes the Irving, CA Lincoln Savings and Loan Association; Charles Keating (for whom the Keating Five were named – John McCain among them) eventually goes to jail, as part of the massive 1980s Savings and Loan Crisis which costs U.S. taxpayers nearly $200 billion in bailouts, and many people their life savings.[1]
- April 15 – The Hillsborough disaster, one of the biggest tragedies in European football, claims the life of 96 Liverpool supporters.
- April 17 – Poland, Solidarity was again legalized and allowed to participate in semi-free elections on June 4.
- April 19
- Trisha Meili is attacked while jogging in New York City's Central Park; as her identity remains secret for years, she becomes known as the "Central Park Jogger."
- A gun turret explodes on the U.S. battleship Iowa, killing 47 crew members.
- April 20 – NATO debates modernising short range missiles; although the U.S. and UK are in favour, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl obtains a concession deferring a decision.
- April 21 – Students from Beijing, Shanghai, Xian, and Nanjing begin protesting in Tiananmen Square.
- April 25
- April 26 – Sultan Azlan Muhibbudin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Yusuff Izzudin Shah Ghafarullahu-lahu, Sultan of Perak, becomes the 9th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
May
June
July
August
- August 23
- Two million indigenous people of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, then still occupied by the Soviet Union, join hands to demand freedom and independence, forming an uninterrupted 600 km human chain called the Baltic Way.
- Hungary removes border restrictions with Austria.
- All of Australia's 1,645 domestic airline pilots resign over an airline's move to sack and sue them over a dispute.
- August 23 – Yusef Hawkins is shot in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, New York, sparking racial tensions between African Americans and Italian Americans.
- August 24
- Record-setting baseball player Pete Rose agrees to a lifetime ban from the sport following allegations of illegal gambling, thereby preventing his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
- Indonesia's first privately owned television station, Rajawali Citra Televisi Indonesia, (RCTI) begins broadcasting.
- August 25 – Voyager II passes the planet Neptune and its moon Triton.
September
October
October 23: Phillips Disaster
- October 9
- October 13 – Friday the 13th mini-crash: The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges 190.58 points, or 6.91 percent, to close at 2,569.26, most likely after the junk bond market collapses.
- October 17 – The Loma Prieta earthquake, measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale, strikes the San Francisco–Oakland region of Northern California, killing 67 people and delaying the 1989 World Series for ten days
- October 18 – The Communist leader of East Germany, Erich Honecker, is forced to step down as leader of the country after a series of health problems.
- October 19 – The Guildford Four are freed after 14 years.
- October 19 – The Wonders of Life pavilion opens at Epcot in Walt Disney World, Florida.
- October 21 – The Heads of Government of the Commonwealth of Nations issue the Langkawi Declaration on the Environment, making environmental sustainability one of the Commonwealth's main priorities.
- October 23 – The Hungarian Republic is officially declared by president Mátyás Szűrös (replacing the Hungarian People's Republic).
- October 23 – The Phillips Disaster in Pasadena, Texas kills 23 and injures 314 others.
- October 31 – The Grand National Assembly of Turkey elects Prime Minister Turgut Özal as the eighth President of Turkey.
November
Germans begin standing on top of the
Berlin Wall; it would begin being physically torn apart in the upcoming days
- ("November 1989" – Cold War: East Germany Nov 7, 9; Bulgaria Nov 10; Czechoslovakia Nov 17, 20, 28)
- November 2 – North Dakota and South Dakota celebrate their 100th Birthdays.
- November 4 – Typhoon Gay devastates Thailand's Chumphon Province.
- November 6 – Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) founded.
- November 7
- November 9
- Yıldırım Akbulut, of ANAP forms the new government of Turkey (47th government)
- Cold War: Günter Schabowski accidentally states in live broadcast press conference that new rules for traveling from East Germany to West Germany will be put in effect "immediately". East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to travel freely to West Germany for the first time in decades (November 17 celebrates Germans began tearing the wall down).
- November 10
- After 45 years of Communist rule in Bulgaria, Bulgarian Communist Party leader Todor Zhivkov is replaced by Foreign Minister Petar Mladenov, who changes the party's name to the Bulgarian Socialist Party.
- Gaby Kennard becomes the first Australian woman to fly non-stop around the world.
- CKO (a Canadian national all-news radio network) suddenly terminates all broadcasting during the newscast at noon (Eastern time), due to financial losses (the station began broadcasting on July 1, 1977).
- November 11 – Louie Espinoza inaugurated as WBO World Featherweight Champion.
- November 12 – Brazil holds its first free presidential election since 1960. This marks the first time that all Ibero-American nations, excepting Cuba, have elected constitutional governments simultaneously.
- November 16
- Six Jesuit priests—among them Ignacio Ellacuría, Segundo Montes, and Ignacio Martín-Baró—their housekeeper, and her teenage daughter, are murdered by U.S. trained Salvadoran soldiers.
- South African President F.W. de Klerk announces the scrapping of the Separate Amenities Act.
- UNESCO adopts the Seville Statement on Violence at the 25th session of its General Conference.
- November 17 – Cold War – Velvet Revolution: A peaceful student demonstration in Prague, Czechoslovakia is severely beaten back by riot police. This sparks a revolution aimed at overthrowing the Communist government (it succeeds on December 29).
- November 20 – Cold War – Velvet Revolution: The number of peaceful protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million.
- November 21 – North Carolina celebrates its bicentennial statehood.
- November 22 – In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President Rene Moawad and kills him.
- November 28 – Cold War – Velvet Revolution: The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces they will give up their monopoly on political power (elections held in December bring the first non-communist government to Czechoslovakia in more than 40 years).
- November 30 – Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a bomb (the Red Army Faction claims responsibility for the murder).
December
- December 1
- December 3 – Cold War: In a meeting off the coast of Malta, U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the Cold War between their nations may be coming to an end.
- December 6 – École Polytechnique Massacre (or Montreal Massacre): Marc Lépine, an anti-feminist gunman, murders 14 young women at the École Polytechnique in Montreal.
- December 10 – Tsakhiagiyn Elbegdorj announces the establishment of Mongolia's democratic movement, that peacefully changes the second oldest communist country into a democratic society.
- December 14 – Chile holds its first free election in 16 years.
- December 15 – Drug baron José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha is killed by Colombian police.
- December 17
- December 19 – Workers in Romanian cities go on strike in protest against the communist regime.
- December 20 – Operation Just Cause is launched in an attempt to overthrow Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega.
- December 21 – Nicolae Ceausescu addresses an assembly of some 110,000 people outside the Romanian Communist Party HQ in Bucharest. The crowd begin to protest against Ceausescu and he orders in the army to attack the protesters.
- December 22
- After a week of bloody demonstrations, Ion Iliescu takes over as president of Romania, ending the communist dictatorship of Nicolae Ceauşescu, who flees his palace in a helicopter to escape inevitable execution after the palace was invaded by rioters. The Romanian troops, who yesterday had followed Ceausescu's orders to attack the demonstrators, change sides and join the uprising.
- Two tourist coaches collide on the Pacific highway north of Kempsey, Australia, killing 35.
- December 23 – Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu are captured in Târgoviște.
- December 25
- Romanian leader Nicolae Ceauşescu and his wife Elena are executed by military troops after being found guilty of crimes against humanity.
- Bank of Japan governors announce a major interest rate hike, eventually leading to the peak and fall of the bubble economy.
- December 28 – A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, killing 13.
- December 29
- Václav Havel is elected president of Czechoslovakia.
- Riots break out after Hong Kong decides to forcibly repatriate Vietnamese refugees.
- Nikkei 225 for Tokyo Stock Exchange hits its all-time intra-day high of 38,957.44 and closing high at 38,915.87.
Undated
- Alan Bond's Bond Corporation goes into receivership with the largest debt in Australian history.
- Homosexual acts between consenting adults are decriminalized in Western Australia.
- Kamchatka opens to Russian civilian visitors.
- The Alize propeller-driven anti-submarine planes are retired from active carrier service in the French Navy.
- The first national park in the Netherlands is established in Schiermonnikoog.
- Ebenezer Floppen Slopper's Wonderful Water slides in Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois closes down after an incident on one of the slides.
- Soviet submarine K-173 (Chelyabinsk) is commissioned.
- The wreck of the Lady Elgin is discovered off Highland Park, Illinois by Harry Zych.
- Richard C. Duncan introduces the Olduvai theory, about the collapse of the Industrial Civilization.
- The NIOS board is established by the Ministry of Human Resource Development of the Government of India.
- The Museum of Jurassic Technology is founded in Culver City, California by David and Diana Wilson.
- The last Golden Toad is seen, the species is now classified extinct.
- The Japan Fantasy Novel Award is established.
Ongoing
Fictional
The following are references to year 1989 in fiction:
- World in Conflict (computer game) – The Soviet Union invades Europe and the United States.
- Red Dawn is set around this year.
- The 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead is set during this year.
- The events of the arcade version of Final Fight occurs in 1989 according to the original Japanese version. The English localization changes the setting to an unspecified year in the 1990s.
Births
January–March
- January 2 – Kaitlin Howell, Canadian actress
- January 3 – Alex D. Linz, American actor
- January 3 – Anya Kop, American fashion model
- January 3 – Kōhei Uchimura, Japanese gymnast
- January 7 – Emiliano Insúa, Argentine footballer
- January 9 – Michael Beasley, American basketball player
- January 11 – Chris Perry-Metcalf, British actor
- January 14 – Frankie Sandford, British singer
- January 20 – Nadia Di Cello, Argentine actress
- January 21 – Katie Griffiths, English actress
- January 21 – Dogus Balbay, American Basketball player
- January 21 – Sergey Fesikov, Russian swimmer
- January 22 – Jared Smith, American singer
- January 24 – Calvin Goldspink, British singer
- January 25 – Mikako Tabe, Japanese stage and film actress
- January 25 – Yasmien Kurdi, Filipino actress and singer
- January 26 – Emily Hughes, American figure skater
- January 27 – Daisy Lowe, British model
- January 30 – Khleo Thomas, American actor and rapper
- February 3 – Ryne Sanborn, American actor
- February 5 – Jeremy Sumpter, American actor
- February 7 – Louisa Lytton, English actress
- February 8 – Danielle Harmer, English actress
- February 9 – Wu Chia-ching, Taiwanese pool player
- February 13 – Rodrigo Possebon, Brazilian footballer
- February 13 – Carly McKillip, Canadian actress
- February 17 – Rebecca Adlington, British swimmer
- February 21 – Corbin Bleu, American actor and singer
- February 21 – Kristin Herrera, American actress
- February 21 – Scout Taylor-Compton, American actress
- February 24 – Kosta Koufos, Greek-American basketball player
- February 24 – Trace Cyrus, American musician
- February 25 – Lee Sang-Hwa, South Korean speed skater
- February 27 – Kelly Breeding, American singer
- March 1 – Daniella Monet, American actress
- March 1 – Carlos Vela, Mexican footballer
- March 5 – Sterling Knight, American actor
- March 5 – Jake Lloyd, American actor
- March 9 – Christina Broccolini, Canadian TV presenter
- March 11 – Anton Yelchin, Russian actor
- March 14 – Colby O'Donis, American singer
- March 15 – Caitlin Wachs, American actress
- March 16 – Peaches Geldof, British performer
- March 16 – Blake Griffin, American basketball player
- March 16 – Theo Walcott, English footballer
- March 21 – Rochelle Wiseman, British singer (S Club Juniors & The Saturdays)
- March 25 – Scott Sinclair, English footballer
- March 25 – Alyson Michalka, American actress and singer
April–June
- April 8 – Nicholas Megalis, American singer-songwriter
- April 8 – Hitomi Takahashi, Japanese singer
- April 18 – Alia Shawkat, American actress
- April 18 – Jung Su-yeon, Korean singer SNSD
- April 23 – Anastasia Baranova, Russian-born actress
- April 23 – Nicole Vaidišová, Czech tennis player
- April 25 – Michael van Gerwen, Dutch darts player
- April 25 – Raquel Donatelli, American reality television star
- May 4 – Dániel Gyurta, Hungarian swimmer
- May 4 – James van Riemsdyk, American ice hockey player
- May 5 – Chris Brown, American singer and actor
- May 10 – Lindsey Shaw, American actress
- May 11 – Giovani dos Santos,Mexican footballer
- May 12 – Imogen Poots, English actress
- May 15 – Lee Soon-Kyu, Korean singer SNSD
- May 29 – Riley Keough, American model
- May 30 – Kevin Covais, American Idol Season 5 Contestant
- June 2 – Freddy Adu, American soccer player
- June 7 – Shelley Buckner, American actress
- June 8 – Richard Fleeshman, English actor
- June 9 – Chloe Agnew, Irish singer
- June 13 – Tommy Searle , British Motocross Racer
- June 14 – Svetlana Raznatovic,Serbian singer
- June 18 – Renee Olstead, American actress and singer
- June 20 – Christopher Mintz-Plasse, American actor
- June 22 – Jeffrey Earnhardt, American race car driver
- June 27 – Matthew Lewis, British actor
- June 27 – Bruna Tenório, Brazilian supermodel
July–September
- July 1 – Mitch Hewer, British actor
- July 11– David Henrie, American actor
- July 12– Phoebe Tonkin, Australian actress
- July 13 – Sayumi Michishige, Japanese singer
- July 14 – Cyril Rioli, Australian rules footballer
- July 14 – Sean Flynn-Amir, American actor
- July 15 – Tristan Wilds, American actor
- July 18 – Yohan Mollo, French Footballer
- July 21 – Rory Culkin, American actor
- July 21 – Jamie Waylett, British actor
- July 23 – Daniel Radcliffe, British actor
- July 23 – Zhong An Qi, Taiwanese singer
- July 25 – Noel Callahan, Canadian actor
- July 27 – Charlotte Arnold, Canadian actress
- August 1 – Stephanie Hwang, Korean singer SNSD
- August 8 – Sesil Karatantcheva, Bulgarian tennis player
- August 9 – Stefano Okaka Chuka, Italian footballer
- August 10 – Sam Gagner, Canadian ice hockey player
- August 14 – Kyle Turris, Canadian ice hockey player
- August 15 – Belinda, Mexican singer and actress
- August 15 – Joe Jonas, American musician actor and singer
- August 19 – Romeo, American rapper and actor
- August 21 – Hayden Panettiere, American actress and singer
- August 23 – Breanna Conrad, American reality television star
- September 2 – Alexandre Pato, Brazilian footballer
- September 9 – Hugh Mitchell, British actor
- September 9 – Sean Malto, American Professional Skateboarder
- September 10 – Sanjaya Malakar, American singer and American Idol finalist
- September 13 – Thomas Müller, German football player
- September 15 – Steliana Nistor, Romanian gymnast and Olympic medalist
- September 19 – Tyreke Evans, American basketball player, 2010 NBA Rookie of the Year
- September 24 – Brandon Jennings, American basketball player
- September 26 – Emma Rigby, British actress
- September 27 – Park Taehwan, South Korean swimmer
- September 29 – Theo Adams, British performance artist
October–December
- October 1 – Brie Larson, American actress
- October 4 – Lil Mama, American rapper
- October 4 – Kimmie Meissner, American figure skater
- October 4 – Viktoria Rebensburg, German alpine skier
- October 11 – Michelle Wie, American golf player
- October 27 – Erik Kloeker, American juggler
- October 30 – Nastia Liukin, American gymnast and Olympic gold medalist
- November 3 – Paula DeAnda, Mexican-American singer
- November 6 – Jozy Altidore, American soccer player
- November 11 – Reina Tanaka, Japanese singer
- November 14 – Jake Livermore, English footballer
- November 15 – Tim Corcoran, American acrobat
- November 20 – Cody Linley, American actor
- November 27 – Freddie Sears, English footballer
- December 2 – Cassie Steele, Canadian actress and singer
- December 4 – Garron DuPree, American musician
- December 7 – Nicholas Hoult, British actor
- December 12 – Helen Flanagan, English actress
- December 13 – Taylor Swift, American country/pop music singer
- December 18 – Ashley Benson, American actress
- December 19 – Valdimar Bergstað, Icelandic Horse rider
- December 22 – Jordin Sparks, American singer and American Idol winner
- December 26 – Yohan Blake, Jamaican athlete
- December 27 – Kateryna Lahno, Ukrainian chess player
- December 28 – Mackenzie Rosman, American actress
- December 28 – Jessie Buckley, Irish actress and singer
- December 30 – Ryan Sheckler, American skateboarder
Unknown dates
- Marina Golbahari, Afghani actress (born circa 1989)
- For musicians born in 1989, see 1989 in music.
Deaths
January–March
- January 3 – Robert Banks, American chemist (b. 1921)
- January 4 – Dvora Netzer, Israeli politician (b. 1897)
- January 7 – Frank Adams, British mathematician (b. 1930)
- January 7 – Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (b. 1901)
- January 8 – Kenneth McMillan, American actor (b. 1932)
- January 10 – Hai Teng, abbott of Shaolin Temple (b. 1902?)
- January 10 – Herbert Morrison, American radio reporter (b. 1905)
- January 10 – Donald Voorhees, American composer and musician (b. 1903)
- January 11 – August Koern, Estonian statesman and diplomat (b. 1900)
- January 13 – Joe Spinell, American actor (b. 1936)
- January 16 – Trey Wilson, American actor (b. 1948)
- January 19 – Norma Varden, English actress (b. 1898)
- January 20 – Beatrice Lillie, Canadian actress (b. 1894)
- January 21 – Carl Furillo, American baseball player (b. 1922)
- January 21 – Billy Tipton, American musician (b. 1914)
- January 22 – Kazi Uzair, Pakistani pediatrician, student leader (b. 1959)
- January 23 – Salvador Dalí, Spanish artist (b. 1904)
- January 24 – Ted Bundy, American serial killer (executed) (b. 1946)
- January 27 – Bayani Casimiro, Filipino dancer and actor (b. 1918)
- February 1 – Elaine de Kooning, American artist (b. 1919)
- February 2 – Ondrej Nepela, Slovakian figure skater (b. 1951)
- February 3 – John Cassavetes, American actor and author (b. 1929)
- February 3 – Glenna Collett-Vare, American golfer (b. 1903)
- February 5 – Joe Morrison, University of South Carolina Head Football Coach ( b. 1937)
- February 6 – Ron Field, American choreographer (b. 1934)
- February 6 – Barbara Tuchman, American historian (b. 1912)
- February 9 – Osamu Tezuka, Japanese Manga artist, e.g. Astroboy (b. 1928)
- February 11 – T.E.B. Clarke, English screenwriter (b. 1907)
- February 11 – George O'Hanlon, American actor and director (b. 1912)
- February 17 – Lefty Gomez, Mexican-American baseball player (b. 1908)
- February 17 – Joe Raposo, musician, composer for Sesame Street and The Electric Company (b. 1937)
- February 21 – Moshe Unna, Israeli politician (b. 1902)
- 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 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 11 – James Kee, American politician (b. 1917)
- March 12 – Maurice Evans, English actor (b. 1901)
- March 14 – Edward Abbey, American author and environmentalist (b. 1927)
- March 14 – Stephen D. Bechtel, Sr., American businessman (b. 1900)
- March 14 – Empress Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Wife of Emperor Charles I, last Empress of Austria (b. 1892)
- March 17 – Merritt Butrick, American actor (b. 1959)
- March 19 – Alan Civil, English French horn player (b. 1929)
- March 21 – Milton Frome, American actor (b. 1909)
- March 27 – May Allison, American actress (b. 1890)
- March 27 – Malcolm Cowley, American author (b. 1898)
- March 27 – Jack Starrett, American actor and director (b. 1936)
- March 27 – Scott Safran, Arcade game world record holder (b. 1967
- March 29 – Bernard Blier, French actor (b. 1916)
April–June
- April 1 – George Robledo, Chilean soccer player (b. 1926)
- April 9 – Moshe Ziffer, Israeli sculptor (b. 1902)
- April 12 – Gerald Flood, British actor (b. 1927)
- April 12 – Abbie Hoffman, American political activist (b. 1936)
- April 12 – Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (b. 1921)
- April 15 – Hu Yaobang, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b. 1915)
- April 15 – Charles Vanel, French actor (b. 1892)
- April 16 – Jocko Conlan, baseball player and umpire (b. 1899)
- April 19 – Daphne du Maurier, English writer (b. 1907)
- April 21 – Princess Deokhye, Princess of Korea (b. 1912)
- April 21 – James Kirkwood, Jr., American playwright (b. 1924)
- April 22 – Emilio G. Segrè, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
- April 25 – George Coulouris, English actor (b. 1903)
- April 26 – Lucille Ball, American entertainer (b. 1911)
- April 27 – Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (b. 1894)
- April 30 – Sergio Leone, Italian film director (b. 1929)
- April 30 – Bangja, Crown Princess Euimin of Korea, (b. 1901)
- May 1 – Sally Kirkland, fashion editor at LIFE (b. 1912)
- May 3 – Christine Jorgensen, transgendered actress, singer, and writer (b. 1926)
- May 7 – Guy Williams, American actor (b. 1924)
- May 9 – Keith Whitley, American singer (b. 1955)
- May 15 – Johnny Green, American songwriter (b. 1908)
- May 19 – C. L. R. James, Trinidadian writer and journalist (b. 1901)
- May 19 – Robert Webber, American actor (b. 1924)
- May 20 – Anton Diffring, German actor (b. 1918)
- May 20 – John Hicks, English economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
- May 20 – Gilda Radner, American comedian and actress (b. 1946)
- May 26 – Don Revie, English Footballer & Manager (b. 1927)
- May 29 – John Cipollina, American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (b. 1943)
- May 30 – James Harry Lacey, British World War II RAF Fighter pilot (b. 1917)
- June 3 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Supreme Leader of Iran (b. 1900)
- June 3 – John McCauley, NHL official
- 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 10 – Richard Quine, American actor (b. 1920)
- June 13 – Fran Allison, actress (b. 1907)
- June 15 – Victor French, American actor and director (b. 1934)
- June 17 – John Matuszak, American football player and actor (b. 1950)
- June 20 – Hilmar Baunsgaard, Danish politician (b. 1920)
- June 22 – Lee Calhoun, American Olympic athlete (b. 1933)
- June 22 – Menahem Stern, Israeli historian (b. 1925)
- June 24 – Hibari Misora, Japanese singer (b. 1937)
- June 27 – Alfred Ayer, British philosopher (b. 1910)
- June 27 – Jack Buetel, American actor (b. 1915)
- June 28 – Joris Ivens, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1898)
July–September
- July 2 – Andrei Gromyko, former USSR politician, diplomat(b. 1909)
- July 2 – Ben Wright, English Actor in radio, film and television(b. 1915)
- July 2 – Franklin Schaffner, American film director (b. 1920)
- July 3 – Jim Backus, American actor (b. 1913)
- July 6 – János Kádár, Hungarian politician & communist leader (b. 1912)
- July 10 – Mel Blanc, American voice actor (b. 1908)
- July 11 – Laurence Olivier, prolific English stage and screen actor and director (b. 1907)
- July 15 – Laurie Cunningham, English footballer (b. 1956)
- July 16 – Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (b. 1908)
- July 17 – Itubwa Amram, Nauruan pastor and politician (b. 1922)
- July 18 – Donnie Moore, baseball player (suicide) (b. 1954)
- July 18 – Rebecca Schaeffer, American actress (b. 1967)
- July 19 – Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish president (b. 1913)
- 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 23 – Michael Sundin, English television presenter (b. 1961)
- July 24 – Ernie Morrison, American actor (b. 1912)
- July 30 – Lane Frost, American bull rider (b. 1963)
- August 1 – John Ogdon, English pianist (b. 1937)
- August 4 – Maurice Colbourne, British actor (b. 1939)
- August 4 – Franziska Liebing, Swedish actress (b. 1901)
- August 7 – Mickey Leland, American congressman (b. 1944)
- 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 20 – Joseph LaShelle, American cinematographer (b. 1900)
- August 21 – Raul Seixas, Brazilian 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 23 – Ronald David Laing, Scottish psychiatrist (b. 1927)
- August 26 – Irving Stone, American writer (b. 1903)
- August 29 – Peter Scott, English naturalist, artist, and explorer (b. 1909)
- August 30 – Joe Collins, baseball player (b. 1922)
- September 1 – A. Bartlett Giamatti, American President of Yale University and MLB Commissioner (b. 1938)
- September 4 – Georges Simenon, Belgian writer (b. 1903)
- 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 15 – Robert Penn Warren, American writer (b. 1905)
- 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)
- September 30 – Virgil Thomson, American composer (b. 1896)
October–December
Franz Joseph II
- October 4 – Graham Chapman, English comedian (Monty Python) (b. 1941)
- 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 16 – Scott O'Dell, children's writer and winner of 5 Newbery Awards (b. 1898)
- October 16 – Cornel Wilde, American actor (b. 1915)
- October 20 – Dahn Ben-Amotz, Israeli joyrnalist and author (b. 1924)
- October 20 – Anthony Quayle, English actor (b. 1913)
- October 22 – Roland Winters, American actor (b. 1904)
- October 25 – Mary McCarthy, American writer (b. 1912)
- October 26 – Charles J. Pedersen, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
- October 30 – Pedro Vargas, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1904)
- 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 13 – Victor Davis, Canadian Olympic swimmer (b. 1964)
- November 13 – Franz Joseph II, 14th Sovereign Prince of Liechtenstein (b. 1906)
- November 20 – Lynn Bari, American actress (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 1 – Alvin Ailey, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1931)
- December 2 – Ray Morehart, American baseball player (b. 1899)
- December 5 – John Pritchard, English conductor (b. 1921)
- December 6 – Frances Bavier, American actress (b. 1902)
- December 6 – Sammy Fain, American composer (b. 1902)
- December 6 – Marc Lépine, Canadian mass murderer (b. 1964)
- December 6 – John Payne, American actor (b. 1912)
- December 8 – Mikhail Katukov, Russian war hero (b. 1900)
- December 11 – Lindsay Crosby, American singer and actor (b. 1938)
- December 14 – Jock Mahoney, American actor (b. 1919)
- December 14 – Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (declined) (b. 1921)
- December 15 – Edward Underdown, stage and film veteran (b. 1908)
- December 16 – Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (b. 1930)
- December 16 – Aileen Pringle, American actress (b. 1895)
- December 16 – Lee Van Cleef, American actor (b. 1925)
- December 20 – Kurt Böhme, German bass (b. 1908)
- December 21 – Ján Cikker, Slovak composer (b. 1911)
- December 22 – Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
- December 25 – Nicolae Ceauşescu, Romanian dictator (executed) (b. 1918)
- December 25 – Billy Martin, American baseball player and manager (b. 1928)
- December 30 – Yasuji Miyazaki, Japanese Olympic swimmer (b. 1916)
Nobel Prizes
Templeton Prize
See also
References
[2] [1]
Notes
- ↑ NY Times May 3, 1990
- ↑ 1
External links
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