1989: The Year in People

What happened in 1989

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.

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Died in 1989

• Bette Davis1908–1989 · American actress
• Amanda Blake1929–1989 · American actress
• Abbie Hoffman1936–1989 · American activist
• Sugar Ray Robinson1921–1989 · American boxer
• Daphne du Maurier1907–1989 · English novelist
• Billy Martin1928–1989 · American baseball player and manager
• Andrei Sakharov1921–1989 · Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist
• Herbert von Karajan1908–1989 · Austrian conductor
• Ewan MacColl1915–1989 · British folk singer-songwriter and activist
• Anthony Quayle1913–1989 · British actor
• Barry Sadler1940–1989 · American author and musician
• Alvin Ailey1931–1989 · American dancer and activist