1989

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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, they heralded the beginning of the post–Cold War period.

It was the year of the first Brazilian presidential elections in 29 years, since the end of the military government in 1985 which 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.

Events

January

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, Cuban troops begin withdrawing from Angola.
• January 11
  • 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.
• January 15
  • 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.
• January 18
  • 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.

March

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.
  • 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

The death of Hu Yaobang sparks 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]

June

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.
• June 3
  • 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]
• June 4
  • 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 600 miles (970 km) 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.

August

Voyager 2 at Neptune

• 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.
• August 15
  • 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.
• August 19
  • 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.
• August 20
  • 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]
• August 23
  • 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.
• August 24
  • 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.

October

The Phillips Disaster

• 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]
• October 3
  • 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.
• October 7
  • 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.
• October 9
  • 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.
• October 13
  • Friday the 13th mini-crash: The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges 190.58 points, or 6.91 percent, to close at 2,569.26, most likely after the junk bond market collapses.
  • 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 M_w 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.
• October 18
  • The Communist leader of East Germany, Erich Honecker, is forced to step down as leader of the country after a series of health problems, 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.
• October 19
  • 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 sustainability one of the Commonwealth's main priorities.
• October 23
  • The Hungarian Republic is officially declared by President Mátyás Szűrös (replacing the Hungarian People's Republic), 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]
• October 31
  • 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

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]
• November 1
  • 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.
• November 7
  • Douglas Wilder wins the Virginia gubnatorial 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.
• November 9
  • 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).
• November 10
  • After 45 years of Communist rule in Bulgaria, Bulgarian Communist Party leader Todor Zhivkov is replaced by Foreign Minister Petar Mladenov, who changes the party's name to the Bulgarian Socialist Party.
  • Gaby Kennard becomes the first Australian woman to fly 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]
• November 15
  • 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.
• November 16
  • 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

Flames engulf a building following the United States invasion of Panama.

• December 1
  • 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.
• December 2
  • 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.
• December 3
  • 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.
• December 6
  • 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.
• December 7
  • 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.
• December 10
  • 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.
• December 17
  • 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.
• December 22
  • 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.
• December 25
  • 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.
• December 29
  • 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]

Births

January

Kōhei Uchimura

James Durbin

Nina Dobrev

Emily Meade

Beau Mirchoff

Kim Bùi

Hannah Arterton

Khleo Thomas

• January 1
  • Adèle Haenel, French actress
  • Edita Vilkevičiūtė, Lithuanian model
• January 2 – Kaitlin Howell, Canadian actress
• January 3
  • Alex D. Linz, American actor
  • Anya Kop, American fashion model
  • Kōhei Uchimura, Japanese gymnast
• January 4
  • Kariem Hussein, Swiss 400 metres hurdler
  • Labrinth, British urban and hip-hop musician
  • Sessilee Lopez, American model
  • Julius Yego, Kenian javelin thrower
• January 6
  • Andy Carroll, English footballer
  • James Durbin, American Idol contestant
  • Nicky Romero, Dutch DJ
• January 7
  • Emiliano Insúa, Argentine footballer
  • Khairul Fahmi Che Mat, Malaysian footballer
• January 8 – Steven Christopher Parker, American actor
• January 9
  • Michael Beasley, American basketball player
  • Nina Dobrev, Bulgarian-born Canadian actress
• January 10
  • Conor Dwyer, American Olympic swmmer
  • Emily Meade, American actress
  • Heo Sol-ji, South Korean singer (EXID)
• January 11
  • 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
• January 15
  • 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
• January 19 – Yani Tseng, Taiwanese golfer
• January 20
  • Kim Bùi, German artistic gymnast
  • Nadia Di Cello, Argentine actress
• January 21
  • Katie Griffiths, British actress
  • Doğuş Balbay, American basketball player
  • Sergey Fesikov, Russian swimmer
  • Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Armenian footballer
• January 24
  • Calvin Goldspink, British actor
  • Gong Lijiao, Chinese shot putter
• January 25 – Mikako Tabe, Japanese stage and film actress
• January 26
  • Emily Hughes, American figure skater
  • Hannah Arterton, English actress
• January 27
  • Ricky van Wolfswinkel, Dutch footballer
  • Daisy Lowe, British fashion model
• January 28 – Bruno Massot, French-born German pair skater
• January 30
  • Jahvid Best, American NFL player
  • Lee Gun-woo, South Korean singer
  • Khleo Thomas, American actor and rapper

February

Jeremy Sumpter

Jesse Rath

Carly McKillip

Elizabeth Olsen

Corbin Bleu

Trace Cyrus

• February 3 – Ryne Sanborn, American actor
• February 4 – Larissa Ramos, Brazilian Miss Earth 2009 winner
• February 5
  • Cristine Reyes, Filipina actress
  • Jeremy Sumpter, American actor
• February 7
  • Louisa Lytton, British actress
  • Neil Taylor, Welsh footballer
  • Isaiah Thomas, American basketball player
• February 8 – Dani Harmer, British actress
• February 9
  • Wu Chia-ching, Taiwanese pool player
  • Maxime Dufour-Lapointe, Canadian freestyle skier
• February 11
  • Jesse Rath, Canadian actor
  • Lovi Poe, Filipina actress
• February 13
  • Carly McKillip, Canadian actress
  • Katie Volding, American actress
  • Rodrigo Possebon, Brazilian footballer
• February 15 – Bonnie Dennison, American actress
• February 16
  • Elizabeth Olsen, American actress
  • Zivanna Letisha Siregar, Indonesian model
• February 17
  • Rebecca Adlington, British swimmer
  • Chord Overstreet, American actor, singer and musician
• February 20
  • Jack Falahee, American actor
  • Mayu Kuroda, Japanese artistic gymnast
• February 21
  • Corbin Bleu, American actor and singer
  • Kristin Herrera, American actress
  • Scout Taylor-Compton, American actress
• February 23 – Chris Conte, American NFL player
• February 24
  • Kosta Koufos, Greek-born American basketball player
  • Trace Cyrus, American musician
• February 25
  • Kana Hanazawa, Japanese voice actress and singer
  • Lee Sang-hwa, South Korean speed skater
• February 26 – Anastassiya Bannova, Kazakh archer
• February 27
  • Kelly Breeding, American singer
  • Stephen Kiprotich, Ugandan marathoner
  • Stefano Langone, American singer
  • Lloyd Rigby, English footballer
• February 28 – Zhang Liyin, Chinese singer

March

Nathalie Emmanuel

Erin Heatherton

Jake Lloyd

Gerald Anderson

Anton Yelchin

Tyler Clary

Pierre Niney

Mason Musso

Lily Collins

Aly Michalka

• 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

Lily James

Aysel Teymurzadeh

Luke Bracey

• 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

Katinka Hosszú

Dániel Gyurta

Chris Brown

Nyle DiMarco

Shane van Gisbergen

Prince Royce

Alexandra Park

Alexey Negodaylo

Riley Keough

• 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

Steve Smith

Lisa Tucker

Lucy Hale

Renee Olstead

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

Matthew Lewis

• 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

David Henrie

Phoebe Tonkin

Gareth Bale

Rory Culkin

Daniel Radcliffe

Zelda Williams

• 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

Jessica Mauboy

Brenton Thwaites

Joe Jonas

Carlos Pena Jr.

Hayden Panettiere

Bebe Rexha

• August 1
  • Tiffany Hwang, American-born Korean singer, member of Korean group (SNSD)
  • Madison Bumgarner, American baseball player
  • Tomoka Kurokawa, Japanese actress
• 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
• August 10
  • Ben Sahar, Israeli footballer
  • Sam Gagner, Canadian ice hockey player
  • Brenton Thwaites, Australian actor
• August 11
  • Emma Wu, Taiwanese singer and actress (Hey Girl)
  • Junior Heffernan, Irish cyclist and triathlete (d. 2013)
  • Sebastian Huke, German footballer
• August 14
  • Kyle Turris, Canadian ice hockey player
  • Ander Herrera, Spanish professional footballer
• August 15
  • 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
• August 21
  • 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
• August 27
  • Daniel Tovar, Mexican actor
  • Juliana Cannarozzo, American figure skater
• August 28
  • Cassadee Pope, American singer-songwriter
  • Valtteri Bottas, Formula One driver
• August 30 – Bebe Rexha, American singer-songwriter

September

Avicii

Logan Henderson

Steliana Nistor

Jason Derulo

Pia Wurtzbach

• September 1
  • Bill Kaulitz, German singer (Tokio Hotel)
  • Jefferson Montero, Ecuadorian footballer
  • Daniel Sturridge, English footballer
• September 2
  • 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
• September 8
  • Avicii, Swedish DJ, remixer, and record producer (d. 2018)
  • Sebastián Francini, Argentine actor.
• September 9 – Sean Malto, American professional skateboarder
• September 12
  • Freddie Freeman, American baseball player
  • Elyse Hopfner-Hibbs, Canadian artistic gymnast
  • Andrew Luck, American football player
• September 13
  • Jon Mannah, Australian rugby league player (d. 2013)
  • Thomas Müller, German football player
• September 14
  • 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
• September 21
  • Jason Derulo, American urban singer, actor
  • Emma Watkins, Australian Entertainer, first female lead member of The Wiggles since 2013
• September 22
  • Hyoyeon Kim, Korean singer, member of Korean group (SNSD)
  • Sabine Lisicki, German tennis player
• September 23
  • 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
• September 26
  • Emma Rigby, British actress
  • Kieran Gibbs, English footballer
• September 27
  • Robi Domingo, Filipino actor
  • Park Tae-hwan, South Korean swimmer
  • Rumi Ōkubo, Japanese voice actress
• September 29 – Theo Adams, British performance artist

October

Brie Larson

Janine Gutierrez

Dakota Johnson

Kimmie Meissner

Aimee Teegarden

Mia Wasikowska

Eliza Taylor

• October 1 – Brie Larson, American actress
• October 2
  • Janine Gutierrez, Filipino actress
  • Brad Peltz, American ex-professional ice hockey defenceman
• October 4
  • 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
• October 11
  • 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
• October 16
  • 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.
• October 24
  • 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

Adam Rippon

Taron Egerton

Cody Linley

Candice Glover

• November 2 – Katelyn Tarver, American singer, songwriter and actress
• November 3
  • 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
• November 6
  • 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
• November 10
  • Taron Egerton, British actor
  • Adeele Sepp, Estonian actress
• November 11
  • 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
• November 14
  • Emis Killa, Italian rapper
  • Jake Livermore, English footballer
• November 15 – Jona Viray, Filipina singer
• November 19
  • Tyga, American rapper
  • Caitlynne Medrek, Canadian actress and voice actress
• November 20
  • Cody Linley, American actor
  • Sergei Polunin, Ukrainian ballet dancer
• November 21 – Fabian Delph, English footballer
• November 22
  • 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
• November 27
  • Freddie Sears, English footballer
  • Loveli, Japanese model
• November 28
  • Ayesha Gwilt, British actress
  • Claire Brookin, British darts player
  • Martin Hare, British handball player

December

Nicholas Hoult

Taylor Swift

Ashley Benson

Salvador Sobral

• December 2
  • Cassie Steele, Canadian actress and singer
  • Robert Turbin, American football player
• December 3 – Bette Franke, Dutch model
• December 4
  • Garron DuPree, American musician
  • Nafessa Williams, American actress
• December 5
  • 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
• December 13
  • 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
• December 22
  • Jordin Sparks, American singer
  • Logan Huffman, American actor
• December 26
  • Yohan Blake, Jamaican athlete
  • Sora Tokui, Japanese voice actress, singer, and manga artist
• December 27 – Kateryna Lagno, Ukrainian chess player
• December 28
  • Jessie Buckley, Irish actress and singer
  • Mackenzie Rosman, American actress
  • Salvador Sobral, Portuguese singer, Eurovision Song Contest 2017 winner
• December 29
  • 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

January

Emperor Hirohito

José Bustamante y Rivero

Józef Cyrankiewicz

Muharrem Bajraktari

Salvador Dalí

Ted Bundy

Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cadiz

• January 3 – Robert Banks, American chemist (b. 1921)
• January 4
  • D. R. Nanayakkara, Sri Lanka actor (b. 1915)
  • Dvora Netzer, Israeli politician (b. 1897)
• January 6 – Sir Edmund Leach, British anthropologist (b. 1910)
• January 7
  • 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)
• January 10
  • Hai Deng, abbot of Shaolin Temple (b. 1902)
  • Herbert Morrison, American radio reporter (b. 1905)
  • Donald Voorhees, American composer and musician (b. 1903)
• January 11
  • 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)
• January 14
  • Robert B. Anderson, American administrator and businessman (b. 1910)
  • Robert Lembke, German television presenter and game show host (b. 1913)
• January 16
  • 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)
• January 20
  • Beatrice Lillie, Canadian actress (b. 1894)
  • Józef Cyrankiewicz, Polish communist politician, 2-time Prime Minister of Poland and 15th President of Poland (b. 1911)
• January 21
  • 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)
• January 27
  • Bayani Casimiro, Filipino dancer and actor (b. 1918)
  • Thomas Sopwith, British aviation pioneer and yachtsman (b. 1888)
• January 28
  • 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

Osamu Tezuka

Shakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan

• February 1 – Elaine de Kooning, American artist (b. 1919)
• February 2
  • Yuri Bogatyryov, Soviet actor (b. 1947)
  • Ondrej Nepela, Slovakian figure skater (b. 1951)
• February 3
  • Betty Farrington, American actress (b. 1898)
  • John Cassavetes, American actor and author (b. 1929)
  • Glenna Collett-Vare, American golfer (b. 1903)
• February 6
  • 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)
• February 11
  • 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)
• February 13
  • Claude Dupuy, French Roman Catholic priest and bishop (b. 1901)
  • Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark (b. 1910)
• February 14
  • James Bond, American ornithologist (b. 1900)
  • Vincent Crane, British musician (Atomic Rooster) (b. 1943)
• February 16 – Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg (b. 1899)
• February 17
  • 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)
• February 21
  • 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)
• February 27
  • Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (b. 1897)
  • Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903)

March

Salvatore Dell'Isola

Maurice Evans

Sa`id Al-Mufti

• 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

Sugar Ray Robinson

Abbie Hoffman

Emilio Segrè

Hamani Diori

Lucille Ball

Guy Williams

• 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

Edward Ochab

Zdeněk Frolík

Xiao Wangdong

• 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

Ruhollah Khomeini

Prince Vasili Alexandrovich of Russia

Hilmar Baunsgaard

• 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

Win Maung

János Kádár

Herbert von Karajan

Rebecca Schaeffer

Kazimierz Sabbat

• July 2
  • Andrei Gromyko, Soviet politician and diplomat, former Foreign Minister (b. 1909)
  • Ben Wright, British actor in radio, film and television (b. 1915)
  • Franklin Schaffner, American film director (b. 1920)
• 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

George Andreasen

William Shockley

Pua Kealoha

• 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)
• August 13
  • 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)
• August 15
  • Minoru Genda, Japanese aviator, naval officer and politician (b. 1904)
  • Dorothea Leighton, American social psychiatrist, founded the field of medical anthropology (b. 1908)
• August 16
  • 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)
• August 20
  • George Adamson, Indian-born American conservationist (b. 1906)
  • Joseph LaShelle, American cinematographer (b. 1900)
• August 22
  • 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)
• August 29
  • Pua Kealoha, American Olympic swimmer (b. 1902)
  • Sir Peter Scott, British naturalist, artist and explorer (b. 1909)
• August 30
  • Joe Collins, American baseball player (b. 1922)
  • Joe De Santis, American actor and sculptor (b. 1909)

September

Ferdinand Marcos

• September 1 – A. Bartlett Giamatti, American President of Yale University and MLB Commissioner (b. 1938)
• September 4
  • 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)
• September 5
  • Les Allen, Australian footballer (b. 1911)
  • William Mann, British music critic (b. 1924)
• September 8
  • 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)
• September 17
  • 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)
• September 30
  • 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

Paola Barbara

Bette Davis

• October 2
  • 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)
• October 11
  • 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)
• October 16
  • Scott O'Dell, American children's writer and winner of 5 Newbery Awards (b. 1898)
  • Cornel Wilde, American actor (b. 1915)
• October 20
  • 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)
• October 22
  • 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)
• October 28
  • Henry Hall, British bandleader (b. 1898)
  • Yuliya Solntseva, Soviet actress (b. 1901)
• October 30 – Pedro Vargas, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1904)
• October 31
  • Georgi Partsalev, Bulgarian theatre and film actor (b. 1925)
  • Roger Scott, British radio disk jockey (b. 1943)

November

Édouard Candeveau, 1924 Olympic gold medalist

Franz Joseph II

Ignacio Ellacuría

René Moawad

Abdullah Azzam

Carlos Arias Navarro

Ahmadou Ahidjo

• 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)
• November 5
  • 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)
• November 13
  • Victor Davis, Canadian Olympic swimmer (b. 1964)
  • Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein (b. 1906)
• November 16
  • 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)
• November 19
  • Nancy Drexel, American actress (b. 1910)
  • Grant Adcox, American race car driver (b. 1950)
• November 20
  • Lynn Bari, American actress (b. 1913)
  • Leonardo Sciascia, Italian writer (b. 1921)
• November 22
  • 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)
• November 29
  • 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)
• November 30
  • Ahmadou Ahidjo, Cameroonian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Cameroon and President of Cameroon (b. 1924)
  • Hassan Fathy, Egyptian architect (b. 1900)

December

Sourou-Migan Apithy

Andrei Sakharov

José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha

Lee Van Cleef

Samuel Beckett

Nicolae Ceaușescu

Hermann Oberth

• December 1 – Alvin Ailey, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1931)
• December 2 – Ray Morehart, American baseball player (b. 1899)
• December 3
  • 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)
• December 6
  • 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)
• December 11
  • Carlos Almaraz, Mexican-born American artist (b. 1941)
  • Lindsay Crosby, American singer and actor (b. 1938)
• December 14
  • Jock Mahoney, American actor (b. 1919)
  • Andrei Sakharov, Soviet physicist and activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (declined) (b. 1921)
• December 15
  • José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha, Colombian drug lord and criminal (b. 1947)
  • Edward Underdown, British stage and film veteran (b. 1908)
• December 16
  • 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)
• December 19
  • 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)
• December 21
  • Ján Cikker, Slovak composer (b. 1911)
  • Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Nigerian-born British photographer, co-founder Autograph ABP (b. 1955)
• December 22
  • 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)
• December 25
  • 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)
• December 28
  • Brian Coburn, British actor (b. 1936)
  • Hermann Oberth, Austro-Hungarian-born German engineer, physicist and scientist (b. 1894)
• December 30
  • Yasuji Miyazaki, Japanese Olympic swimmer (b. 1916)
  • Madoline Thomas, Welsh actress (b. 1890)
• December 31
  • Gerhard Schröder, German politician (b. 1910)
  • Sir Ignatius Kilage, 4th Governor-General of Papua New Guinea (b. 1941)

Nobel Prizes

• 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 of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Trygve Haavelmo

References

Further reading

• Ash, Timothy Garton. The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague (1999) excerpt
• Kenney, Padraic, ed. 1989: Democratic Revolutions at the Cold War's End: A Brief History with Documents (2009)
• Sebestyen, Victor. Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire (2010) excerpt

External links

• After the fall – Europe after 1989
• Mikhail Gorbachev on 1989 – 2009 interview by The Nation
• Freedom Without Walls: German Missions in the United States Looking Back at the Fall of the Berlin Wall – official homepage in English