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Gregorian Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was
a common year starting
on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1989th year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 989th year of the 2nd millennium, the 89th year of
the 20th century,
and the 10th and last year of the 1980s decade. 1989 was a turning point in political
history because a wave of revolutions swept the Eastern Bloc in Europe, starting in
Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power sharing, coming to a head with
the opening of the Berlin Wall in November, and the Velvet Revolution in
Czechoslovakia, embracing the overthrow of the communist dictatorship in
Romania in December, and ending in December 1991 with the dissolution
of the Soviet Union. Collectively known as the Revolutions of 1989. It was the year of the first Brazilian
presidential elections in 29 years, since the end of
the military
government in 1985which
commanded the country for more than twenty years, and marked the
redemocratization process's final point. F. W. de Klerk was elected in South
Africa, and his regime gradually dismantled the Apartheid system over the next five
years, culminating with the 1994
election that brought jailed ANC leader Nelson Mandela to power. In contrast, the year saw the violent
suppression of mass political protest in China, in June. The Tiananmen
Square protests of 1989 ended with a military crackdown
resulting in the deaths of a number of protesters. The first commercial Internet
service providers surfaced in this year,[1][2] as
well as the first written proposal for the World Wide Web and New Zealand, Japan
and Australia's first Internet connections. The first babies born after preimplantation
genetic diagnosis were conceived in late 1989, starting the
era of designer babies.[3] 1989 marked the beginning of the current Heisei period in Japan. It is also the
latest year, when written in Roman numerals, to have an L. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] January 20: George H. W. Bush,
41st President of the United States ·
January 2 – Prime
Minister Ranasinghe Premadasa takes
office as the third President of Sri
Lanka. ·
January 4 – Gulf of
Sidra incident (1989): Two Libyan MiG-23
"Floggers" are engaged and shot down by 2 US
Navy F-14 Tomcats. ·
January 7 – Hirohito dies, and Akihito is enthroned as the 125th Emperor of Japan immediately, followed
by the change in the era name from Showa to Heisei on the following day. ·
January 8 – Kegworth air
disaster: A British Midland Boeing 737 crashes on approach to East Midlands
Airport, leaving 47 dead. ·
January 10 – In accordance with United Nations Security Council Resolution 626 and
the New York
Accords, Cubantroops begin
withdrawing from Angola. ·
Outgoing
U.S. President Ronald Reagan delivers
his farewell address to the nation after eight years in office. ·
The Lexus and Infiniti luxury car brands are launched
at the North
American International Auto Show in Detroit with the unveiling of the
1990 Lexus LS and Infiniti Q45 sedans. ·
Thirty-five
European nations, meeting in Vienna, agree to strengthen human rights and improve East-West
trade. ·
"Palach Week":
A pro-democracy demonstration in Prague is attacked by the police.[4] ·
January 17 – Stockton
schoolyard shooting: Patrick Edward Purdy kills five children,
wounds thirty and then shoots himself in Stockton, California. ·
The Polish
United Workers' Party votes to legalise Solidarity. ·
Ante Marković succeeds Branko Mikulić as Prime
Minister of Yugoslavia. ·
January 20 – George H. W. Bush is sworn
in as the 41st President of the United States. ·
January 23 – A powerful
earthquake in the Tajik
Soviet Socialist Republic kills around 275 people. ·
January 23–24 – Armed civilian leftists
briefly attack
and occupy an Argentinian army base near Buenos Aires. ·
January 24 – Florida executes Ted Bundy by electric chair for the
murders of young women. ·
January 29 – The British children's
television show, Thomas & Friends,
begins airing in the United States with the series premiere of Shining Time Station on PBS. ·
January 30 – Prime Minister
of Canada Brian Mulroney shuffles his cabinet,
appointing six new ministers and reassigning the responsibilities of nineteen
others. February[edit] ·
February 1 – Joan Kirner becomes Victoria's
first female Deputy Premier, after the resignation of Robert Fordham over the
VEDC (Victorian Economic Development Co-operation) Crisis. ·
Soviet–Afghan War:
The last Soviet Union armoured
column leaves Kabul, ending nine years of military
occupation since 1979. ·
Carlos Andrés Pérez takes
office as President of
Venezuela. ·
Satellite
television service Sky Television plc is
launched in Europe. ·
A
military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner,
dictator of Paraguay since 1954. ·
After
a stroke, State
President of South Africa P. W. Botha resigns as Leader of
the National
Party. ·
February 5 – Eurosport, a multiple-language sports
broadcasting station in Europe, a first broadcasts service to start
in Issy-les-Moulineaux, Ile de France, France. ·
February 6 – The Government of
the People's
Republic of Poland holds formal talks with representatives
of Solidarity
movement for the first time since 1981. ·
The People's National
Party, led by Michael Manley, wins the 1989
Jamaican general election. ·
The Los Angeles City Council bans the sale
or possession of semi-automatic firearms. ·
Ron Brown is
elected as Chairman of the Democratic
National Committee, becoming the first African American to lead a major United
States political party. ·
U.S.
President Bush meets Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in Ottawa, laying the groundwork for the Acid Rain Treaty of
1991. ·
February 11 – Barbara Harris is
the first woman consecrated as a bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America (and
also the first woman to become a bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion). ·
Union Carbide agrees to pay
$470,000,000 to the Indian government for damages in the 1984 Bhopal disaster. ·
The
Satanic Verses controversy: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Supreme Leader of
Iran (d. June 3), issues a fatwa calling for the death of
Indian-born British author Salman Rushdie and his publishers for
issuing the novel The Satanic Verses(1988). ·
The
first of 24 Global
Positioning System satellites is placed into orbit. ·
Soviet–Afghan War:
The Soviet Union announces
that all of its troops have left Afghanistan. ·
Following
a campaign that saw over 1,000 people killed in massive campaign-related
violence, the United National
Party wins the Sri
Lankan parliamentary election. ·
February 16 – Pan Am Flight 103:
Investigators announce that the cause of the crash was a bomb hidden
inside a radio-cassette player. ·
The Arab Maghreb Union (AMU)
is formed. ·
South
African police raid the home of Winnie Mandela and
arrest four of her bodyguards. ·
February 20 – In Canada's Yukon Territory, the ruling New Democrats narrowly
maintain control of the Yukon
Legislative Assembly, winning 9 seats vs. the Progressive
Conservative Party's 7. ·
February 23 – After protracted
testimony, the U.S. Senate
Armed Services Committee rejects, 11–9, President Bush's
nomination of John Tower for
Secretary of Defense. ·
February 23–27 – U.S. President Bush visits Japan, China, and South Korea, attending the funeral of Hirohito and then meeting with
China's Deng Xiaoping and
South Korea's Roh Tae-woo. ·
The
funeral of Hirohito is
attended by representatives of 160 nations. ·
The
Satanic Verses controversy: Iran places
a $3,000,000 bounty on the head of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie. ·
Singing Revolution:
After 44 years, the Estonian flag is raised at the Pikk Hermann tower in Tallinn. ·
United
Airlines Flight 811, a Boeing 747, suffers uncontrolled
decompression after leaving Honolulu
International Airport, nine passengers are sucked out of the cabin
to their deaths. ·
February 27 – Venezuela is rocked by the Caracazo, a wave of protests and looting. March[edit] Mass demonstration
at State TV HQ The Exxon Valdez ·
March
– Poland begins to liberalise its currency exchange in
a move towards capitalism.[5] ·
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. ·
The Politieke
Partij Radicalen, Pacifistisch
Socialistische Partij, Communistische
Partij Nederland and the Evangelical
People's Party amalgamate to form the Dutch political
party GroenLinks (GL,
GreenLeft). ·
After
74 years, Iceland ends its prohibition on
beer; celebrated since as bjórdagur or beer day. ·
March 2 – Twelve European Community nations
agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
by the end of the century. ·
March 3 – Jammu Siltavuori abducts and murders
two eight-year-old girls in the Myllypuro suburb of Helsinki, Finland. ·
March 4 ·
Time Inc. and Warner
Communications announce plans for a merger, forming Time Warner. (Now WarnerMedia) ·
The Purley station
rail crash in London leaves five people dead and 94
injured. ·
The
first ACT (Australian
Capital Territory) elections are held. ·
March 7 – Iran breaks
off diplomatic relations with
the United Kingdom over Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses. ·
March 9 – Revolutions of 1989:
The Soviet Union submits
to the jurisdiction of the World Court. ·
March 13 ·
A geomagnetic
storm causes the collapse of the Hydro-Québec power grid.
6,000,000 people are left without power for
nine hours. Some areas in the northeastern U.S. and in Sweden also lose
power, and aurorae are seen as far as Texas. ·
Tim Berners-Lee produces the proposal
document that will become the blueprint for the World Wide Web.[6] ·
March 14 ·
Gun control: U.S. President George H. W. Bush bans
the importation of certain guns deemed to be classed as 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 15 ·
Israel hands over Taba to Egypt, ending a seven-year territorial
dispute. ·
Mass
demonstrations in Hungary,
demanding democracy. ·
March 16 – The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union approves agricultural reforms allowing farmers the
right to lease state-owned farms for life. ·
March 17 ·
The Civic Tower of Pavia, built in the eleventh century,
collapses. ·
Alfredo Cristiani is
elected as President of El
Salvador. ·
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 kilometres (430,000 mi). ·
March 23 – Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce
that they have achieved cold fusion at the University of Utah. ·
March 23–28 – The Socialist
Republic of Serbia passes constitutional changes revoking the
autonomy of the Socialist
Autonomous Province of Kosovo, triggering six days of rioting by
the Albanian majority,
during which at least 29 people are killed. ·
March 24 – Exxon Valdez oil
spill: In Alaska's Prince William Sound,
the Exxon Valdez spills
240,000 barrels (38,000 m3) of oil after running aground. ·
March 26 – The first contested elections for
the Soviet parliament, Congress of People's Deputies, result in
losses for the Communist Party. ·
March 29 – The 61st Academy Awards are
held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, with Rain Man winning Best
Picture. April[edit] The death of Hu Yaobangsparks the beginning of the Tiananmen
Square protests. ·
April 1 – Margaret Thatcher's
new local government tax,
the Poll tax,
is introduced in Scotland. It would be
introduced in England & Wales the following year. ·
April 2 ·
In South-West Africa,
fighting erupts between SWAPO insurgents and
the South West
African Police on the day that a ceasefire was supposed to
end the South African
Border War according to United Nations Security Council Resolution 435.
By April 6, nearly 300 people are killed. ·
April 4 ·
A
failed coup attempt against Prosper Avril, President of Haiti,
leads to a standoff between mutinous troops and the government which ends
on April 10, with the government regaining
control of the country. ·
In Brussels, Belgium, NATO celebrates
its fortieth anniversary. ·
April 5 – The Polish Government and the
Solidarity trade union sign
an agreement restoring Solidarity to legal status, and agreeing to hold
democratic elections on June 1. ·
April 6 – National Safety Council of
Australia chief executive John Friedrich is
arrested after defrauding investors to the tune of $235,000,000. ·
April 7 – The Soviet
submarine K-278 Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea, killing 41. ·
April 9 ·
Tbilisi massacre: Georgian demonstrators
are massacred by Red Army soldiers
in Tbilisi's central square during a peaceful
rally; 20 citizens are killed, many injured. ·
A
dispute over grazing rights leads to the beginning of the Mauritania–Senegal
Border War. ·
April 14 – The U.S. government seizes
the Irvine, California, Lincoln
Savings and Loan Association; Charles Keating (for whom the Keating Five were named) eventually
goes to jail, as part of the massive 1980s savings and loan
crisis which cost U.S. taxpayers nearly $200,000,000 in
bailouts, and many people their life savings.[7] ·
April 15 ·
The
death of Hu Yaobang sparks
the beginning of the Tiananmen
Square protests of 1989. ·
The Hillsborough
disaster, one of the biggest tragedies in European football,
claims the life of 96 Liverpool F.C. supporters. ·
April 17 – Poland, Solidarity is
once again legalised and allowed to participate in semi-free elections on
June 4. ·
April 19 ·
Trisha Meili is
attacked whilst jogging in New York City's Central Park; as her identity remains secret
for years, she is referred to 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 US and UK are in favour, West
German Chancellor Helmut Kohl obtains
a concession deferring a decision. ·
April 21 – Students from Beijing, Shanghai, Xi'an, and Nanjing begin protesting in Tiananmen
Square. ·
April 23 ·
Zaid al-Rifai resigns as Prime Minister
of Jordan in the wake of riots over government-imposed price
hikes that began on April 18. ·
April 25 ·
Noboru Takeshita resigns as Prime Minister of
Japan in the wake of a stock-trading scandal. ·
The
term of Baginda Almutawakkil Alallah Sultan Iskandar Al-Haj
ibni Almarhum Sultan Ismail as the 8th Yang di-Pertuan
Agong of Malaysia ends. ·
Motorola introduces the Motorola MicroTAC Personal
Cellular Telephone, then the world's smallest mobile phone. ·
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. ·
Zaid ibn Shaker succeeds Zaid al-Rifai
as Prime Minister of Jordan. ·
The Daulatpur–Saturia
tornado, the deadliest tornado ever recorded, kills an estimated
1,300 people in the Dhaka Division of Bangladesh. ·
April 27 – A major demonstration occurs
in Beijing, as part of the Tiananmen
Square protests.[4] May[edit] ·
May ·
Transhumanism – Genetic modification of
adult human beings is tried for the first time, a gene tagging trial.[8] ·
The
Soviet Union issues its first Visa card in a step to digitalise their
banking system.[9] ·
May 1 ·
Andrés
Rodríguez, who had seized power and declared himself President of
Paraguay during a military coup in February, wins a landslide
victory at a general
election marked by charges of fraud. ·
Disney-MGM
Studios at Walt Disney World opens
to the public for the first time. ·
May 2 ·
The
first crack in the Iron Curtain:
Hungary dismantles 240 kilometres (150 mi) of barbed wire fencing along
the border with Austria. ·
The
coalition government of Prime
Minister of the Netherlands Ruud Lubbers collapses in a dispute
about a pollution cleanup plan. ·
May 3 – Cold War – Perestroika – The first McDonald's restaurant in the USSR
begins construction in Moscow. It will open on
31 January 1990.[10] ·
May 4 – Oliver North convicted on charges
related to the Iran–Contra affair.
His conviction was thrown out on appeal in 1991 because of his immunised
testimony. ·
May 9 – Andrew Peacock deposes John Howard as Federal Opposition
Leader of Australia. ·
May 10 – The government of President of Panama Manuel Noriega declares void the result
of the May 7 presidential election, which Noriega had lost to Guillermo Endara. ·
May 11 ·
President
Bush orders 1,900 U.S. troops to Panama to protect Americans there. ·
The
ACT (Australian
Capital Territory) Legislative Assembly meets for the first time. ·
May 12–25 – San
Bernardino train disaster: Southern Pacific freight locomotive SP
7551 East derails in a residential area of San
Bernardino, California, killing four and destroying seven houses.
On May 25, 1989, as a direct result of the derailment, the Calnev Pipeline exploded, killing an
additional two people and destroying eleven more houses and 21 cars. ·
May 14 ·
Mikhail Gorbachev visits China, the first Soviet leader to do so
since Nikita Khrushchev in
the 1960s. ·
Carlos Menem wins the Argentine
presidential election. ·
May 15 – Australia's first private
tertiary institution, Bond University, opens on the Gold Coast. ·
May 16 – Ethiopia Coup Attempt: Senior military
officers stage a coup attempt in Ethiopia hours after President Mengistu Haile
Mariam leaves on a visit to East Germany. ·
May 17 – More than 1,000,000 Chinese
protestors march
through Beijing demanding greater democracy. ·
May 19 ·
1989 Ürümqi unrest: Uyghur and Hui Muslim protesters riot in front of
the government building in Ürümqi, China. ·
Tiananmen
Square protests of 1989: Zhao Ziyang meets the demonstrators
in Tiananmen Square. ·
Ciriaco De Mita resigns as Prime Minister of
Italy. ·
May 20 – Tiananmen
Square protests of 1989: The Chinese government declares martial
law in Beijing. ·
May 22 – The Nordland Days in Leningrad region (Leningrad Oblast) open. ·
May 29 ·
Amid food riots and
looting set off by inflation, the Government of Argentina
declares a nationwide state of siege. ·
Boris Yeltsin gains a seat on the Supreme
Soviet of the Soviet Union. ·
Tiananmen
Square protests of 1989: The 10 metres (33 ft) high Goddess of Democracy statue
is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by
student demonstrators. ·
NATO
agrees to talks with the Soviet Union on reducing the number of short-range
nuclear weapons in Europe. ·
An
attempted assassination of Miguel Maza Marquez, director of the Departamento
Administrativo de Seguridad (DAS) in Bogotá, Colombia is committed by members of
the Medellín Cartel,
who kill four and injure 37. ·
May 31 – Six members of the guerrilla
group Revolutionary
Movement Tupac Amaru (MRTA) of Peru, shoot dead eight transsexuals, in the city of Tarapoto.[11] June[edit] People's Liberation
Army were to drive away students in Tiananmen Square. ·
June 1–10 – Pope John Paul II visits Norway, Iceland, Finland, Denmark, and Sweden. ·
June 2 – Sōsuke Uno succeeds Noboru Takeshita as Prime Minister of
Japan. ·
Fighting
breaks out in the Uzbek
Soviet Socialist Republic between ethnic Uzbeks and the Turkish minority; more than 100 people
are killed by June 15. ·
The
world's first HDTV broadcasts commence in Japan,
in analogue.[12] ·
The Tiananmen
Square crackdown takes place in Beijing on the army's
approach to the square, and the final stand-off in the square is covered live
on television. ·
Solidarity's
victory in Polish
elections is the first of many anti-communist revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe in 1989. ·
Ufa train disaster:
A natural gas explosion near Ufa,
Russia kills 645 as two trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky
pipeline. ·
June 5 – An unknown Chinese protestor,
"Tank Man", stands in front of a column
of military tanks on Chang'an Avenue in Beijing, temporarily
halting them, an incident which achieves iconic status internationally
through images taken by Western photographers. ·
June 6 – The Ayatollah Khomeini's
first funeral is aborted by officials after a large crowd storms the funeral
procession, nearly destroying Khomeini's wooden casket in order to get a last
glimpse of his body. At one point, Khomeini's body almost falls to the
ground, as the crowd attempt to grab pieces of the death shroud.[13] ·
June 7 – Surinam
Airways Flight 764 crashes in Paramaribo, Suriname; killing 176. ·
June 12 – The Corcoran Gallery
of Art removes Robert Mapplethorpe's
gay photography exhibition. ·
June 13 – The wreck of the German
battleship Bismarck,
which was sunk in 1941, is located 960
kilometres (600 mi) west of Brest, France. ·
June 15 – At the 1989 Irish
general election, Fianna Fáil, led by Taoiseach Charles Haughey, fails to win a majority. ·
June 16 – A crowd of 250,000 gathers
at Heroes Square in Budapest for the historic reburial
of Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian Prime
Minister who had been executed in 1958. ·
June 18 – In the first
Greek legislative election of the year, the Panhellenic
Socialist Movement, led by Prime Minister
of Greece Andreas Papandreou,
loses control of the Hellenic Parliament,
leading to Papandreou's resignation on July 2. ·
June 21 – British police arrest 250
people for celebrating the summer solstice at Stonehenge. ·
June 22 – Ireland's first universities
established since independence in 1922, Dublin City
University and the University of
Limerick, open. ·
June 24 – Jiang Zemin becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China. ·
June 30 – A military coup led by Omar al-Bashir ousts the civilian
government of Prime Minister of
Sudan Sadiq al-Mahdi. July[edit] ·
July 2 – Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister
of Greece resigns; a new government is formed under Tzannis Tzannetakis. ·
July 5 ·
State
President of South Africa P. W. Botha meets the imprisoned
70-year-old Nelson Mandela face-to-face
for the first time. ·
The
television sitcom Seinfeld premieres. ·
July 6 – The Tel
Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack, the first Palestinian suicide attack on Israel, takes place. ·
July 9–12 – U.S. President George H. W. Bush travels
to Poland and Hungary,
pushing for U.S. economic aid and investment. ·
July 10 – Approximately 300,000 Siberian coal miners go on strike,
demanding better living conditions and less bureaucracy; it is the largest
Soviet labour strike since the 1920s. ·
July 12 – In the Republic of Ireland,
the Taoiseach Charles Haughey returns to power after
Fianna Fáil forms a coalition with the Progressive
Democrats. ·
July 14 – France celebrates the
bicentennial anniversary of the French Revolution. ·
July 14–16 – At the 15th G7 summit, leaders call for
restrictions on gas emissions. ·
July 17 ·
The Northrop
Grumman B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber makes its first flight. ·
Poland
and the Vatican re-establish diplomatic
relations after approximately fifty years. ·
July 18 – Actress Rebecca Schaeffer is
murdered by an obsessed fan, leading to stricter stalking laws in California. ·
July 19 ·
The National
Assembly of the Republic of Poland elects Wojciech Jaruzelski to
the new and powerful post of President of Poland. ·
United
Airlines Flight 232 (Douglas DC-10) crashes in Sioux City, Iowa, killing 112; 184 on board
survive. ·
July 20 – Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is placed under house
arrest. She is released in 2010. ·
July 21 – A total blockade of Armenia and NKAO by Azerbaijan begins. ·
July 23 ·
Japan's
ruling Liberal
Democratic Party loses control of the House of Councillors,
the LDP's worst
electoral showing in 34 years, leading to Prime Minister Uno
announcing he will resign to take responsibility for the result. ·
Giulio Andreotti takes office as Prime Minister of
Italy. ·
July 26 – A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert Tappan Morris for
releasing a computer virus,
making him the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer
Fraud and Abuse Act. ·
July 27 – In what was the largest
prison sentence to date, Thai financial scammer Mae Chamoy Thipyaso and her accomplices are
each sentenced to 141,078 years in prison.[14] ·
July 28 – At the Iranian
presidential election, electors overwhelmingly elect Akbar Hashemi
Rafsanjani as President of Iran and
endorse changes to the Constitution
of the Islamic Republic of Iran, increasing the powers of the president. ·
July 31 ·
In Lebanon, Hezbollah announces that it has
hanged U.S. Marine Lt.
Col. William R. Higgins in
retaliation for Israel's July 28 kidnapping of Hezbollah leader Abdel Karim Obeid.
The same day, the United
Nations Security Council passes United Nations Security Council Resolution 638,
condemning the taking of hostages by both sides in the conflict. ·
Nintendo releases the Game Boy portable video game system in
North America. August[edit] ·
August 2 – Pakistan is readmitted to the Commonwealth of
Nations after leaving it in 1972. ·
August 5 – Jaime Paz Zamora is elected President of Bolivia,
taking office the next day. ·
August 7 ·
U.S.
Congressman Mickey Leland (D-TX)
and fifteen others die in a plane crash in Ethiopia. ·
The
presidents of five Central American countries agree that the
U.S.-backed contras fighting
the government of Nicaragua should
be disbanded and evicted from their bases in Honduras by December 5. ·
August 8 ·
Prime
Minister of New Zealand David Lange resigns for health reasons
and is replaced by Geoffrey
Palmer. ·
STS-28: Space
Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret five-day
military mission. ·
August 9 ·
Toshiki Kaifu becomes Prime Minister of
Japan. ·
The asteroid 4769 Castalia is the first asteroid
directly imaged by radar from Arecibo Observatory. ·
A measure to rescue the savings and loan industry is signed
into law by President Bush, launching the largest federal rescue to date. ·
August 10 – Army General Colin Powell became the first Black
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff after being nominated by President Bush. ·
August 13 – A hot
air balloon accident near Alice Springs, Australia kills thirteen people. ·
P.W.
Botha resigns as State President of South Africa.[15] ·
F. W. de Klerk becomes the seventh and
final State
President of South Africa.[15] ·
August 18 – Leading presidential
hopeful Luis Carlos Galán is
assassinated near Bogotá, Colombia. ·
Polish
president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates
Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to
be Prime Minister,
the first non-Communist in power in 42 years. ·
The Pan-European Picnic,
a peace demonstration, is held at the Austro-Hungarian border. ·
August 19–21 – In response to the murder of a
judge, a provincial police chief, and presidential candidate Galán, the
authorities of Colombia arrest
11,000 suspected Colombian
drug traffickers. ·
In Beverly Hills,
California, Lyle and Erik
Menendez shoot their wealthy parents to death in the family's
den. ·
Fifty-one
people die when the Marchioness pleasure
boat collides with a barge on the River Thames adjacent to Southwark Bridge. ·
August 21 – The 21st anniversary of the
crushing of the Prague Spring is
commemorated by a demonstration in the city.[4] ·
Singing Revolution:
Two million indigenous people of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian SSRs join hands to demand
freedom and independence from Soviet
occupation, 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. ·
Colombia's
cocaine traffickers declare "total and absolute war" against the
government and begin a series of bombings and arson attacks. ·
Voyager 2 makes its closest approach to Neptune. ·
Tadeusz Mazowiecki of
Solidarity is elected Prime Minister of Poland.[4] ·
August 25 – Voyager 2 passes the planet Neptune and its moon Triton. ·
August 31 – In the aftermath of
the Chadian–Libyan
conflict of 1978–87, representatives of Libya and Chad agree
to let the International
Court of Justice determine ownership of the Aouzou Strip, which had been occupied by
Libya since 1973. September[edit] ·
South
African general election, 1989, the last held under the apartheid
system, returns the National
Party to power with a much-reduced majority. ·
At
the 1989 Dutch
general election, the Christian
Democratic Appeal, led by Ruud Lubbers wins 54 seats, and is ultimately
able to form a government on November 7 after entering into coalition with
the Labour Party. ·
September 7 – Representatives of the
government of Ethiopia and Eritrean separatists meet in Atlanta, with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter attempting to broker a
peace settlement. ·
September 8 – Partnair Flight 394 flies
past an F-16 Fighting Falcon on
its way home, then the Convair 580 rolls upside down and falls
in the North Sea. ·
September 10 – The Hungarian government
opens the country's western borders to refugees from East Germany. ·
September 10–11 – Norway's ruling Labour Party loses
eight seats in the parliamentary elections, its worst showing since 1945. ·
An
agreement of co-operation between Leningrad Oblast (Russia) and Nordland County (Norway) is signed in
Leningrad, by Chairmen Lev Kojkolainen and Sigbjørn Eriksen. ·
Standard
Gravure shooting: Joseph T. Wesbecker, a pressman on disability
for mental illness, entered his former workplace and killed eight people and
injured twelve before committing suicide after a history of suicidal
ideation. ·
September 17–22 – Hurricane Hugo devastates the Caribbean and the southeastern
United States, causing at least 71 deaths and $8,000,000,000 in
damages. ·
September 18 – Alleged
coup attempt in Burkina Faso foiled. ·
The Catholic Church calls for removal of
the Carmelite convent located near the former Auschwitz
concentration camp, whose presence had offended some Jewish
leaders. ·
UTA Flight 772 explodes over Niger, killing all 171 people on board
(the Islamic Jihad
Organization claims responsibility). ·
Burkinabé
ministers Jean-Baptiste
Boukary Lingani and Henri Zongo executed following their
arrest the previous day. ·
September 20 – F. W. de Klerk is sworn in as the
seventh and last State
President of South Africa.[15] ·
1989 Deal
barracks bombing: An IRA bomb explodes at the Royal Marine School of Music in Deal, Kent, United Kingdom, leaving 11
people dead and 22 injured. ·
Doe v.
University of Michigan: A Michigan court rules against the hate speech law at the University of
Michigan, claiming it unconstitutional.[16] ·
September 23 – A cease-fire in
the Lebanese Civil War stops
the violence that had killed 900 people since March. ·
September 26 – Vietnam announces that it has withdrawn
the last of its troops from the State of
Cambodia, ending an eleven-year occupation. ·
Nearly
7,000 East Germans who had come to Prague on special refugee trains are
allowed to leave for the West. ·
The Senegambia
Confederation is dissolved over border disagreements. October[edit] ·
October
– Cold War – Perestroika – Nathan's Famous opens a hot dog stand
in Moscow.[17] ·
October 1 – Civil union between partners in a same-sex
relationship becomes legal in
Denmark under a law enacted on June 7, the world's first such legislation.[18][19] ·
A coup
attempt is foiled by Manuel Noriega, military
leader of Panama. ·
The
government of East Germany closes
the country's border with Czechoslovakia to prevent further
emigration to the West.[4] ·
October 5 – The Dalai Lama wins the Nobel Peace Prize. ·
The communist Hungarian
Socialist Workers' Party votes to reorganise itself as
a socialist party, to be named the Hungarian
Socialist Party. ·
The
first mass demonstration against the Communist regime in the GDR began
in Plauen, East Germany, at 7 October 1989 and it was
the beginning of a series of mass demonstrations in the whole GDR which
ultimately led to the reunification of Germany in 1990. ·
An
official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh. ·
In Leipzig, East Germany, protesters demand the
legalisation of opposition groups and democratic reforms. ·
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 bondmarket collapses. ·
Gro Harlem
Brundtland, leader of the Labour Party,
resigns as Prime Minister
of Norway. She is succeeded by Jan P. Syse, Leader of the Conservative
Party, on October 16. ·
October 15 – Walter Sisulu is released from prison
in South Africa.[4] ·
October 17 – The 6.9 Mw Loma Prieta
earthquake shakes the San Francisco Bay
Area and the Central Coast with
a maximum Mercalli
intensity of IX (Violent). Sixty-three people were
killed and the 1989 World Series is
postponed for ten days as a result of the earthquake. ·
The Communist leader of East Germany, Erich Honecker, is forced to step down as
leader of the country after a series of health problems, and is succeeded
by Egon Krenz. ·
The National
Assembly of Hungary votes to restore multi-party democracy. ·
NASA launches
the unmanned Galileo orbiter
on a mission to study the planet Jupiter, via Atlantis mission STS-34. ·
The Guildford Four are freed after fourteen
years. ·
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
sustainabilityone of the Commonwealth's main priorities. ·
The Hungarian Republic is officially
declared by President Mátyás Szűrös (replacing
the Hungarian People's Republic), exactly 33 years after the Hungarian
Revolution of 1956. ·
The Phillips Disaster in Pasadena, Texas kills 23 and injures
314 others. ·
October 28 – United States Flag Protection Act takes
effect. Mass protests in Seattle and New York City ·
October 30 – Shawn Eichman, Dave Blalock, Dread Scott, and Joey Johnson burn American flags on steps of U.S. Capitol
Building to protest Flag Protection Act[20] ·
The Grand
National Assembly of Turkey elects Prime Minister Turgut Özal as the eighth President of Turkey. ·
Half
a million people demonstrate in the East German city of Leipzig.[4] November[edit] Germans standing on
top of the Berlin Wall A peaceful
demonstration in Prague during the Velvet Revolution. ·
November
– First commercial dial-up Internet connection in North America is made, by
The World STD.[21] ·
The President of
Nicaragua ends a ceasefire with U.S.-backed contras that had been in effect
since April 1988. ·
The
border between East Germany and Czechoslovakia is reopened.[4] ·
November 3 – East German refugees arrive at the West
German town of Hof after
being allowed through Czechoslovakia.[4] ·
November 4 – Typhoon Gay devastates Thailand's Chumphon Province. ·
November 6 – The Asia-Pacific
Economic Cooperation (APEC) is founded. ·
Douglas Wilder wins the Virginia gubernatorial race, becoming
the first elected African-American Governor in the United
States. ·
David Dinkins becomes the first African-American mayor of New York
City. ·
Cold War: The Communist government of East Germany resigns, although SED leader Egon Krenz remains as head of state. ·
Cold War and Fall of the Berlin Wall: Günter Schabowski accidentally
states in a live broadcast press conference that new rules for travelling
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 tearing the
wall down). ·
Yıldırım
Akbulut of ANAP forms
the new government of Turkey (47th
government). ·
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 solo 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 12 – Brazil holds its first free
presidential election since 1960. This marks the first
time that all Ibero-American nations,
except Cuba, have elected constitutional
governments simultaneously. ·
November 13 – Hans-Adam
II becomes Prince of Liechtenstein on the death of his
father, Prince Franz
Joseph II. ·
November 14 – Elections are
held in Namibia, leading to a victory for the South
West Africa People's Organisation.[4] ·
Lech Wałęsa, leader of
Poland's Solidarity
movement, addresses a Joint
session of the United States Congress. ·
Brazil
holds the first round of its first free election in 29 years; Fernando Collor
de Mello and Luiz Inácio
Lula da Silva advance to the second round, to be held the
following month. ·
Six
Jesuit priests are murdered by U.S. trained Salvadoran
soldiers. ·
The
first American cosmetics shop,
an Estée Lauder outlet,
opens in Moscow.[17] ·
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 – The Members of the Constituent Assembly of Namibia begin
to draft the Constitution of
Namibia, which will be the constitution of the newly
independent Namibia. ·
November 22 – In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade
of Lebanese President René Moawad, killing him. ·
November 24 – Following a week of
demonstrations demanding free elections and other reforms, General
Secretary Miloš Jakeš and
other leaders of the Communist
Party of Czechoslovakia resign. Jakeš is replaced by Karel Urbánek. ·
November 26 – Uruguayan
general election, 1989: Luis Alberto Lacalle is
elected President of Uruguay. ·
November 27 – Colombian domestic passenger
flight Avianca Flight 203 is
bombed by the Medellín drug cartel in
an (unsuccessful) attempt to kill presidential candidate for the 1990
elections César Gaviria
Trujillo. ·
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 forty
years). ·
November 29 – Rajiv Gandhi resigns as Prime Minister of
India after his party, the Indian National
Congress, loses about half of its seats at the 1989 Indian
general election. ·
November 30 – Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is
killed by a bomb (the Red Army Faction claims responsibility
for the murder). December[edit] Flames engulf a
building following the United
States invasion of Panama. ·
In
a meeting with Pope John Paul II, General
Secretary of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev pledges
greater religious freedom for
citizens of the Soviet Union. ·
Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the
constitutional provision granting the Communist-dominated SED its
monopoly on power. Egon Krenz, the
Politburo and the Central Committee resign two days later. ·
A
military coup attempt begins
in the Philippines against
the government of Philippine President Corazon C. Aquino.
It is crushed by United States intervention ending by December 9. ·
The Solar Maximum
Mission scientific
research satellite, launched in 1980, crashes back to earth. ·
V. P. Singh takes office as Prime Minister of
India. ·
In
the Republic
of China legislative election, the Kuomintang suffers its worst election
setback in forty years, winning only 53% of the popular vote. ·
The Second Malayan
Emergency concludes with a peace agreement. The Malayan Communist
Party disbands and Chin Peng remains in exile in Thailand until his death in 2013. ·
The
entire leadership of the ruling Socialist
Unity Party in East Germany, including Egon Krenz, resigns. ·
Cold War: Malta Summit – 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 4 – Prime Minister
of Jordan Zaid ibn Shaker resigns and is replaced
by Mudar Badran. ·
The DAS Building bombing occurs
in Bogotá, killing 52 people and injuring about
1,000. ·
Egon Krenz resigns as Chairman of the State Council of the German Democratic
Republic, and is replaced by Manfred Gerlach, the first non-Communist to
hold that post. ·
École
Polytechnique massacre (or Montreal Massacre): Marc Lépine, an anti-feminist gunman,
murders fourteen young women at the École
Polytechnique de Montréal. ·
Ladislav Adamec resigns as Prime
Minister of Czechoslovakia. He is succeeded by Marián Čalfa on
December 10. ·
Singing Revolution:
The Lithuanian
Soviet Socialist Republic becomes the first of the republics
of the Soviet Union to abolish the Communist Party's monopoly
on power. ·
December 9 – The Socialist
Unity Party of Germany elects the reformist Gregor Gysi as party leader. ·
President of
Czechoslovakia Gustáv Husák swears
in a new cabinet with a non-Communist and then immediately resigns as
president. ·
Tsakhiagiin
Elbegdorj announces the establishment of Mongolia's
democratic movement, that peacefully changes the second-oldest Communist
country into a democracy. ·
December 11 – The International
Trans-Antarctica Expedition, a group of six explorers from six nations,
reaches the South Pole. ·
December 14 – Chile holds its first
free election in sixteen years, electing Patricio Aylwin as president. ·
December 15 – Drug baron José Gonzalo
Rodríguez Gacha is killed by Colombian police. ·
The Romanian Revolution begins
in Timișoara when
rioters break into the building housing the District Committee of the
Romanian Communist Party and cause extensive damage. Their attempts to set
the buildings on fire are foiled by military units. ·
Brazil holds the second round of
its first
free election in 29 years; Fernando Collor
de Mello is elected to serve as President from 1990. ·
December 19 – Workers in Romanian
cities go on strike in protest against the Communist regime. ·
December 20 – The United
States invasion of Panama ("Operation Just Cause")
is launched in an attempt to overthrow Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega. ·
December 21 – Nicolae
Ceaușescu addresses an assembly of some 110,000 people
outside the Romanian Communist Party headquarters in Bucharest. The crowd begin to protest
against Ceaușescu and he addresses protesters to calm down. ·
After
a week of bloody demonstrations, Ion Iliescu takes over as President
of Romania, ending the communist dictatorship of Nicolae
Ceaușescu, who flees his palace in a helicopter after the
palace is invaded by rioters. ·
Two
tourist coaches collide on the Pacific highway north of Kempsey,
Australia, killing 35 people. ·
December 23 – Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu are
captured in Târgoviște. ·
Romanian
leader Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena are executed. ·
Bank of Japan governors announce a
major interest rate hike, eventually leading to the peak and fall of
the bubble economy. ·
December 28 – A M 5.6
magnitude earthquake hits Newcastle, New
South Wales, Australia, killing 13 people. ·
Czech
writer, philosopher and dissident Václav Havel is elected the first
post-Communist 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. ·
Spümcø, the company that produces Ren and Stimpy, is incorporated in
California.[22] ·
December 31 – Poland's president signs
the Balcerowicz Plan,
ending the state socialist system
in Poland in favor of a capitalist system and Polish
involvement in the Warsaw Pact.[23] Date unknown[edit] ·
The
first Al-Qaeda-related cell in the United States
begins operation in New York City. ·
Alan Bond's Bond Corporation goes into receivership
with the largest debt in Australian history. ·
The
United States leaves its embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, it does not return
until late-2001. ·
Homosexual
acts between consenting adults are decriminalised in Western Australia. ·
Kamchatka opens to Russian civilian
visitors. ·
The Breguet Alizé 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 after an incident on one of the
slides. ·
Soviet submarine
K-173 (Chelyabinsk) is commissioned. ·
Richard C. Duncan introduces
the Olduvai theory,
about the collapse of 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 as extinct. ·
A major incident of
religious violence rocks Bhagalpur, Bihar killing nearly 1,000 people. ·
The Japan Fantasy
Novel Award is established. ·
The
global concentration of carbon
dioxide in Earth's atmosphere reaches 350 parts per million
by volume. ·
Walmart posts revenues and profits
triple its 1986 figures and rivals Kmart and Sears in importance in the American
market.[24] ·
N.W.A are the first gangsta rap group to sell 1,000,000
copies of an album. Their controversial 1988 debut album Straight Outta
Compton.[25] ·
The South African military dismantles its
last nuclear weapons. Births[edit] January[edit] ·
Adèle Haenel, French actress ·
Edita
Vilkevičiūtė, Lithuanian model ·
January 2 – Kaitlin Howell, Canadian actress ·
Alex D. Linz, American actor ·
Anya Kop, American fashion model ·
Kōhei Uchimura,
Japanese gymnast ·
Kariem Hussein, Swiss 400 metres hurdler ·
Labrinth, British urban and hip-hop musician ·
Sessilee Lopez, American model ·
Julius Yego, Kenian javelin thrower ·
Andy Carroll, English footballer ·
James Durbin, American Idol contestant ·
Nicky Romero, Dutch DJ ·
Emiliano Insúa,
Argentine footballer ·
Khairul Fahmi Che
Mat, Malaysian footballer ·
January 8 – Steven
Christopher Parker, American actor ·
Michael Beasley, American basketball player ·
Nina Dobrev, Bulgarian-born Canadian actress ·
Conor Dwyer, American Olympic swmmer ·
Emily Meade, American actress ·
Heo Sol-ji, South Korean singer (EXID) ·
Chris Perry-Metcalf,
British actor ·
Naif Hazazi, Saudi footballer ·
January 12 – Arci Muñoz, Filipina actress and model ·
January 13 – Beau Mirchoff, American-Canadian actress ·
January 14 – Frankie Sandford, British singer ·
Alexei Cherepanov,
Russian ice hockey player (d. 2008) ·
Keiffer Hubbell, American ice dancer ·
Tasha Reign, American pornographic actress,
nude model, stripper, producer and sex columnist ·
Ronny Vencatachellum,
Mauritian swimmer ·
Ryan Corr, Australian actor ·
January 16 – Yvonne Zima, American actress ·
Yani Tseng, Taiwanese golfer ·
Kelly Marie Tran, American actress ·
Kim Bùi, German artistic gymnast ·
Nadia Di Cello, Argentine actress ·
Katie Griffiths, British actress ·
Doğuş
Balbay, American basketball player ·
Sergey Fesikov, Russian swimmer ·
Henrikh Mkhitaryan,
Armenian footballer ·
Calvin Goldspink, British actor ·
Gong Lijiao, Chinese shot putter ·
January 25 – Mikako Tabe, Japanese stage and film actress ·
Emily Hughes, American figure skater ·
Hannah Arterton, English actress ·
Ricky van
Wolfswinkel, Dutch footballer ·
Daisy Lowe, British fashion model ·
January 28 – Bruno Massot, French-born German pair skater ·
Jahvid Best, American NFL player ·
Lee Gun-woo, South Korean singer ·
Khleo Thomas, American actor and rapper February[edit] ·
February 3 – Ryne Sanborn, American actor ·
February 4 – Larissa Ramos, Brazilian Miss Earth 2009
winner ·
Cristine Reyes, Filipina actress ·
Jeremy Sumpter, American actor ·
Louisa Lytton, British actress ·
Neil Taylor,
Welsh footballer ·
Isaiah Thomas,
American basketball player ·
February 8 – Dani Harmer, British actress ·
Wu Chia-ching, Taiwanese pool player ·
Maxime
Dufour-Lapointe, Canadian freestyle skier ·
Jesse Rath, Canadian actor ·
Lovi Poe, Filipina actress ·
Carly McKillip, Canadian actress ·
Katie Volding, American actress ·
Rodrigo Possebon, Brazilian footballer ·
February 15 – Bonnie Dennison, American actress ·
Elizabeth Olsen, American actress ·
Zivanna Letisha
Siregar, Indonesian model ·
Rebecca Adlington,
British swimmer ·
Chord Overstreet, American actor, singer and
musician ·
Jack Falahee, American actor ·
Mayu Kuroda, Japanese artistic gymnast ·
Corbin Bleu, American actor and singer ·
Kristin Herrera, American actress ·
Scout Taylor-Compton,
American actress ·
February 23 – Chris Conte, American NFL player ·
Trace Cyrus, American musician ·
Daniel Kaluuya, English actor ·
Kosta Koufos, Greek-born American basketball
player ·
Kana Hanazawa, Japanese voice actress and
singer ·
Lee Sang-hwa, South Korean speed skater ·
February 26 – Anastassiya Bannova,
Kazakh archer ·
Kelly Breeding, American singer ·
Stephen Kiprotich,
Ugandan marathoner ·
Stefano Langone, American singer ·
Lloyd Rigby, English footballer ·
February 28 – Zhang Liyin, Chinese singer March[edit] ·
March 1 ·
Emma, Australian professional wrestler ·
Carlos Vela, Mexican footballer ·
Daniella Monet, American actress ·
March 2 ·
Nathalie Emmanuel,
English actress ·
Jean-Frédéric
Chapuis, French Olympic freestyle skier ·
March 3 – Andrea Brooks, Canadian actress ·
March 4 – Erin Heatherton, American fashion model ·
March 5 ·
Jake Lloyd, American actor ·
Sterling Knight, American actor ·
March 6 – Agnieszka
Radwańska, Polish tennis player ·
March 7 – Gerald Anderson, Filipino actor ·
March 9 – Kim Tae-yeon, South Korean singer (Girls' Generation) ·
March 10 – Đỗ Thị Ngân Thương, Vietnamese
artistic gymnast ·
March 11 ·
Daniella Kertesz, Israeli actress ·
Anton Yelchin, Russian-born American actor
(d. 2016) ·
March 12 – Tyler Clary, American Olympic swimmer ·
March 13 ·
Peaches Geldof, British performer (d. 2014) ·
Pierre Niney, French actor ·
March 14 – Colby O'Donis, American singer ·
March 15 – Caitlin Wachs, American actress ·
March 16 ·
Blake Griffin, American basketball player ·
Theo Walcott, English footballer ·
March 17 ·
Mason Musso, American singer ·
Shinji Kagawa, Japanese football player ·
March 18 ·
Francesco Checcucci,
Italian footballer ·
Lily Collins, British-born American actress,
daughter of Phil Collins,
lead singer of British rock group Genesis ·
Kana Nishino, Japanese singer-songwriter ·
March 19 – Craig Lamar Traylor,
American actor ·
March 20 – Fei Fei Sun, Chinese model ·
March 21 ·
Rochelle Wiseman, British singer (S Club Juniors & The Saturdays) ·
Takeru Satoh, Japanese actor (Rurouni Kenshin) ·
Jordi Alba, Spanish professional footballer ·
March 22 ·
Eva Pereira, Cape Verdean middle distance
runner ·
Karen Rodriguez, American singer ·
J. J. Watt, American football player ·
Aline Weber, Brazilian model ·
March 24 – Aziz Shavershian, Australian bodybuilder
(d. 2011) ·
March 25 ·
Scott Sinclair, English footballer ·
Aly Michalka, American actress and singer ·
March 27 – Stuart Edge, American YouTube personality ·
March 29 – Arnold Peralta, Honduran footballer
(d. 2015) ·
March 31 – Liu Zige, Chinese swimmer April[edit] ·
April 2 ·
Liis Lass, Estonian actress ·
Midhun Jith, Martial artist, Guinness World
Records breaker & World Kickboxing Champion ·
April 3 – Ankit Narang, Indian actor ·
April 4 – Chris Herd, Australian footballer who
currently plays for Premier League team Aston Villa ·
April 5 – Lily James, British actress ·
April 6 – Gabrielle Scollay,
Australian actress ·
April 8 ·
Gabriella Wilde, English actress and model ·
Nicholas Megalis, American singer-songwriter ·
Hitomi
Takahashi, Japanese singer ·
April 9 – Danielle Kahle, American figure skater ·
April 11 – Eka Darville, Australian actor ·
April 12 – Lim Heem Wei, Singaporean artistic gymnast ·
April 13 – Vladislav Yegin, Russian ice hockey player ·
April 17 ·
Beau Knapp, American actor ·
Javed Mohammed, Trinidadian footballer ·
April 18 ·
Jessica Jung, American-born Korean singer,
member of Korean group (SNSD) ·
Alia Shawkat, American actress ·
April 20 ·
Alex Black, American actor ·
Carlos Valdes,
Colombian actor and singer ·
April 22 ·
Catherine Banner, British author ·
Louis Smith,
British gymnast ·
April 23 ·
Anastasia Baranova,
Russian-born American actress ·
Nicole Vaidišová,
Czech tennis player ·
April 25 ·
Raquel Donatelli, American reality
television star ·
Emanuela de Paula,
Brazilian model ·
Michael van Gerwen,
Dutch darts player ·
Aysel Teymurzadeh,
Azerbaijani pop singer ·
April 26 ·
Daesung, South Korean singer ·
Luke Bracey, Australian actor ·
April 27 ·
Lars Bender, German footballer ·
Sven Bender, German footballer ·
Martha Hunt, American model ·
April 28 – Kim Sung-kyu, South Korean singer and dancer
(Infinite) ·
April 29 – Foxes, British singer-songwriter May[edit] ·
May 3 – Katinka Hosszú,
Hungarian swimmer ·
May 4 ·
Dániel Gyurta, Hungarian swimmer ·
Rory McIlroy, Northern Irish golfer ·
James van Riemsdyk,
American ice hockey player ·
May 5 – Chris Brown, American singer and actor ·
May 6 ·
Dominika Cibulková,
Slovak tennis player ·
Otto Knows, Swedish DJ and producer ·
May 7 ·
Arlenis Sosa, Dominican model ·
Earl Thomas,
American football player ·
May 8 ·
Katy B, British singer ·
Nyle DiMarco, American model and activist ·
Nora Arnezeder, French actress ·
May 9 – Shane van Gisbergen,
New Zealander race car driver ·
May 10 – Lindsey Shaw, American actress ·
May 11 ·
Cam Newton, American football player,
Quarterback and #1 on the Carolina Panthers ·
Giovani dos Santos,
Mexican footballer ·
Prince Royce, American singer and songwriter ·
May 12 – Eleftheria
Eleftheriou, Greek-Cypriot singer and actress ·
May 14 ·
Melinda Bam, South African beauty pageant
contestant and model ·
Rob Gronkowski, American football player ·
Alina Talay, Belarusian 100 metres hurdler ·
Alexandra Park,
Australian actress ·
May 15 – Sunny Lee, American-born Korean singer,
member of Korean group (SNSD) ·
May 16 – Pääru Oja, Estonian actor ·
May 17 ·
Tessa Virtue, Canadian ice dancer ·
Olivia Luccardi, American actress and
producer ·
May 18 – Shreevats Goswami,
Indian cricketer ·
May 19 ·
Gaelan Connell, American actor and musician ·
Katie
Moffatt, British journalist and presenter for That's Manchester ·
May 21 ·
Emily Robins, New Zealand actress and singer ·
Hal Robson-Kanu, Welsh footballer ·
May 23 ·
Patrick Hougaard, Danish motorcycle speedway
rider ·
Ezequiel Schelotto,
Italian football player ·
Jeffery Taylor, Swedish basketball player ·
May 24 ·
G-Eazy, American hip-hop rapper and producer ·
Tara Correa-McMullen,
American actress (d. 2005) ·
May 25 ·
Guillaume Boivin, Canadian racing cyclist ·
Aliona Moon, Moldovan pop singer ·
May 26 – Park Yeeun, Korean Singer ·
May 27 – Afgan Syahreza, Indonesian pop singer and
actor ·
May 28 – Alexey Negodaylo, Russian Olympic bobsledder ·
May 29 ·
Eyþór Ingi
Gunnlaugsson, Icelandic singer ·
Riley Keough, American model ·
Brandon Mychal Smith,
American actor ·
May 30 ·
Ailee, Korean-American singer and songwriter ·
Park Hyomin, South Korean singer ·
May 31 ·
Pablo Alborán, Spanish singer ·
Bas Dost, Dutch football player ·
Sean Johnson,
American football player ·
Daul Kim, South Korean model (d. 2009) ·
Marco Reus, German football player ·
Chase Stanley, Australian rugby player ·
Sean Thornley, British tennis player June[edit] ·
June 2 ·
Freddy Adu, American soccer player ·
Austin Davis, American football player ·
Cooper Helfet, American football player ·
Steve Smith,
Australian cricketer ·
Shane Yarran, Australian rules footballer
(d. 2018) ·
June 3 ·
Imogen Poots, British actress ·
Jillette Johnson, American singer ·
June 4 ·
Pawel Fajdek, Polish hammer thrower ·
Eldar Gasimov, Azerbaijani singer ·
June 5 ·
Cam Atkinson, American ice hockey player ·
Monica Castaño,
Colombian beauty queen and model ·
June 6 – Bryn McAuley, Canadian actress ·
June 8 ·
Richard Fleeshman,
British actor ·
Amaury Vassili, French operatic tenor ·
Minami Tsuda, Japanese voice actress ·
June 9 – Chloë Agnew, Irish singer ·
June 10 ·
David
Miller, South African cricketer ·
Alexandra Stan, Romanian singer ·
June 12 – Krista Kleiner,
Filipina-American beauty queen, singer, model, actress and martial artist ·
June 13 ·
Lisa Tucker,
American singer, musical theater and television actress ·
Tommy Searle, British motocross racer ·
June 14 ·
Lucy Hale, American actress and singer ·
Jubin Nautiyal, Indian playback singer ·
June 17 – Simone Battle, American actress and singer
(d. 2014) ·
June 18 ·
Pierre-Emerick
Aubameyang, French-born Gabonese footballer ·
Anna Fenninger, Austrian alpine ski racer ·
Renee Olstead, American actress and singer ·
June 19 – Giacomo Gianniotti,
Italian-Canadian actor ·
June 20 – Christopher
Mintz-Plasse, American actor ·
June 22 ·
Jeffrey Earnhardt,
American race car driver ·
Jung Yong Hwa South Korean musician,
singer-songwriter, record producer and actor. He is the leader of the rock
band CNBlue. ·
June 23 – Lauren Bennett, British singer, dancer,
painter, photographer and model ·
June 25 – Chris Brochu, American actor and
singer-songwriter ·
June 27 ·
Matthew Lewis,
British actor ·
Bruna Tenório, Brazilian supermodel ·
June 28 ·
Andrew Fifita and his twin
brother David Fifita,
Tongans rugby league footballers ·
Mark Fischbach, American YouTube personality ·
Joe Kovacs, American shot putter ·
June 29 – Maciej
Cieśla, Polish graphics designer ·
June 30 ·
Asbel Kiprop, Kenyan middle-distance runner ·
Ginta Lapiņa, Latvian model July[edit] ·
July 1 – Daniel Ricciardo, Formula 1 driver. Drives
for Red Bull F1 ·
July 2 – Dev, American singer ·
July 3 – Elle King, American singer, songwriter and
actress ·
July 7 ·
Kim Bum, South Korean actor ·
Jamie Johnston, Canadian actor and
singer-songwriter ·
July 8 ·
Ahmad Fakri Saarani,
Malaysian footballer ·
Dmitry Abakumov, Russian football player ·
Yarden Gerbi, Israeli world champion judoka ·
July 10 – Fazrul Hazli, Malaysian footballer ·
July 11 ·
David Henrie, American actor ·
Shareeka Epps, American actress ·
July 12 ·
Phoebe Tonkin, Australian actress ·
Xian Lim, American-born Filipino actor,
model and singer ·
Rakep Patel, Kenyan cricketer ·
July 13 – Sayumi Michishige,
Japanese singer ·
July 14 – Cyril Rioli, Australian rules footballer ·
July 15 – Tristan Wilds, American actor and singer ·
July 16 ·
Gareth Bale, Welsh footballer ·
Carlito Olivero, American singer ·
Kim Woo-bin, South Korean model and actor ·
July 18 ·
Yohan Mollo, French footballer ·
Jamie Benn, Canadian ice hockey player ·
July 20 – Rayver Cruz, Filipino actor ·
July 21 ·
Narcissa Wright, speedrunner ·
Jasmine Cephas Jones,
American actress ·
Rory Culkin, American actor ·
Chris Gunter, Welsh footballer ·
Jamie Waylett, British actor ·
Juno Temple, British actress ·
July 22 ·
Keegan Allen, American actor ·
Kamal G, Indian film director, film editor
and film producer ·
Baltasar Breki
Samper, Icelandic actor ·
Trent Boult, New Zealand cricketer ·
July 23 ·
Daniel Radcliffe, British actor ·
KJ Wright, American football player ·
Zhong An Qi, Taiwanese singer ·
July 25 ·
Andrew Caldwell,
American actor ·
Noel Callahan, Canadian actor ·
July 27 – Charlotte Arnold, Canadian actress ·
July 28 ·
Felipe Kitadai, Brazilian Olympic medalist
judoka ·
Amy Yang, South Korean golfer ·
July 29 ·
Jake Smollett, American actor ·
Hona Costello, American singer ·
July 30 – Aleix Espargaró,
Spanish Grand prix motorcycle racer ·
July 31 ·
Alexis Knapp, American actress and singer ·
Marshall Williams,
Canadian actor ·
Jessica
Williams, American actress ·
Zelda Williams, American actress ·
Victoria Azarenka,
Belarusian tennis player August[edit] ·
August 1 ·
Tiffany Hwang, American-born Korean singer,
member of Korean group (SNSD) ·
Madison Bumgarner,
American baseball player ·
Tomoka Kurokawa, Japanese actress ·
Sean
T. Krishnan, Canadian-American actor ·
August 2 ·
Nacer Chadli, Belgian footballer ·
Vanes-Mari Du Toit,
South African netball player ·
August 3 ·
Jules Bianchi, French Formula One driver (d. 2015) ·
Sam Hutchinson, English footballer ·
August 4 ·
Jessica Mauboy, Australian actress and
singer-songwriter (Young Divas) ·
Wang Hao,
Chinese chess player ·
August 5 ·
Nina
Radojčić, Serbian singer ·
Mathieu Manset, French footballer ·
Jessica Nigri, American model and actress ·
Shanshan Feng, Chinese golfer ·
August 7 – DeMar DeRozan, American basketball player ·
August 8 ·
Ken Baumann, American actor and author ·
Sesil Karatantcheva,
Bulgarian tennis player ·
Anthony Rizzo, American baseball player ·
Hannah Miley, British swimmer ·
August 9 ·
Stefano Okaka, Italian footballer ·
Lucy Dixon, British actress ·
Meredith Deane, American actress ·
Jason Heyward, American baseball player ·
Ben Sahar, Israeli footballer ·
Sam Gagner, Canadian ice hockey player ·
Brenton Thwaites, Australian actor ·
Emma Wu, Taiwanese singer and actress (Hey
Girl) ·
Junior Heffernan, Irish cyclist and
triathlete (d. 2013) ·
Sebastian Huke, German footballer ·
Kyle Turris, Canadian ice hockey player ·
Ander Herrera, Spanish professional
footballer ·
Belinda,
Mexican singer and actress ·
Joe Jonas, American musician, actor, and
singer ·
Carlos Pena Jr., American actor, dancer and
singer ·
Denise Oliver, Canadian voice actress ·
August 19 – Romeo Miller, American rapper and actor ·
August 20 – Kirko Bangz, American rapper ·
Rob Knox, English actor (d. 2008) ·
Hayden Panettiere,
American actress and singer ·
August 23 – Breanna Conrad, American reality television
star ·
August 24 – Andrés Mercado,
Colombian actor and singer ·
August 26 – James Harden, American basketball player ·
Daniel Tovar, Mexican actor ·
Juliana Cannarozzo,
American figure skater ·
Cassadee Pope, American singer-songwriter ·
Valtteri Bottas, Formula One driver ·
August 30 – Bebe Rexha, American singer-songwriter September[edit] ·
Bill Kaulitz, German singer (Tokio Hotel) ·
Jefferson Montero,
Ecuadorian footballer ·
Daniel Sturridge, English footballer ·
Zedd,
record producer, DJ, musician, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter. ·
Alexandre Pato, Brazilian footballer ·
September 5 – Kat Graham, Swiss-born American actress,
model, singer and dancer ·
September 7 – Hugh Mitchell,
British actor ·
Avicii, Swedish DJ, remixer, and record
producer (d. 2018) ·
Sebastián Francini,
Argentine actor ·
September 9 – Sean Malto, American professional
skateboarder ·
Freddie Freeman, American baseball player ·
Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs,
Canadian artistic gymnast ·
Andrew Luck, American football player ·
Jon Mannah, Australian rugby league player
(d. 2013) ·
Thomas Müller, German football player ·
Kazumi Evans, Canadian voice actress and
singer ·
Logan Henderson, American actor, dancer, and
singer ·
September 15 – Steliana Nistor, Romanian artistic gymnast ·
September 19 – Tyreke Evans, American basketball player,
2010 NBA Rookie of the Year ·
Jason Derulo, American urban singer, actor ·
Emma Watkins, Australian Entertainer, first
female lead member of The Wiggles since
2013 ·
Hyoyeon Kim, Korean singer, member of Korean
group (SNSD) ·
Sabine Lisicki, German tennis player ·
Mara Scherzinger, German actress ·
Brandon Jennings, American basketball player ·
Kevin Norwood, American football player ·
Sui He, Chinese model ·
A.J. Applegate, American pornographic
actress ·
Dani Daniels, American pornographic actress ·
September 24 – Pia Wurtzbach, German-Filipina actress,
model, and Miss Universe 2015 beauty
pageant titleholder ·
September 25 – Jordan Gavaris, Canadian actor ·
Emma Rigby, British actress ·
Kieran Gibbs, English footballer ·
Robi Domingo, Filipino actor ·
Park Tae-hwan, South Korean swimmer ·
Rumi Ōkubo, Japanese voice actress ·
September 29 – Theo Adams, British performance artist October[edit] ·
October 1 – Brie Larson, American actress ·
Janine Gutierrez, Filipino actress ·
Brad Peltz, American ex-professional ice
hockey defenceman ·
Dakota Johnson, American actress ·
Lil Mama, American rapper ·
Kimmie Meissner, American figure skater ·
Viktoria Rebensburg,
German alpine skier ·
Rich Homie Quan, American rapper ·
October 10 – Aimee Teegarden, American actress ·
Michelle Wie, American golf player ·
Tomoyuki Sugano, Japanese baseball pitcher ·
October 12 – Paulo Henrique Ganso,
Brazilian football player ·
October 13 – Skyler Page, American animator and voice
actor ·
October 14 – Mia Wasikowska, Australian actress ·
Dan Biggar, Welsh rugby union player ·
Jack Salvatore Jr.,
American actor ·
October 17 – Sophie Luck, Australian actress ·
October 19 – Janine Tugonon, Filipina beauty queen ·
October 20 – Jess Glynne, British singer ·
October 23 – Jonita Gandhi, Indo-Canadian singer. ·
Armin
Bačinović, Slovenian football midfielder ·
T'erea Brown, American track and field
athlete ·
Jack Colback, English footballer ·
B. J.
Daniels, American football quarterback ·
Cristian Gamboa, Costa Rican footballer ·
Shenae Grimes, Canadian actress ·
Eric Hosmer, American professional baseball
player ·
Felix Kjellberg, Swedish YouTube celebrity ·
Igor Pisanjuk, Norwegian footballer ·
Eliza Taylor, Australian actress ·
October 25 – Marina Keegan, American author and
journalist ·
October 28 – Camille Muffat, French swimmer (d. 2015) ·
October 30 – Nastia Liukin, American artistic gymnast and
Olympic gold medalist November[edit] ·
November 2 – Katelyn Tarver, American singer, songwriter
and actress ·
Paula DeAnda, Mexican-born American singer ·
Kim Taek-yong, South Korean professional
gamer (StarCraft, Starcraft
II) ·
Elliott Tittensor,
British actor ·
Luke Tittensor, British actor ·
Joyce Jonathan, French singer ·
November 5 – Andrew Boyce, English footballer ·
Jozy Altidore, American soccer player ·
Aaron Hernandez, American football player
(d. 2017) ·
November 8 – Giancarlo Stanton,
American baseball player. ·
November 9 – Gianluca Bezzina, Maltese doctor and singer ·
Taron Egerton, British actor ·
Adeele Sepp, Estonian actress ·
Adam Rippon, American figure skater ·
Reina Tanaka, Japanese rock singer, lead
singer of Japanese rock group, Lovendor and former member of pop
group Morning Musume ·
Emis Killa, Italian rapper ·
Jake Livermore, English footballer ·
November 15 – Jona Viray, Filipina singer ·
Tyga,
American rapper ·
Caitlynne Medrek, Canadian actress and voice
actress ·
Cody Linley, American actor ·
Sergei Polunin, Ukrainian ballet dancer ·
November 21 – Fabian Delph, English footballer ·
Candice Glover, American Idol Season 12 winner ·
Alden Ehrenreich, American actor ·
November 24 – Jordan Witzigreuter,
American singer-songwriter (The Ready Set) ·
November 25 – Tom Dice, Belgian singer-songwriter ·
November 26 – Angeline Quinto, Filipina singer and actress ·
Freddie Sears, English footballer ·
Loveli, Japanese model ·
Ayesha Gwilt, British actress ·
Claire Brookin, British darts player ·
Martin Hare, British handball player December[edit] ·
Cassie Steele, Canadian actress and singer ·
Robert Turbin, American football player ·
December 3 – Bette Franke, Dutch model ·
Garron DuPree, American musician ·
Nafessa Williams, American actress ·
Gregory Tyree Boyce,
American actor ·
Katy Kung, Hong Kong actress ·
Kwon Yuri, South Korean singer, member of
Korean group (SNSD) ·
December 7 – Nicholas Hoult, British actor ·
December 9 – Eric Bledsoe, American basketball player ·
December 10 – Marion Maréchal-Le
Pen, French politician ·
December 12 – Janelle Arthur, American Idol contestant ·
Katherine
Schwarzenegger, American author ·
Taylor Swift, American pop and country
singer ·
December 14 – Onew,
Korean singer, member of Korean group (SHINee) ·
December 15 – Nichole Bloom, American actress and model ·
December 18 – Ashley Benson, American actress ·
December 19 – Valdimar Bergstað,
Icelandic horse rider ·
December 21 – Tamannaah, Indian model and actress ·
Jordin Sparks, American singer ·
Logan Huffman, American actor ·
Yohan Blake, Jamaican athlete ·
Sora Tokui, Japanese voice actress, singer,
and manga artist ·
December 27 – Kateryna Lagno, Ukrainian chess player ·
Jessie Buckley, Irish actress and singer ·
Mackenzie Rosman, American actress ·
Salvador Sobral, Portuguese singer, Eurovision Song
Contest 2017 winner ·
Jane Levy, American actress ·
Kei Nishikori, Japanese tennis player ·
Left Brain, American rapper and music
producer (Odd Future) ·
December 30 – Ryan Sheckler, American skateboarder Deaths[edit] January[edit] Emperor Hirohito Alfonso,
Duke of Anjou and Cadiz ·
January 3 – Robert Banks,
American chemist (b. 1921) ·
D. R. Nanayakkara,
Sri Lanka actor (b. 1915) ·
Dvora Netzer, Israeli politician (b. 1897) ·
January 6 – Sir Edmund Leach, British anthropologist
(b. 1910) ·
Frank Adams, British mathematician (b. 1930) ·
Hirohito, Emperor of
Japan, one of the leaders of World War II (b. 1901) ·
January 8 – Kenneth McMillan,
American actor (b. 1932) ·
January 9 – Bill Terry, American baseball player
(b. 1898) ·
Hai Deng, abbot of Shaolin Temple (b. 1902) ·
Herbert
Morrison, American radio reporter (b. 1905) ·
Donald
Voorhees, American composer and musician (b. 1903) ·
Einar Andersson, Swedish opera singer
(b. 1909) ·
August Koern, Estonian statesman and
diplomat (b. 1900) ·
José Bustamante
y Rivero, Peruvian politician, diplomat and jurist, 33rd President of Peru (b. 1894) ·
January 13 – Joe Spinell, American actor (Maniac, The Last Horror Film)
(b. 1936) ·
Robert B. Anderson,
American administrator and businessman (b. 1910) ·
Robert Lembke, German television presenter
and game show host (b. 1913) ·
Prem Nazir, Indian actor (b. 1926) ·
Trey Wilson, American actor (b. 1948) ·
January 17 – Óscar Vargas Prieto,
Peruvian soldier and politician, 111th Prime Minister of
Peru (b. 1917) ·
January 18 – Bruce Chatwin, British author (b. 1940) ·
January 19 – Norma Varden, English actress (b. 1898) ·
Beatrice Lillie, Canadian actress (b. 1894) ·
Józef Cyrankiewicz,
Polish communist politician, 2-time Prime Minister
of Poland and 15th President of Poland (b. 1911) ·
Muharrem Bajraktari,
Albanian Muslim tribal leader, political and
military figure (b. 1896) ·
Carl Furillo, American baseball player
(b. 1922) ·
Billy Tipton, American musician (b. 1914) ·
January 23 – Salvador Dalí, Spanish artist (b. 1904) ·
January 24 – Ted Bundy, American serial killer (executed)
(b. 1946) ·
Bayani Casimiro, Filipino dancer and actor
(b. 1918) ·
Thomas Sopwith, British aviation pioneer and
yachtsman (b. 1888) ·
Mikhail Chulaki, Soviet composer (b. 1908) ·
Halina Konopacka, Polish Olympic athlete
(b. 1900) ·
January 30 – Alfonso,
Duke of Anjou and Cádiz (b. 1936) ·
January 31 – Fernando
Gonçalves Namora, Portuguese writer and doctor (b. 1919) February[edit] ·
February 1 – Elaine de Kooning,
American artist (b. 1919) ·
Yuri Bogatyryov, Soviet actor (b. 1947) ·
Ondrej Nepela, Slovakian figure skater
(b. 1951) ·
Betty Farrington, American actress (b. 1898) ·
John Cassavetes, American actor and author
(b. 1929) ·
Glenna Collett-Vare,
American golfer (b. 1903) ·
Barbara W. Tuchman,
American historian (b. 1912) ·
Netty Herawaty, Indonesian actress (b. 1930) ·
Ron Field, American choreographer (b. 1934) ·
February 7 – Prince
Wilhelm Victor of Prussia (b. 1919) ·
February 8 – Lael Rodrigues, Brazilian filmmaker
(b. 1951) ·
February 9 – Osamu Tezuka, Japanese artist (b. 1928) ·
Shakhbut
bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Sheikh ruler of Abu Dhabi (b. 1905) ·
T. E. B. Clarke, British screenwriter
(b. 1907) ·
George O'Hanlon, American actor and director
(b. 1912) ·
Claude Dupuy,
French Roman Catholic priest
and bishop (b. 1901) ·
Princess
Eugénie of Greece and Denmark (b. 1910) ·
James Bond,
American ornithologist (b. 1900) ·
Vincent Crane, British musician (Atomic Rooster) (b. 1943) ·
February 16 – Princess
Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg (b. 1899) ·
Lefty Gomez, Mexican-born American baseball
player (New York Yankees)
and member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1908) ·
Joe Raposo, American musician, composer (Sesame Street, The Electric Company)
(b. 1937) ·
February 18 – John Bailey,
British actor (b. 1912) ·
February 20 – Robert Dorning, British actor (b. 1913) ·
Sándor Márai,
Hungarian writer and journalist (b. 1900) ·
Moshe Unna, Israeli politician (b. 1902) ·
February 22 – Moisés da Costa
Amaral, East Timor politician (b. 1938) ·
February 23 – José Romão Martenetz,
Soviet Roman Catholic monk
and servant of God (b. 1903) ·
February 24 – Sparky Adams, American baseball player
(b. 1894) ·
February 26 – Roy Eldridge, American musician (b. 1911) ·
Paul Oswald Ahnert,
German astronomer (b. 1897) ·
Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, recipient
of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903) March[edit] ·
March 2 – Liviu Cornel
Babeș, Romanian electrician and painter (b. 1943) ·
March 3 – Kenneth Hegan, English amateur footballer,
professional soldier (b. 1901) ·
March 4 – Salvatore Dell'Isola,
Italian conductor (b. 1901) ·
March 6 – Harry Andrews, British actor (b. 1911) ·
March 8 ·
Robert Lacoste, French politician (b. 1898) ·
Carl Stuart Hamblen,
American musician (b. 1908) ·
March 9 – Robert Mapplethorpe,
American activist, artist and photographer (b. 1946) ·
March 10 – Maurizio Merli, Italian actor (b. 1940) ·
March 11 – James Kee, American politician (b. 1917) ·
March 12 ·
Maurice Evans,
British actor (b. 1901) ·
Thaddeus B. Hurd, American architect and
historian (b. 1903) ·
March 14 ·
Edward Abbey, American author and
environmentalist (b. 1927) ·
Stephen D.
Bechtel, Sr., American businessman (b. 1900) ·
Zita of
Bourbon-Parma, Queen consort of Hungary and Empress consort of
Austria (b. 1892) ·
March 16 ·
Jesús María de
Leizaola, Spanish politician (b. 1896) ·
George Lynn,
American composer and conductor (b. 1915) ·
March 17 – Merritt Butrick, American actor (b. 1959) ·
March 19 ·
Abe Akira, Japanese author (b. 1934) ·
Alan Civil, English-born French horn player
(b. 1929) ·
March 21 – Milton Frome, American actor (b. 1909) ·
March 25 – Sa`id Al-Mufti, Jordanian political figure,
9th Prime Minister
of Jordan (b. 1898) ·
March 27 ·
May Allison, American actress (b. 1890) ·
Malcolm Cowley, American author (b. 1898) ·
Jack Starrett, American actor and director
(b. 1936) ·
March 29 ·
Bernard Blier, French actor (b. 1916) ·
Aleksandr Prokopenko,
Soviet footballer (b. 1953) ·
March 31 – Piotr Belousov, Soviet painter (b. 1912) April[edit] ·
April 1 ·
Richard Austin,
American conductor (b. 1903) ·
George Robledo, Chilean soccer player (b. 1926) ·
April 3 ·
Mustafa Çağatay,
Turkish-Cypriot politician, 3rd Prime
Minister of Northern Cyprus (Turkish) (b. 1937) ·
Vishnu Sahay, Indian politician and civil
servant (b. 1901) ·
April 6 – Zofia Batycka, Polish actress and model
(b. 1907) ·
April 7 – Cheng Nan-jung, supporter of Taiwan
independence movement (b. 1947) ·
April 8 – Maria Prilezhayeva,
Russian author (b. 1903) ·
April 9 ·
Moshe Ziffer, Israeli sculptor (b. 1902) ·
Gerald Flood, British actor (b. 1927) ·
Sugar Ray Robinson,
American professional boxer (b. 1921) ·
April 12 ·
Abbie Hoffman, American political activist
(b. 1936) ·
Charles Joy,
British engineer and designer (b. 1911) ·
April 13 ·
Patriarch Paul II Cheikho (b. 1906) ·
António Ferreira
Gomes, Portuguese Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1906) ·
April 15 ·
Carol Graham,
British Anglican missionary (b. 1898) ·
Bernard-Marie Koltès,
French playwright (b. 1948) ·
Hu Yaobang, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b. 1915) ·
April 16 – Jocko Conlan, American baseball player and
umpire (b. 1899) ·
April 19 ·
Dame Daphne du Maurier,
British writer (b. 1907) ·
Harold
Isherwood, British Anglican bishop (b. 1907) ·
April 21 ·
Princess Deokhye of Korea (b. 1912) ·
James Kirkwood, Jr.,
American playwright (b. 1924) ·
April 22 – Emilio Segrè, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1905) ·
April 23 ·
Hamani Diori, Nigerien politician, 1st President of Niger (b. 1916) ·
Hu Die, Chinese actress (b. 1907) ·
April 24 ·
Charles Grant,
British Roman Catholic prelate
(b. 1906) ·
Edgar Sanabria, Venezuelan lawyer, diplomat,
and politician, Interim President of
Venezuela (b. 1911) ·
April 25 – George Coulouris, British actor (b. 1903) ·
April 26 – Lucille Ball, American actress, comedian and
entertainer (b. 1911)j ·
April 27 ·
Eriberto Arroyo Mío,
Peruvian politician (b. 1943) ·
Konosuke Matsushita,
Japanese industrialist (b. 1894) ·
April 30 ·
Sergio Leone, Italian film director
(b. 1929) ·
Guy Williams,
Italian-born American actor (b. 1924) May[edit] ·
May 1 ·
Francisco
do Borja Pereira do Amaral, Brazilian Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1898) ·
Edward Ochab, Polish activist and
politician, 13th President of Poland (b. 1906) ·
May 2 – Giuseppe Siri, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1906) ·
May 3 ·
Zdeněk Frolík,
Czechoslovak mathematician (b. 1933) ·
Christine Jorgensen,
Norwegian actress, singer and writer (b. 1926) ·
May 4 – Chalam, Indian actor (b. 1929) ·
May 6 – Adolfo Constanzo, Cuban-born American serial
killer (b. 1962) ·
May 9 – Keith Whitley, American singer (b. 1955) ·
May 10 – Woody Shaw, American jazz trumpeter
(b. 1944) ·
May 11 – Xiao Wangdong, Chinese general and Minister
of Culture (b. 1910) ·
May 15 – Johnny Green, American songwriter (b. 1908) ·
May 16 – Leila Kasra, Iranian-born American poet
(b. 1939) ·
May 17 – Walter Gross,
German actor (b. 1904) ·
May 19 ·
Anton Diffring, German actor (b. 1916) ·
Abel Herzberg, Dutch-born Israeli lawyer and
writer (b. 1893) ·
Robert Webber, American actor (b. 1924) ·
May 20 ·
Peter Evans,
American actor (b. 1950) ·
John Hicks, British economist, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1904) ·
Gilda Radner, American comedian and actress
(b. 1946) ·
May 26 ·
Eugene James Keogh, U.S. House
of Representatives from New York (b. 1907) ·
Don Revie, English footballer and manager
(b. 1927) ·
May 29 ·
John Cipollina, American musician (Quicksilver
Messenger Service) (b. 1943) ·
Giuseppe Patanè,
Italian conductor (b. 1932) ·
May 30 – James Harry Lacey,
British World War II RAF
Fighter pilot (b. 1917) ·
May 31 ·
Edward Hubbard, British architectural
historian, collaborator of the Buildings of
England (b. 1937) ·
C. L. R. James, Trinidadian journalist and
writer (b. 1901) ·
Prince Friedrich Ferdinand of
Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (b. 1913) June[edit] Prince
Vasili Alexandrovich of Russia ·
June 3 ·
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini,
Iranian philosopher, politician, revolutionary and Shia Muslim religious leader, 1st Supreme Leader of
Iran (b. 1902) ·
John McCauley, RAAF Senior Commander
(b. 1899) ·
June 4 ·
Dik Browne, American cartoonist (b. 1917) ·
Václav Kašlík,
Czech composer (b. 1917) ·
June 7 – Don the Beachcomber,
American restaurateur (b. 1907) ·
June 8 – Albert Spaggiari, French criminal (b. 1932) ·
June 9 ·
George Beadle, American geneticist,
recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903) ·
Karl Skytte, Danish politician (b. 1908) ·
José López Rega,
Argentine politician (b. 1916) ·
June 10 – Richard Quine, American actor (b. 1920) ·
June 12 – Princess Niloufer (b. 1916) ·
June 13 – Fran Allison, Australian actress (b. 1907) ·
June 14 – Joseph Malula, Congolese Roman Catholic archbishop and cardinal
(b. 1917) ·
June 15 ·
Ray McAnally, Irish actor (b. 1926) ·
Victor French, American actor and director
(b. 1934) ·
Judy Johnson, American baseball player
(b. 1899) ·
Lưu
Hữu Phước, Vietnamese composer (b. 1921) ·
June 17 – John Matuszak, American football player and
actor (b. 1950) ·
June 20 – Dieter Aderhold, German cathedratic and
politician (b. 1939) ·
June 22 ·
Lee Calhoun, American Olympic athlete
(b. 1933) ·
Menahem Stern, Israeli historian (b. 1925) ·
June 23 ·
Werner Best, German Nazi official (b. 1903) ·
Prince
Vasili Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1907) ·
June 24 ·
Hibari Misora, Japanese singer (b. 1937) ·
Albennie Jones, American urban and jazz
musician (b. 1914) ·
June 26 ·
Howard Charles Green,
Canadian politician, former Foreign secretary (b. 1895) ·
Walter Ralston
Martin, American minister (b. 1928) ·
June 27 ·
Sir Alfred Ayer, British philosopher
(b. 1910) ·
Jack Buetel, American actor (b. 1915) ·
Michele Lupo, Italian film director
(b. 1932) ·
June 28 – Joris Ivens, Dutch filmmaker (b. 1898) ·
June 30 – Hilmar Baunsgaard,
Danish politician and 34th Prime Minister
of Denmark (b. 1920) July[edit] ·
July 2 ·
Andrei Gromyko, Soviet politician and
diplomat, former Foreign Minister (b. 1909) ·
Franklin Schaffner,
American film director (b. 1920) ·
Ben Wright,
British actor in radio, film and television (b. 1915) ·
July 3 – Jim Backus, American actor (b. 1913) ·
July 4 ·
Jack Haig,
British actor (b. 1913) ·
Vic Perrin, American voice actor (b. 1916) ·
Win Maung, 3rd President of Myanmar (b. 1916) ·
Nelson Sullivan American videographer
(b. 1948) ·
July 5 – Berthold Wolpe, German-born British
calligrapher, typographer and illustrator (b. 1905) ·
July 6 – János Kádár,
Hungarian politician and communist leader, 46th Prime Minister
of Hungary (b. 1912) ·
July 9 – Andrex, French actor (b. 1907) ·
July 10 – Mel Blanc, American voice actor (b. 1908) ·
July 11 – Laurence Olivier, English stage and screen
actor and director (b. 1907) ·
July 12 ·
Princess Franziska of
Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (b. 1897) ·
Prince Wolfgang
of Hesse (b. 1896) ·
July 14 – José María
García Lahiguera, Spanish Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1903) ·
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, American baseball player
(b. 1954) ·
Rebecca Schaeffer,
American actress (b. 1967) ·
July 19 – Kazimierz Sabbat, 2-time Prime Minister
of Poland and 15th President of Poland (b. 1913) ·
July 20 ·
Juan Carlos
Altavista, Argentine actor (b. 1929) ·
Forrest H. Anderson,
American politician (b. 1913) ·
Mary Treen, American film actress (b. 1907) ·
July 22 – Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (b. 1935) ·
July 23 ·
Donald Barthelme, American writer (b. 1931) ·
Archduchess
Charlotte of Austria (b. 1921) ·
Michael Sundin, English television presenter
(b. 1961) ·
July 24 – Ernie Morrison, American actor (b. 1912) ·
July 29 – Nancy Andrews,
American actress (b. 1920) ·
July 30 – Lane Frost, American bull rider (b. 1963) August[edit] ·
August 1 – John Ogdon, British pianist (b. 1937) ·
August 4 ·
Maurice Colbourne,
British actor (b. 1939) ·
Franziska Liebing,
Swedish actress (b. 1901) ·
August 7 ·
Mickey Leland, U.S. House
of Representatives from Texas (b. 1944) ·
Gunnar Mattsson, Swedish-born Finnish writer
and journalist (b. 1937) ·
August 8 – Bobby Oxspring, British flying ace, one
of The Few (b. 1919) ·
August 9 ·
Richard
Alexander, American actor (b. 1902) ·
Karl Kvaran, Icelandic painter (b. 1924) ·
August 11 – George Andreasen, American orthodonist and
inventor (b. 1934) ·
August 12 – William Shockley, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1910) ·
Hugo del Carril, Argentine film actor, film
director and tango singer (b. 1912) ·
Tim Richmond, American race car driver
(b. 1955) ·
August 14 – Robert Bernard
Anderson, American political figure (b. 1910) ·
Minoru Genda, Japanese aviator, naval
officer and politician (b. 1904) ·
Dorothea Leighton,
American social psychiatrist, founded the field of medical anthropology
(b. 1908) ·
Jean-Hilaire Aubame,
French-born Gabonese politician (b. 1912) ·
Amanda Blake, American actress (b. 1929) ·
August 17 – Lin Tie, Chinese politician, head of Hebei province (b. 1904) ·
August 18 – Luis Carlos Galan,
Colombian politician (b. 1943) ·
George Adamson, Indian-born American
conservationist (b. 1906) ·
Joseph LaShelle, American cinematographer
(b. 1900) ·
John Clyne, Canadian jurist (b. 1902) ·
Diana Vreeland, American fashion editor
(b. 1929) ·
Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party (b. 1942) ·
August 23 – R. D. Laing, British psychiatrist (b. 1927) ·
August 26 – Irving Stone, American writer (b. 1903) ·
August 27 – Luiz Luz, Brazilian footballer (b. 1909) ·
Pua Kealoha, American Olympic swimmer
(b. 1902) ·
Sir Peter Scott, British naturalist, artist
and explorer (b. 1909) ·
Joe Collins, American baseball player
(b. 1922) ·
Joe De Santis, American actor and sculptor
(b. 1909) September[edit] ·
September 1 – A. Bartlett Giamatti,
American President of Yale University and MLB Commissioner (b. 1938) ·
Edmund
Peiris, Sri Lanka Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1897) ·
Georges Simenon, Belgian writer (b. 1903) ·
Ronald Syme, New Zealand-born classicist and
historian (b. 1903) ·
Les
Allen, Australian footballer (b. 1911) ·
William Mann,
British music critic (b. 1924) ·
John Joseph Cassata,
American Roman Catholic bishop
(b. 1908) ·
Ann George, British actress (b. 1903) ·
Paul Alfred Weiss,
Austrian biologist (b. 1898) ·
September 13 – Charles H. Russell,
American politician, 20th Governor of Nevada (b. 1903) ·
September 14 – Dámaso Pérez Prado,
Cuban musician (b. 1916) ·
September 15 – Robert Penn Warren,
American writer (b. 1905) ·
Hugh Quincy
Alexander, American politician (b. 1911) ·
Sir Richard Hull, British field marshal
(b. 1907) ·
Steven Stayner, American kidnapping victim
(b. 1965) ·
September 22 – Irving Berlin, American composer (b. 1888) ·
September 23 – Bradley Kincaid, American singer (b. 1894) ·
September 28 – Ferdinand Marcos, Filipino dictator,
politician and statesman, 10th President of
the Philippines (b. 1917) ·
Horace Alexander, British writer, pacifist
and ornithologist (b. 1889) ·
Virgil Thomson, American composer (b. 1896) ·
Huỳnh
Tấn Phát, Vietnamese politician, 16th Prime
Minister of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) (b. 1913) October[edit] ·
Paola Barbara, Italian actress (b. 1912) ·
Vittorio Caprioli,
Italian actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1921) ·
Jesús
Emilio Jaramillo Monsalve, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate and blessed
(assassinated) (b. 1916) ·
October 4 – Graham Chapman, British comedian (b. 1941) ·
October 6 – Bette Davis, American actress (b. 1908) ·
October 9 – Penny Lernoux, American journalist and
author (b. 1940) ·
M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist
(b. 1903) ·
Paul Shenar, American actor (b. 1936) ·
October 12 – Jay Ward, American animator, creator
of Rocky and Bullwinkle, Dudley Do-Right, etc. (b. 1920) ·
Scott O'Dell, American children's writer and
winner of 5 Newbery Awards (b. 1898) ·
Cornel Wilde, American actor (b. 1915) ·
Dahn Ben-Amotz, Israeli journalist and
author (b. 1924) ·
Sir Anthony Quayle, British actor (b. 1913) ·
Manuel Gregorio
Acosta, Mexican-born American painter (b. 1921) ·
Ewan MacColl, British actor, musician and
political activist (b. 1915) ·
Jacob Wetterling, American kidnapping victim
(b. 1978) ·
Roland Winters, American actor (b. 1904) ·
October 24 – Gopal Gurunath
Bewoor, Indian military officer (b. 1916) ·
October 25 – Mary McCarthy,
American writer (b. 1912) ·
October 26 – Charles J. Pedersen,
American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1904) ·
Henry Hall,
British bandleader (b. 1898) ·
Yuliya Solntseva, Soviet actress (b. 1901) ·
October 30 – Pedro Vargas, Mexican singer and actor
(b. 1904) ·
Georgi Partsalev, Bulgarian theatre and film
actor (b. 1925) ·
Roger Scott, British radio disk jockey
(b. 1943) November[edit] Édouard Candeveau,
1924 Olympic gold medalist ·
November 1 – Sadie
Tanner Mossell Alexander, American civil rights activist (b. 1898) ·
November 2 – Andrée Brabant,
French actress (b. 1901) ·
November 3 – Timoci Bavadra, Fijian physician and
politician, 2nd Prime Minister of
Fiji (b. 1934) ·
Vladimir Horowitz,
Russian pianist (b. 1903) ·
Barry Sadler, American soldier and
singer-songwriter (b. 1940) ·
November 6 – Little
Sister Magdeleine of Jesus, French Roman Catholic religious sister and
missionary (b. 1898) ·
November 11 – Kenneth
MacLean Glazier Sr., Canadian minister and librarian (b. 1912) ·
November 12 – Édouard Candeveau,
Swiss Olympic rower (b. 1898) ·
Victor Davis, Canadian Olympic swimmer
(b. 1964) ·
Franz
Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein (b. 1906) ·
Jean-Claude Malepart,
Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1938) ·
Murder
of Three Salvadorian Jesuit priests: ·
Ignacio Ellacuría,
Jesuit priest, theologian and saint (b. 1930) ·
Segundo Montes, Jesuit priest, theologian
and saint (b. 1933) ·
Ignacio Martín-Baró,
Jesuit priest, theologian and saint (b. 1942) ·
Nancy Drexel, American actress (b. 1910) ·
Grant Adcox, American race car driver
(b. 1950) ·
Lynn Bari, American actress (b. 1913) ·
Leonardo Sciascia,
Italian writer (b. 1921) ·
C. C. Beck, American cartoonist (b. 1910) ·
René Moawad, Lebanese lawyer and politician,
13th President of Lebanon (assassinated)
(b. 1925) ·
November 23 – Mariko Shiga, Japanese voice actress
(b. 1969) ·
November 24 – Abdullah Yusuf Azzam,
Palestine Sunni Islamic scholar
and theologian (b. 1941) ·
November 25 – George Cakobau, Governor-General
of Fiji (b. 1912) ·
November 26 – Ahmed Abdallah, Comorian politician,
1st President of Comoros (assassinated)
(b. 1919) ·
November 27 – Carlos Arias Navarro,
Spanish politician, 71st Prime Minister of
Spain (b. 1908) ·
November 28 – Ernesto Civardi, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1906) ·
A. Maruthakasi, Indian poet and lyricist
(b. 1920) ·
Gubby Allen, English cricketer (b. 1902) ·
Giuseppe Antonini,
Italian football player (b. 1914) ·
Mario Colli, Italian actor (b. 1915) ·
Ahmadou Ahidjo, Cameroonian politician,
1st Prime Minister
of Cameroon and President of
Cameroon (b. 1924) ·
Hassan Fathy, Egyptian architect (b. 1900) December[edit] ·
December 1 – Alvin Ailey, American dancer and
choreographer (b. 1931) ·
December 2 – Ray Morehart, American baseball player
(b. 1899) ·
Sourou-Migan Apithy,
Beninese political figure, 2nd President of Dahomey (b. 1913) ·
Boris
Stepanovich Lukoshkov, Soviet painter (b. 1922) ·
Fernando Martín,
Spanish basketball player (car accident) (b. 1962) ·
December 4 – Frederick Elwyn
Jones, British barrister and Labour politician (b. 1909) ·
December 5 – John Pritchard,
British conductor (b. 1921) ·
Frances Bavier, American actress (b. 1902) ·
Sammy Fain, American composer (b. 1902) ·
Marc Lépine, Canadian mass murderer
(b. 1964) ·
John Payne,
American actor (b. 1912) ·
December 7 – Haystacks Calhoun,
American professional wrestler (b. 1934) ·
December 8 – Hans Hartung, German-born French painter
(b. 1904) ·
Carlos Almaraz, Mexican-born American artist
(b. 1941) ·
Lindsay Crosby, American singer and actor
(b. 1938) ·
Jock Mahoney, American actor (b. 1919) ·
Andrei Sakharov, Soviet physicist and
activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (declined)
(b. 1921) ·
José Gonzalo
Rodríguez Gacha, Colombian drug lord and criminal (b. 1947) ·
Edward Underdown, British stage and film
veteran (b. 1908) ·
Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (b. 1930) ·
Aileen Pringle, American actress (b. 1895) ·
December 16 – Lee Van Cleef, American actor (b. 1925) ·
December 17 – Albert C.
Wedemeyer, American general (b. 1897) ·
María Teresa
Babín Cortés, Puerto Rican educator, critic and essayist (b. 1910) ·
Kirill Mazurov, Soviet politician (b. 1914) ·
Herbert Blaize, Grenadian politician,
6th Prime Minister
of Grenada (b. 1918) ·
December 20 – Kurt Böhme, German bass (b. 1908) ·
Ján Cikker, Slovak composer (b. 1911) ·
Rotimi Fani-Kayode,
Nigerian-born British photographer, co-founder Autograph ABP (b. 1955) ·
Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1906) ·
Vasile Milea, Romanian military officer and
politician, minister of Defense (suicide) (b. 1927) ·
December 23 – Peter Bennett,
British actor (b. 1917) ·
Nicolae
Ceaușescu, Romanian politician, dictator and Communist Party
head, 1st President of Romania (executed)
(b. 1918) ·
Elena Ceaușescu,
wife of Nicolae Ceaușescu and Deputy Prime Minister of Romania
(executed) (b. 1919) ·
Billy Martin, American baseball player and
manager (b. 1928) ·
December 26 – Lennox Berkeley, English composer (b. 1903) ·
Brian Coburn,
British actor (b. 1936) ·
Hermann Oberth, Austro-Hungarian-born German
engineer, physicist and scientist (b. 1894) ·
Yasuji Miyazaki, Japanese Olympic swimmer
(b. 1916) ·
Madoline Thomas, Welsh actress (b. 1890) ·
Gerhard Schröder,
German politician (b. 1910) ·
Sir Ignatius Kilage, 4th Governor-General
of Papua New Guinea (b. 1941) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
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, 14th Dalai Lama ·
Cage
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