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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

The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations.

January

 * January 1
 * The Internet's Domain Name System is created.
 * Greenland is withdrawn from the European Economic Community.
 * First UK cellular mobile phone network launched by Vodafone.
 * January 7
 * Cellnet launches 2nd UK cellular network.
 * Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
 * January 11 - Was realized the first night of festival Rock In Rio with a legendary show of Queen and Iron Maiden.
 * January 13 – A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.
 * January 15 – Tancredo Neves is elected president of Brazil by the Congress, ending the 21-year military rule.
 * January 17 – British Telecom announces it is going to phase out its famous red telephone boxes.
 * January 20 – Ronald Reagan is privately sworn in for a second term as President of the United States.
 * January 21 – President Ronald Reagan is publicly sworn in.
 * January 27 – The Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) is formed.
 * January 28 – The charity single record "We Are the World" is recorded by USA for Africa.

February

 * February 4 – The border between Gibraltar and Spain reopens for the first time since Francisco Franco closed it in 1969.
 * February 5 – Australia cancels its involvement in U.S.-led MX missile tests.
 * February 9 – U.S. drug agent Kiki Camarena is kidnapped and murdered in Mexico (his body is discovered March 5)
 * February 12 – Rafael Addiego Bruno is sworn in as interim President of Uruguay.
 * February 14 – CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is freed from captivity in Lebanon.
 * February 16
 * Israel begins withdrawing troops from Lebanon.
 * The ideology of Hezbollah is declared in a "program" issued in Beirut.
 * February 19
 * William J. Schroeder becomes the first artificial heart patient to leave hospital.
 * China Airlines Flight 006 is involved in a mid-air incident; while there are 22 minor injuries and 2 serious injuries, no one is killed.
 * The first episode of the long-running British soap opera EastEnders is broadcast on BBC One television.
 * February 20 – Minolta releases the Maxxum 7000, the world's first autofocus single-lens reflex camera.
 * February 28 – 1985 Newry mortar attack: The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.

March

 * March – The GNU Manifesto, written by Richard Stallman, is first published.
 * March 1 – After a 12-year-long dictatorship, Julio María Sanguinetti is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Uruguay.
 * March 3 – The 8.0 Algarrobo earthquake hits Santiago and Valparaíso, Chile, leaving 177 dead, 2,575 injured, 142,489 houses destroyed, and about a million people homeless.
 * March 4 – The United States Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS, used since then to screen all blood donations in the United States.
 * March 8 – A Beirut car bomb, planted in an attempt to assassinate Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, kills more than 80 people, injuring 200.
 * March 11
 * Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and de facto leader of the Soviet Union.
 * Mohamed Al-Fayed buys the London-based department store company Harrods.
 * March 15 – Vice-President José Sarney, upon becoming vice president, assumes the duties of president of Brazil, as the new president Tancredo Neves had become severely ill the day before. Sarney would later become Brazil's first civilian president in 21 years, upon Neves' death on April 21.
 * March 16 – Associated Press reporter Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut; he is released on December 4, 1991.
 * March 17 – Expo '85, a World's Fair, is held in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, until September 16.
 * March 18 – Australia's longest-running soap opera, Neighbours, debuts on Seven Network.
 * March 21 – Canadian paraplegic athlete and activist Rick Hansen sets out on his 40,000 km, 26-month Man in Motion tour which raises $26M for spinal cord research and quality of life initiatives.
 * March 23 – OCAM is dissolved.
 * March 24 – United States Army military intelligence officer Arthur D. Nicholson is shot by Soviet military sergeant Aleksandr Ryabtsev at a Soviet military base in Ludwigslust, East Germany.
 * March 25 – The 57th Academy Awards are held in Los Angeles, with Amadeus winning Best Picture.

April

 * April – Soviet–Afghan War: The Soviet Union begins to transfer the burden of fighting the mujahideen to the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, an origin of the Revolutions of 1989.
 * April 1
 * Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation, and Japan Tobacco and Salt Public Corporation, are privatized and change their names to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, and Japan Tobacco.
 * Eighth seeded Villanova Wildcats men's basketball defeats national powerhouse Georgetown 66–64 to win the first 64 team field NCAA Tournament in Lexington, Kentucky.
 * April 11
 * The USS Coral Sea collides with the Ecuadorian tanker ship Napo off the coast of Cuba.
 * First Secretary Enver Hoxha, leader of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania dies.
 * April 12 – El Descanso bombing: A terrorist bombing attributed to the Islamic Jihad Organization in the El Descanso restaurant near Madrid, Spain, mostly attended by U.S. personnel from the Torrejón Air Base, causes 18 deaths (all Spaniards) and 82 injuries.
 * April 15 – South Africa ends its ban on interracial marriages.
 * April 19 – The Soviet Union performs a nuclear weapon test in eastern Kazakhstan.
 * April 21 – Brazilian President Tancredo Neves dies; he is succeeded by Vice President José Sarney. The Vice President post is left vacant until 1990.
 * April 23 – Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months.
 * April 28 – The Australian Nuclear Disarmament Party (NDP) splits.

May

 * May 1 – Soekarno-Hatta International Airport officially opened, which also became the new international gateway into Indonesia.
 * May 4 – The 30th Eurovision Song Contest takes place in Gothenburg, Sweden and is won by the Bobbysocks! song La det swinge for Norway.
 * May 5 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan joins West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl for a controversial funeral service at a cemetery in Bitburg, West Germany, which includes the graves of 59 elite S.S. troops from World War II.
 * May 9 - The 3rd total Victory Day Parade, the first in 1945 and the next in 1965, is held on Red Square in Moscow, RSFSR. It features T-34-85 Tanks, Veterans of WWII from Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union, and is the first parade to be held during the reign of Mikhail Gorbachev.
 * May 11
 * The FBI brings charges against the suspected heads of the five Mafia families in New York City.
 * Fire engulfs a wooden stand at the Valley Parade stadium in Bradford, England, during a football match, killing 56 people.
 * May 13
 * Philadelphia Mayor Wilson Goode orders police to storm the radical group MOVE's headquarters to end a stand-off. The police drop an explosive device into the headquarters, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 61 city residents in the resulting fire.
 * The National Assembly of Kuwait grants women the right to vote. The right is revoked in 1999 and re-instated in 2005.
 * May 15
 * An explosive device sent by the Unabomber injures John Hauser at University of California, Berkeley.
 * Argentinian President Raúl Alfonsín terminates Argentinian administration of the Falkland Islands but does not relinquish Argentina's claim to the islands.
 * May 16 – Scientists of the British Antarctic Survey announce discovery of the ozone hole.
 * May 19 – John Anthony Walker Jr. is arrested by the FBI for passing classified naval communications to the Soviet Union.
 * May 23 – Thomas Patrick Cavanaugh is sentenced to life in prison for attempting to sell stealth bomber secrets to the Soviet Union.
 * May 25 – Approximately 10,000 people are killed when Bangladesh is affected by the storm surge from Tropical Storm One (1B).
 * May 26 – A new guard in auto racing took place as young gun Danny Sullivan beat the old guard Mario Andretti to win the 1985 Indianapolis 500 and landed on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
 * May 29 – Heysel Stadium disaster: Thirty-eight spectators are killed in rioting on the terraces during the European Cup final between Liverpool F.C. and Juventus at Heysel Stadium in Brussels, Belgium.
 * May 31 – Forty-four tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Ontario, killing 90.

June

 * June 6 – The remains of Josef Mengele, the physician notorious for Nazi human experimentation on inmates of Auschwitz concentration camp, buried in 1979 under the name of Wolfgang Gerhard, are exhumed in Embu das Artes, Brazil.
 * June 13 – In Auburn, Washington, police defuse a Unabomber bomb sent to Boeing.
 * June 14
 * TWA Flight 847, carrying 153 passengers from Athens to Rome, is hijacked by a Hezbollah fringe group. One passenger, U.S. Navy Petty Officer Robert Stethem, is killed.
 * The Schengen Agreement is signed between certain member states of the European Economic Community, creating the Schengen Area, a bloc of (at this time) 5 states with no internal border controls.
 * June 15 – Studio Ghibli, an animation studio, is founded in Tokyo.
 * June 17 – John Hendricks launches the Discovery Channel in the United States.
 * June 20 – A series of bomb blasts occur in Kathmandu and other cities of Nepal.
 * June 23 – Air India Flight 182, a Boeing 747, is blown up by a terrorist bomb 31,000 feet (9,500 m) above the Atlantic Ocean, south of Ireland, on a Montreal–London–Delhi flight, killing all 329 aboard.
 * June 24 – STS-51-G: Space Shuttle Discovery completes its mission, best remembered for having Sultan bin Salman Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a Payload Specialist.
 * June 25 – Irish police foil a Provisional Irish Republican Army–sponsored 'mainland bombing campaign' which targeted luxury vacation resorts.
 * June 27 – U.S. Route 66 is officially decommissioned.

July

 * July 1 – The Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons enters into force.
 * July 3 – Back to the Future opens in American theatres and ends up being the highest-grossing film of 1985 in the United States and the first film in the successful franchise.
 * July 4 – Ruth Lawrence, 13, achieves a first in mathematics at Oxford University, becoming the youngest British person ever to earn a first-class degree and the youngest known graduate of Oxford University.
 * July 10 – The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland Harbour by French DGSE agents.
 * July 13
 * Live Aid benefit concerts in London and Philadelphia raise over £50 million for famine relief in Ethiopia.
 * U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush serves as Acting President for eight hours, while President Ronald Reagan undergoes colon cancer surgery at Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
 * July 19
 * U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush announces that New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe will become the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
 * The Val di Stava Dam in Italy collapses.
 * July 20 – State President of South Africa, P. W. Botha, declares a state of emergency in 36 magisterial districts of South Africa amid growing civil unrest in black townships.
 * July 23 – Commodore launches the Amiga personal computer at the Lincoln Center in New York.

August

 * August – ATI Technologies is founded (originally as Array Technology) in North America by Lee Ka Lau, Francis Lau, Benny Lau and Kwok Yuen Ho.
 * August 2 – Delta Air Lines Flight 191 crashes near Dallas, Texas, killing 137 people.
 * August 7 – Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
 * August 12 – Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes in Japan, killing 520 people (the worst single-aircraft disaster in history).
 * August 14 – The Accomarca massacre takes place in Ayacucho, Peru.
 * August 15 – Three miners die in an accident at a coal mine in southeastern Kentucky.
 * August 20 – Iran–Contra affair: The first arms, 96 BGM-71 TOWs, are sent to Iran in exchange for hostages in Lebanon and profits for the Nicaraguan Contras. The public does not know about the arms sale.
 * August 22 – British Airtours Flight 28M: The 737's left engine catches fire while on its takeoff roll and 55 people are killed while trying to evacuate the aircraft.
 * August 25 – Samantha Smith, 13, "Goodwill Ambassador" between the Soviet Union and the United States for writing a letter to Yuri Andropov about nuclear war, and eventually visiting the Soviet Union at Andropov's request, dies in the Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 plane crash.
 * August 28 – The first smoking ban banning smoking in restaurants in the United States is passed in Aspen, Colorado.
 * August 31 – Richard Ramirez, the serial killer known as the Night Stalker, is captured in Los Angeles.

September

 * September 1 – The wreck of the RMS Titanic (1912) in the North Atlantic is located by a joint American-French expedition led by Dr. Robert Ballard (WHOI) and Jean-Louis Michel (IFREMER) using side-scan sonar from RV Knorr.
 * September 2 – Hurricane Elena makes landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast after reaching a Category 3 status
 * September 4 – Catcher Gary Carter of the New York Mets ties a record with five home runs in two games.
 * September 6 – Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9, crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, killing all 31.
 * September 11 – Pete Rose becomes the all-time hit leader in Major League Baseball, with his 4,192nd hit at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati.
 * September 13
 * Super Mario Bros. is released for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
 * Steve Jobs resigns from Apple Computer in order to found NeXT.
 * September 19 – An 8.0 earthquake strikes Mexico City, killing 5,000–45,000 and injuring 30,000.
 * September 20 – The capital gains tax is introduced to Australia.
 * September 22 – The Plaza Accord is signed by five nations.
 * September 23 – Italian crime reporter Giancarlo Siani is killed by Camorra.
 * September 28 – Brixton riots are sparked with the shooting of Dorothy "Cherry" Groce by the Metropolitan Police in Brixton, South London.

October

 * October 1 – The Israeli air force bombs PLO Headquarters near Tunis.
 * October 3 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight.
 * October 4 – The Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, US.
 * October 7 – The cruise ship Achille Lauro is hijacked in the Mediterranean Sea by four heavily armed Palestinian terrorists. One passenger, American Leon Klinghoffer, is killed.
 * October 18 – The first Nintendo home video game console in the United States is released as the Nintendo Entertainment System.
 * October 25 – Emirates Airlines, establishes in Dubai and performs its first flight to Karachi.

November

 * November 5 – In an all English match, Mark Kaylor defeats Errol Christie to become the middleweight boxing champion, after the two brawl in front of the cameras at the weigh-in.
 * November 6 – Palace of Justice siege: Members of the M-19 Marxist guerrilla group take over the Palace of Justice in Bogotá, Colombia, and hold the Supreme Court hostage. Hours later, after a military raid, the incident leaves almost half of the 25 Supreme Court Justices dead.
 * November 9 – In an all-Soviet match, 22-year-old Garry Kasparov defeats Anatoly Karpov to become the youngest-ever undisputed winner of the World Chess Championship.
 * November 12 – A total solar eclipse occurs over Antarctica at 14:11:22 UTC.
 * November 13
 * Armero tragedy: The Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts, killing an estimated 23,000 people, including 21,000 killed by lahars in the town of Armero, Colombia.
 * Xavier Suárez is sworn in as Miami's first Cuban-born mayor.
 * November 19 – Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
 * November 20 – Microsoft Corporation releases the first version of Windows, Windows 1.0.
 * November 23 – EgyptAir Flight 648 is hijacked by the Abu Nidal group and flown to Malta, where Egyptian commandos storm the plane; 60 are killed by gunfire and explosions.
 * November 25 – 1985 Aeroflot Antonov An-12 shoot-down: A Soviet Aeroflot Antonov An-12 cargo airplane, en route from Cuito Cuanavale to Luanda, is shot down by South African Special Forces and crashes approximately 43 km east of Menongue, the provincial center of the Cuando Cubango Province, Angola, killing 8 crew members and 13 passengers on board.
 * November 26 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan sells the rights to his autobiography to Random House for a record US$3 million.
 * November 29 – Gérard Hoarau, exiled political leader from the Seychelles, is assassinated in London.

December

 * December 1
 * The Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (Organización e Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educación la Ciencia y la Cultura) (OEI) is created.
 * The Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable are released for sale to the public.
 * December 8 – The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is established.
 * December 11 – Hugh Scrutton is killed outside his Sacramento, California computer rental store by a Unabomber explosive, becoming the first fatality of the bombing campaign
 * December 12 – Arrow Air Flight 1285, a Douglas DC-8, crashes after takeoff from Gander, Newfoundland, killing 256 people – 248 of whom were U.S. servicemen returning to Fort Campbell, Kentucky from overseeing a peacekeeping force in the Sinai Peninsula.
 * December 16 – In New York City, American Mafia bosses Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead in front of Spark's Steak House, making hit organizer John Gotti the leader of the powerful Gambino crime family.
 * December 20 – Pope John Paul II announces the instituting of World Youth Day for Catholic youths.
 * December 24 – Extremist David Lewis Rice murders civil rights attorney Charles Goldmark as well as Goldmark's wife and two children in Seattle. Rice suspects the family of being Jewish and Communist and claims his dedication to the Christian Identity movement drove him to the crime.
 * December 27
 * Rome and Vienna airport attacks: Abu Nidal terrorists open fire in the airports of Rome and Vienna, leaving 18 dead and 120 injured.
 * American naturalist Dian Fossey is found murdered in Rwanda.
 * December 31 – American singer, songwriter and actor Ricky Nelson dies in a plane crash in De Kalb, Texas.

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 * Western Sahara is admitted to the Organization of African Unity; Morocco, which claims Western Sahara, leaves in protest.
 * The fullerene Buckminsterfullerene (C60) is first intentionally prepared by Harold Kroto, James R. Heath, Sean O'Brien, Robert Curl and Richard Smalley at Rice University in the United States.
 * DNA is first used in a criminal case.
 * The Asian tiger mosquito, an invasive species, is first found in Houston, Texas.
 * The Tommy Hilfiger clothing brand is established in the United States.
 * Multiple cases of espionage in the United States prompt the media to label this "The Year of the Spy".
 * The 1983–85 famine in Ethiopia continues; USA for Africa (We Are the World) and Live Aid raise funds for famine relief.
 * Africa has a population growth of 3.2 percent per year.

January

 * January 1
 * Jeff Carter, Canadian hockey player
 * Steven Davis, Northern Irish footballer
 * January 2
 * Teng Haibin, Chinese gymnast
 * Heather O'Reilly, U.S. women's national soccer player
 * Damien Bodie, Australian actor
 * January 3
 * John David Booty, American football quarterback, USC
 * Linas Kleiza, Lithuanian basketball player
 * January 4
 * Danielle Campo, Canadian Paralympic swimmer
 * Al Jefferson, American basketball player
 * Fernando Rees, Brazilian race car driver
 * January 5
 * Michael Cuccione, Canadian child actor and activist (d. 2001)
 * Lopez Lomong, Sudan-born American Olympic runner
 * Diego Vera, Uruguayan footballer
 * January 7
 * Lewis Hamilton, British 5-Time Formula One world champion
 * Tiger Kirchharz, German dancer
 * Wayne Routledge, English footballer
 * January 8 – Rachael Lampa, American Christian singer
 * January 9 – Bobô, Brazilian footballer
 * January 10 – Martiño Rivas, Spanish actor
 * January 11
 * Newton Faulkner, British rock musician
 * Rie fu, Japanese pop and rock musician
 * Lucy Knisley, American comic artist and musician
 * January 15 – Brandon Mebane, American football player
 * January 16
 * Joe Flacco, American football player
 * Gintaras Januševičius, Lithuanian pianist
 * Sidharth Malhotra, Indian actor
 * Renée Felice Smith, American actress
 * January 17
 * Kangin, Korean singer (Super Junior)
 * Simone Simons, Lead singer of Dutch rock group Epica
 * January 19
 * Damien Chazelle, American film director and screenwriter
 * Rika Ishikawa, Japanese singer and host of television and radio programs
 * January 20 – Marina Inoue, Japanese voice actress
 * January 21
 * Aura Dione, Danish pop musician
 * Sasha Pivovarova, Russian model
 * January 22
 * Akira Nagata, Japanese singer (Run&Gun), actor and voice actor
 * Orianthi, Australian rock musician
 * January 23 – Doutzen Kroes, Dutch supermodel
 * January 25 – Tina Karol, Ukrainian singer
 * January 26
 * Edwin Hodge, American actor
 * Rusko, British musician
 * Michael Trevino, American actor
 * January 28
 * J. Cole, American hip-hop musician and record producer
 * Tom Hopper, British actor
 * András Kállay-Saunders, Hungarian American recording artist, songwriter and record producer
 * January 29
 * Bosh Berlin, American drummer (Living Things)
 * Liu Chunhong, Chinese weightlifter
 * Marc Gasol, Spanish basketball player
 * Isabel Lucas, Australian actress
 * January 30 – Richie Porte, Australian professional cyclist (Tasmanian)

February

 * February 2 – Fontel Mines, American football player
 * February 4
 * Bashy, English recording artist and actor
 * Bug Hall, American actor
 * February 5
 * Vicki Chase, American porn actress
 * Laurence Maroney, American football player
 * Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer
 * February 6
 * Kris Humphries, American basketball player
 * Joji Kato, Japanese speedskater
 * Crystal Reed, American actress
 * February 7
 * Donald Moatshe, South African musician
 * Tegan Moss, Canadian actress
 * Tina Majorino, American actress
 * Deborah Ann Woll, American actress
 * February 8
 * Seo Min-woo, South Korean idol singer and actor (d. 2018)
 * Jeremy Davis, American bassist (Paramore)
 * Bob Morris, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Hush Sound)
 * Trevor Smith, Canadian ice hockey player
 * February 9
 * David Gallagher, American actor
 * Rachel Melvin, American actress
 * February 10 – Anette Sagen, Norwegian ski jumper
 * February 11
 * William Beckett, American singer and songwriter
 * Mike Richards, Canadian hockey player
 * February 12 – Saskia Burmeister, Australian actress
 * February 15 – Natalie Morales, American actress
 * February 17 – Zelda Harris, American actress
 * February 18
 * Chelsea Hobbs, Canadian actress and singer
 * Todd Lasance, Australian actor
 * Lee Boyd Malvo, Jamaican serial killer
 * Jos van Emden, Dutch cyclist
 * February 19
 * Haylie Duff, American actress and singer
 * Arielle Kebbel, American model and actress
 * February 20 – Yulia Volkova, Russian singer
 * February 21 – Larisa Bakurova, Ukrainian actress and model based in Taiwan
 * February 22
 * Hameur Bouazza, Algerian footballer
 * Zach Roerig, American actor
 * February 25
 * Benji Marshall, Australian rugby league player
 * Joakim Noah, American basketball player
 * February 26
 * Shiloh Fernandez, American actor
 * Miki Fujimoto, Japanese actor and pop singer
 * February 28
 * Fefe Dobson, Canadian pop and rock singer
 * Jelena Janković, Serbian tennis player
 * Diego Ribas da Cunha, Brazilian soccer player

March

 * March 1 – Cole Sanchez, American voice actor and artist
 * March 2
 * Reggie Bush, American football player
 * Robert Iler, American actor
 * Patrick Makau Musyoki, Kenyan long-distance runner
 * March 3
 * Alena and Ninel Karpovich, Belarusian twin sister musical duo, members of 3+2
 * Sam Morrow, Northern Irish footballer
 * March 7 – Cameron Prosser, Australian swimmer
 * March 8 – Ewa Sonnet, Polish model
 * March 9
 * Brent Burns, Canadian hockey player
 * Rachel Nabors, American cartoonist
 * March 10 – Lassana Diarra, French footballer
 * March 11
 * Paul Bissonnette, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Ajantha Mendis, Sri Lankan cricketer
 * Hakuhō Shō, 69th Yokozuna
 * March 12
 * Nikolai Topor-Stanley, Australian soccer player
 * Stromae, Belgian musical artist
 * March 13 – Emile Hirsch, American actor
 * March 14
 * Eva Angelina, American pornographic actress
 * March 15
 * Eva Amurri, American actress
 * Antti Autti, Finnish snowboarder
 * Curtis Davies, English football player
 * Kellan Lutz, American fashion model and actor
 * March 17 – Dominic Adams, British actor and model
 * March 18
 * Krisztián Berki, Hungarian artistic gymnast
 * Bianca King, Filipina actress and model
 * March 19 – E. J. Viso, Venezuelan race car driver
 * March 21
 * Ryan Callahan, American hockey player
 * Adrian Peterson, American football player
 * Sonequa Martin-Green, American actress
 * March 22
 * Mayola Biboko, Belgian footballer
 * Jakob Fuglsang, Danish cyclist
 * Mike Jenkins, American football player
 * Justin Masterson, American baseball player
 * Kelli Waite, Australian swimmer
 * March 23 – Maryana Spivak, Russian actress
 * March 24
 * Haruka Ayase, Japanese actress and model
 * Sayaka Hirano, Japanese table tennis player
 * March 25 – Yūsuke Kobayashi, Japanese voice actor
 * March 26
 * Matt Grevers, American Olympic swimmer
 * Jonathan Groff, American actor, singer and dancer
 * Keira Knightley, English actress
 * March 27
 * Blake McIver, American singer-songwriter, actor, model and pianist
 * Danny Vuković, Australian soccer player
 * Caroline Winberg, Swedish model
 * March 29 – William Chak, Hong Kong actor
 * March 31 – Jessica Szohr, American actress

April

 * April 1
 * Danilo Caçador, Brazilian footballer (d. 2018)
 * Daniel Murphy, American baseball player
 * Beth Tweddle, British artistic gymnast
 * April 2
 * Barry Corr, Irish footballer
 * Thom Evans, Zimbabwean-Scottish rugby player
 * Stéphane Lambiel, Swiss figure skater
 * April 3
 * Leona Lewis, British pop musician
 * Jari-Matti Latvala, Finnish race car driver
 * April 4
 * Lance Dos Ramos, Venezuelan actor, model and animator
 * Rudy Fernández, Spanish professional basketball player
 * Ricardo Vilar, Brazilian footballer
 * April 5
 * Kim Ji-hoo, South Korean model and actor (d. 2008)
 * Lastings Milledge, American baseball player
 * April 6
 * Clarke MacArthur, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Al Mukadam, Canadian actor, director, and producer
 * Frank Ongfiang, Cameroonian footballer
 * Sinqua Walls, American basketball player and actor
 * April 7
 * Ariela Massotti, Brazilian actress
 * KC Concepcion, Filipina actress and singer
 * April 8
 * Patrick Schliwa, German rugby player
 * Yemane Tsegay, Ethiopian runner
 * April 9
 * Tim Bendzko, German singer-songwriter
 * David Robertson, American baseball player
 * Tomohisa Yamashita, Japanese singer and actor
 * Brian Elliott, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
 * April 10
 * Christie Laing, Canadian actress
 * Dion Phaneuf, Canadian NHL hockey player
 * Wang Meng, Chinese short track skater
 * April 12
 * Brennan Boesch, American baseball player
 * Olga Seryabkina, Russian pop musician
 * Hitomi Yoshizawa, Japanese singer and actress
 * April 13 – Carmen Carrera, American model
 * April 16
 * Nate Diaz, American mixed martial artist
 * Benjamín Rojas, Argentine singer and actor
 * April 17
 * Rooney Mara, American film and television actress
 * Luke Mitchell, Australian actor and model
 * Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, French tennis player
 * April 18
 * Łukasz Fabiański, Polish footballer
 * Elena Temnikova, Russian pop singer
 * April 19
 * Sabrina Jalees, Canadian comedian, dancer, actress, presenter, and writer
 * Zhang Xi, Chinese beach volleyball player
 * April 20 – Billy Magnussen, American actor
 * April 22
 * Kristin Fairlie, Canadian actress
 * Camille Lacourt, French swimmer
 * April 23
 * Taio Cruz, British hip-hop musician
 * Angel Locsin, Filipino actress
 * April 24
 * Courtnee Draper, American actress, singer and voice actress
 * Joséphine Jobert, French actress and singer
 * Kaori Nazuka, Japanese voice actress and singer
 * April 26
 * Nam Gyu-ri, Korean actress and pop singer
 * Jemima Kirke, English-American artist and actress
 * April 28 – Brandon Baker, American actor
 * April 30 – Gal Gadot, Israeli actress and model

May

 * May 1 – Drew Sidora, American actress and singer
 * May 2
 * Lily Allen, British pop musician
 * Kyle Busch, American race car driver
 * Sarah Hughes, American figure skater
 * Alexander Galimov, Russian hockey player (d. 2011)
 * May 3 – Meagan Tandy, American actress and model
 * May 4 – Bo McCalebb, American/Macedonian basketball player
 * May 5
 * Clark Duke, American actor
 * Shoko Nakagawa, Japanese actress, voice actress and singer
 * May 6
 * Chris Paul, American basketball player
 * Dent May, American pop musician
 * May 7
 * J Balvin, Colombian-born reggaeton singer
 * Andrew Carroll, American ice hockey player (d. 2018)
 * May 8 – Silvia Stroescu, Romanian artistic gymnast
 * May 9 – Chris Zylka, American actor and model
 * May 10
 * Odette Annable, American actress
 * David Miranda, Brazilian journalist and politician
 * May 11 – Jadyn Wong, Canadian actress
 * May 12 – Dániel Tőzsér, Hungarian footballer
 * May 13 – Iwan Rheon, Welsh actor, singer and musician
 * May 14
 * Lina Esco, American actress, producer and activist
 * Sally Martin, New Zealand actress
 * Zack Ryder, American professional wrestler
 * May 15
 * Derek Hough, American dancer, choreographer and musician, six-time winner of ABC's Dancing with the Stars
 * Cristiane, Brazilian footballer
 * Tathagata Mukherjee, Indian actor
 * Tyrone Savage, Canadian voice actor and theatre, film and television actor
 * May 17
 * Christine Nesbitt, Canadian speed skater
 * Matt Ryan, American football player
 * May 18 – Oliver Sin, Hungarian painter
 * May 20 – Chris Froome, Kenyan-born British road racing cyclist
 * May 21
 * Mutya Buena, British urban singer and was member of Sugababes
 * Alison Carroll, British artistic gymnast, actress and model
 * May 22
 * Chrissie Chau, Hong Kong model
 * Marc-Antoine Pouliot, Canadian ice hockey player
 * May 23 – Kanyeria, Kenyan music producer
 * May 24 – John Vigilante, American ice hockey (d. 2018)
 * May 25
 * Luciana Abreu, Portuguese pop singer and actress
 * Lauren Frost, American actress and singer
 * Roman Reigns, American professional wrestler
 * May 26 – Ashley Vincent, English footballer
 * May 27
 * Chien-Ming Chiang, Taiwanese baseball player
 * Andrew Francis, Canadian voice actor and actor
 * May 28
 * Colbie Caillat, American musician
 * Carey Mulligan, British actress
 * Emily Wilson, American actress
 * May 29 – Blake Foster, American actor and martial artist
 * May 30
 * Sam Gifaldi, American actor
 * Turk McBride, American National Football League player
 * May 31
 * Zoraida Gómez, Mexican actress
 * Navene Koperweis, American progressive metal musician

June

 * June 1 – Ari Herstand, American singer-songwriter
 * June 2 – Miyuki Sawashiro, Japanese voice actress
 * June 4
 * Evan Lysacek, American figure skater
 * Lukas Podolski, German footballer
 * Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian fashion model (d. 2006)
 * Bar Refaeli, Israeli model and occasional actress
 * June 6 – Abbie Cobb, American actress and author
 * June 7 – Marie Miyake, Japanese voice actress
 * June 9
 * Eusebio Henrique de Almeida, East Timorese footballer
 * Sonam Kapoor, Indian actress and model
 * Sebastian Telfair, American basketball player
 * June 10
 * Andy Schleck, Luxembuergian road cyclist
 * Rok Perko, Slovenian professional skier
 * Kaia Kanepi, Estonian tennis player
 * Celina Jade, American actress
 * Kristina Apgar, American actress
 * June 11 – Dmitry Koldun, Belarusian singer
 * June 12
 * Dave Franco, American television and film actor
 * Blake Ross, American software developer
 * June 13 – Danny Syvret, Canadian ice hockey player
 * June 15 – Nadine Coyle, Irish singer
 * June 17
 * Kateryna Handziuk, Ukrainian politician (d. 2018)
 * Andrea Demirović, Montenegrin pop singer
 * Marcos Baghdatis, Cypriot tennis player
 * June 18 – Alex Hirsch, American animator and voice actor
 * June 19 – Ai Miyazato, Japanese golfer
 * June 20
 * Mark Saul, American actor
 * Matt Flynn, American football player
 * Darko Miličić, Serbian basketball player
 * June 21
 * Kris Allen, 8th American Idol winner, rock musician
 * Sharna Burgess, Australian ballroom dancer
 * Lana Del Rey, American pop musician
 * June 22
 * Aaron Lim, Malaysian racing driver
 * Douglas Smith, American actor
 * Lindsay Ridgeway, American actress
 * Rosa Kato, Japanese actress and model
 * June 23
 * Marcel Reece, American football player
 * Kavka Shishido, Japanese drummer and vocalist
 * June 24
 * Tom Kennedy, English footballer
 * Aste, Finnish rapper
 * Justin Hires, American actor and stand-up comedian
 * Krunoslav Simon, Croatian basketball player
 * June 25
 * Ehra Madrigal, Filipino actress
 * Mohd Fitri Omar, Malaysian footballer
 * Scott Brown, Scottish footballer
 * Maria Kristin Yulianti, Indonesian badminton player
 * Annaleigh Ashford, American actress, singer and dancer
 * Ethan Klein, American YouTuber
 * June 26
 * Arjun Kapoor, Indian actor
 * Bobo Sollander, Swedish footballer
 * Ogyen Trinley Dorje, Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader
 * Cameron Tovey, Malaysian-Australian basketball player
 * June 27
 * Martin Sensmeier, Alaska Native actor
 * James Hook, Welsh rugby union player
 * Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player
 * Nico Rosberg, German 2016 Formula 1 world champion
 * June 28
 * Phil Bardsley, English footballer
 * Ahmed Kantari, Moroccan footballer
 * June 29 – Steven Hauschka, American football player
 * June 30
 * Michael Phelps, American swimmer
 * Hugh Sheridan, Australian actor, musician and television presenter
 * Lasarus Ratuere, Australian actor
 * Cody Rhodes, American professional wrestler

July

 * July 1
 * Nineteen85, Canadian hip-hop producer
 * Spose, American hip-hop musician
 * Sebalter, Swiss pop musician and fiddle player
 * Léa Seydoux, French actress
 * Ocean Mushure, Zimbabwean footballer
 * Zohre Esmaeli, Afghan-born fashion model
 * July 2
 * Gábor Máthé, Hungarian Deaflympic Champion in tennis
 * Ashley Tisdale, American actress and singer
 * Vlatko Ilievski, Macedonian singer and actor (d. 2018)
 * July 3
 * Dean Cook, British actor
 * Keisuke Minami, Japanese singer and actor
 * July 4
 * Mariana Rios, Brazilian actress and singer
 * Pei Yuwen, Chinese footballer
 * Lartiste, Moroccan-French singer and rapper
 * July 5
 * Judith Chemla, French actress
 * Stephanie McIntosh, Australian actress
 * Nick O'Malley, British musician
 * François Arnaud, French-Canadian stage and film actor
 * July 6
 * Matt Overton, American football player
 * Killian Scott, Irish actor
 * Ranveer Singh, Bollywood actor
 * D. Woods, American pop musician
 * July 7
 * Pong Escobal, Filipino basketball player
 * Langton Rusere, Zimbabwean cricket umpire
 * Zulkifli Che Ros, Malaysian male weightlifter
 * Seo Woo, Korean actress
 * July 8
 * Emanuele Abate, Italian athlete
 * Jason Day, Peruvian actor
 * July 9
 * Paweł Korzeniowski, Polish swimmer
 * Cathy Leung, Hong Kong singer
 * Ashley Young, English footballer
 * July 10
 * Mario Gómez, German footballer
 * Tidiane Sane, Senegalese footballer
 * Bastian Schulz, German footballer
 * Park Chu-young South Korean footballer
 * July 11
 * David Narváez and Sergio Narváez, Spanish footballers
 * Tobias Jesso Jr., Canadian musician
 * Lilian Marijnissen, Dutch politician
 * Ele Opeloge, Samoan weightlifter
 * Robert Adamson, American actor
 * July 12
 * Jasper Brinkley, American football player
 * Casper Brinkley, American football player
 * Adam Gregory, Canadian singer
 * Emil Hegle Svendsen, Norwegian biathlete
 * Luiz Ejlli, Albanian singer
 * Natasha Poly, Russian model
 * July 13
 * Charlotte Dujardin, English dressage rider
 * Guillermo Ochoa, Mexican footballer
 * Andrew Wolff, Filipino-British Rugby Player
 * July 14
 * Oleksandr Pyatnytsya, Ukrainian javelin thrower
 * Lee Kwang-soo, South Korean actor, entertainer and model
 * July 15
 * Pedro Carvalho, Portuguese actor
 * Agniya Kuznetsova, Russian actress
 * Chris Tiu, Filipino professional basketball player, TV host, commercial model, and politician
 * Crowd Lu, Taiwanese singer-songwriter and actor
 * Tomer Kapon, Israeli actor
 * July 16
 * Cha Ye-ryun, South Korean actress
 * Denis Tahirović, Croatian footballer
 * Yōko Hikasa, Japanese actress
 * Hiroyuki Onoue, Japanese actor
 * July 17
 * Tom Fletcher, British musician
 * Tom Cullen, Welsh actor, writer and director
 * Caitlin Van Zandt, American actress
 * July 18
 * José Carlos Júnior, Brazilian footballer
 * Hopsin, American rapper and record producer
 * James Norton, British actor
 * Chace Crawford, American actor
 * July 19 – LaMarcus Aldridge, American basketball player
 * July 20 – John Francis Daley, American television and film actor
 * July 21 – Guillaume Bastille, Canadian short track speed skater
 * July 22
 * Jessica Abbott, Australian swimmer
 * Blake Harrison, English actor
 * Ryan Dolan, Irish singer
 * Takudzwa Ngwenya, Zimbabwean-American rugby player
 * Akira Tozawa, Japanese wrestler
 * July 23
 * William Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcycle racer (d. 2018)
 * Scott Chandler, American football player
 * July 24 – Teagan Presley, American porn star
 * July 25
 * James Lafferty, American actor and athlete
 * Shantel VanSanten, American actress and model
 * Nelson Piquet Jr., Brazilian Formula One and NASCAR driver
 * July 27
 * Aljin Abella, Australian actor
 * Lou Taylor Pucci, American actor
 * July 28
 * Dustin Milligan, Canadian actor
 * Darren Murphy, Irish footballer
 * July 30
 * Aml Ameen, British actor
 * Elena Gheorghe, Romanian singer

August

 * August 2 – Davey Boy Smith Jr., British-Canadian professional wrestler
 * August 3 – Sonny Bill Williams, New Zealand Rugby League player
 * August 4 – Crystal Bowersox, American singer-songwriter
 * August 5 – Salomon Kalou, Ivorian footballer
 * August 7 – Rick Genest, Canadian artist, actor, and fashion model (d. 2018)
 * August 8 – Toby Flood, English rugby union player
 * August 9
 * Anna Kendrick, American actress
 * Hayley Peirsol, American swimmer
 * Filipe Luís, Brazilian footballer
 * August 10 – Jared Nathan, American child actor (d. 2006)
 * August 11
 * Asher Roth, American rapper
 * Jacqueline Fernandez, Sri Lankan-born Indian Bollywood actress
 * August 14
 * Ashlynn Brooke, American pornographic actress
 * Shea Weber, Canadian ice hockey player
 * August 15
 * Emily Kinney, American actress, singer, and songwriter
 * Nipsey Hussle, American rapper (d. 2019)
 * August 16
 * Agnes Bruckner, American actress
 * Arden Cho, American actress, singer and model
 * Cristin Milioti, American actress and singer
 * August 19 – David A. Gregory, American actor
 * August 20 – Brant Daugherty, American actor
 * August 21
 * Melissa M, French singer
 * Jake Pitts, American singer-songwriter (Black Veil Brides)
 * Laura Haddock, English actress
 * August 23 – Juss Haasma, Estonian actor
 * August 25
 * Andien, Indonesian jazz singer
 * Wynter Gordon, American pop/dance singer-songwriter
 * August 27
 * Alexandra Nechita, American artist
 * Kayla Ewell, American actress
 * Sean Foreman, American singer, songwriter and performer; member of electro hop group 3OH!3
 * August 28 – Ashlyne Huff, American singer-songwriter and dancer
 * August 29 – Jeffrey Licon, American actor
 * August 30
 * Eamon Sullivan, Australian swimmer
 * Leisel Jones, Australian swimmer
 * Richard Duffy, Wales international footballer
 * Éva Risztov, Hungarian Olympic Champion swimmer
 * August 31 – Mohammad bin Salman, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.

September

 * September 1
 * Lilan Bowden, American actress
 * Camile Velasco, Filipina-American actress
 * September 2
 * Allison Miller, American actress
 * Yani Gellman, Canadian/Australian film and television actor
 * September 3 – Yūki Kaji, Japanese voice actor
 * September 4
 * Morgan Garrett, American voice actress
 * Raúl Albiol, Spanish footballer
 * Ri Kwang-chon, North Korean footballer
 * Walid Mesloub, Algerian footballer
 * September 5 – Dilshad Vadsaria, American television actress
 * Oleksandr Akymenko, Ukrainian football striker
 * Jan Mazoch, Czech former ski jumper.
 * Dario Jertec, Croatian football midfielder
 * Weronika Deresz, Polish rower
 * September 6
 * Lauren Lapkus, American actress and comedian
 * Mitch Moreland, American baseball player
 * September 7
 * Radhika Apte, Indian film and theatre actress
 * Alyssa Diaz, American actress
 * Alyona Lanskaya, Belarusian singer
 * Rafinha, Brazilian football player
 * September 8
 * Justin Bradley, Canadian actor
 * Vanessa Baden, American actress
 * Denny Morrison, Canadian speed skater
 * September 9
 * Amy Manson, British actress
 * Luka Modrić, Croatian football player
 * J. R. Smith, American basketball player
 * September 10 – Elyse Levesque, Canadian film and television actress
 * September 13 – Emi Suzuki, Chinese-born Japanese female model
 * September 14
 * Aya Ueto, Japanese actress
 * Dilshad Vadsaria, American television actress
 * September 15
 * Kayden Kross, American porn actress
 * Iselin Steiro, Norwegian model
 * September 16
 * Madeline Zima, American actress
 * Max Minghella, English actor
 * Danny Fernandes, Canadian singer
 * September 17
 * Alexander Ovechkin, Russian hockey player
 * Jon Walker, American musician
 * September 19 – Song Joong-ki, South Korean actor, model and host
 * September 22 – Tatiana Maslany, Canadian actress
 * September 23
 * Tessanne Chin, Jamaican singer, winner of The Voice season 5
 * Maki Goto, Japanese singer and actress
 * Joba Chamberlain, American baseball player
 * September 24
 * Eric Adjetey Anang, Ghanaian sculptor
 * Kimberley Nixon, Welsh actress
 * Jessica Lucas, Canadian actress
 * September 26
 * Talulah Riley, English actress
 * Marcin Mroziński, Polish actor, singer and television presenter
 * September 28 – Shindong, Korean singer
 * September 29
 * Calvin Johnson, retired American football player and contestant on Dancing with the Stars season 23
 * Michelle Payne, Australian jockey
 * Dani Pedrosa, Spanish motorcycle racer
 * September 30 – T-Pain, American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer and actor

October

 * October 1
 * Sicily, American actress
 * Tirunesh Dibaba, Ethiopian long distance runner
 * Porcelain Black, American industrial pop singer-songwriter
 * Matt Healy, lead singer and guitarist of the band Rock Incorporated
 * October 3
 * Courtney Lee, American basketball player
 * Megumi Takamoto, Japanese voice actress and singer
 * October 5
 * Nathalie Kelley, Peruvian actress
 * Nicola Roberts, British singer
 * Brooke Valentine, American singer
 * October 7 – Evan Longoria, American professional baseball player
 * October 8
 * Jesse MacDonald, Leader of new-wave band "The Fruit Patrol", Lazy Rights Activist
 * Bruno Mars, American singer-songwriter and music producer
 * Kimberly Kevon Williams, American actress
 * Magda Apanowicz, Canadian actress
 * October 9 – Frankmusik, English electropop musician
 * October 10
 * Kyle Switzer, Canadian actor
 * Dominique Cornu, Belgian professional cyclist
 * Aaron Himelstein, American actor
 * October 11
 * Lee Min-hye, South Korean racing cyclist (d. 2018)
 * Margaret Berger, Norwegian electropop singer-songwriter
 * Michelle Trachtenberg, American actress
 * October 14
 * Daniel Clark, American-Canadian actor
 * Justin Forsett, American football player
 * Sherlyn, Mexican actress
 * October 16 – Casey Stoner, Australian motorcycle racer
 * October 18 – Iori Nomizu, Japanese voice actress, actress and singer
 * October 19 – RR Enriquez, Filipino model, television host and actress
 * October 20 – Jennifer Freeman, American actress
 * October 22
 * Manpei Takagi, Japanese actor
 * Shinpei Takagi, Japanese actor
 * October 23
 * Masiela Lusha, Albanian-American actress, poet, and humanitarian
 * Chris Neal, English footballer
 * October 24 – Wayne Rooney, English footballer
 * October 25
 * Ciara, African-American singer
 * Christopher Sean, American actor
 * John Robinson, American actor
 * October 26
 * Andrea Bargnani, Italian professional basketball player
 * Asin Thottumkal, Indian actress
 * October 27 – Troian Bellisario, American actress
 * October 28 – Anthony Fantano, American music critic
 * October 29 - Ximena Sariñana, Mexican singer and actress
 * October 29 – Janet Montgomery, English film and television actress
 * October 31 – Kether Donohue, American actress

November

 * November 2 – Josh Grelle, American voice actor
 * November 3
 * Tyler Hansbrough, American basketball player
 * Philipp Tschauner, German footballer
 * November 4 – Victoria Leigh Soto, American educator (d. 2012)
 * November 5 – Elizabeth Rice, American actress
 * November 7 – Paul Terry, English actor
 * November 8 – Jack Osbourne, English television personality
 * November 10
 * Giovonnie Samuels, American actress
 * Ricki-Lee Coulter, former Australian Idol contestant and singer
 * November 11
 * Remona Fransen, Dutch athlete
 * Raquel Guerra, Portuguese singer and actress
 * Kalan Porter, Canadian singer
 * Robin Uthappa, Indian cricketer
 * November 12 – Daria Bijak, German artistic gymnast
 * November 13
 * Rahul Kohli, English actor
 * Michael Bennett, American football player
 * Asdrúbal Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player
 * Simo-Pekka Olli, Finnish volleyball player
 * November 14 – Thomas Vermaelen, Belgian footballer
 * November 15
 * Lily Aldridge, American model
 * Casnel Bushay, Vincentian sprinter
 * Nick Fradiani, American singer
 * Jeffree Star, American musician and YouTuber
 * November 17 – Bea Saw, Filipino actress
 * November 20 – Dan Byrd, American actor
 * November 21 – Carly Rae Jepsen, Canadian singer-songwriter
 * November 22 – Asamoah Gyan, Ghanaian football player
 * November 23
 * Katie Crown, American actress
 * Ahn Hyun-Soo, South Korean short track skater
 * November 25 – Marcus Hellner, Swedish cross-country skier
 * November 27 – Alison Pill, Canadian actress
 * November 28
 * Nathan Keyes, American actor
 * Magdolna Rúzsa, Hungarian singer
 * Ryan Sampson, British actor
 * Mary Elizabeth Winstead, American actress and singer
 * Karen Gillan, Scottish actress and filmmaker
 * November 30
 * Luis Valbuena, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2018)
 * Kaley Cuoco, American actress
 * Chrissy Teigen, American model

December

 * December 1
 * John Coughlin, American pair skater (d. 2019)
 * Philip DeFranco, American YouTube star and video blogger
 * Janelle Monáe, African-American R&B/soul musician
 * Chanel Preston, American porn actress
 * December 2 – Amaury Leveaux, French swimmer
 * December 3
 * László Cseh, Hungarian swimmer
 * Amanda Seyfried, American actress, model and singer-songwriter
 * December 4
 * Stephen Dawson, Irish footballer
 * Krista Siegfrids, Finnish singer
 * December 5 – Frankie Muniz, American actor, musician, writer, producer, and racecar driver
 * December 6 – Dulce María, Mexican singer and actress
 * December 7 – Jon Moxley, American professional wrestler
 * December 8 – Dwight Howard, American basketball player
 * December 9 – Wil Besseling, Dutch golfer
 * December 10
 * Raven-Symoné, African-American actress and singer
 * Edmund Entin, American actor
 * Gary Entin, American actor
 * Meghan Linsey, American singer-songwriter
 * Matt Forté, American football player
 * December 11 – Samantha Steele, American sportscaster
 * December 12 – Juan Camilo Zúñiga, Colombian footballer
 * December 14 – Nonami Takizawa, Japanese actress
 * December 17 – Greg James, British radio DJ
 * December 18 – Hana Soukupová, Czech model
 * December 19
 * Christina Loukas, American diver
 * Lady Sovereign, British rapper
 * David Reale, Canadian actor
 * Gary Cahill, English footballer
 * December 21
 * James Stewart Jr., American motorcycle racer
 * Tom Sturridge, English actor
 * December 22 – Edurne, Spanish singer, actress, and TV presenter
 * December 23
 * Harry Judd, English drummer
 * Luke O'Loughlin, Australian actor
 * December 26
 * Yu Shirota, Japanese actor and singer
 * Beth Behrs, American actress
 * December 27
 * Paul Stastny, Canadian-American professional ice hockey player
 * Jessica Harmon, Canadian actress
 * Halley Gross, American screenwriter
 * December 28 – Taryn Terrell, American professional wrestler
 * December 29 – Alexa Ray Joel, American singer, songwriter and pianist
 * December 30 – Anna Wood, American actress
 * December 31 – Jonathan Horton, American gymnast

January

 * January 2 – Gabriel Elorde, Filipino professional boxer (b. 1935)
 * January 4 – Sir Brian Horrocks, British general (b. 1895)
 * January 5 – Robert L. Surtees, American cinematographer (b. 1906)
 * January 7
 * Ruth Godfrey, American actress (b. 1922)
 * Mary Hardy, Australian actress and comedian (b. 1931)
 * January 11 – Sir William McKell, 12th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1891)
 * January 13 – Carol Wayne, American actress (b. 1942)
 * January 14
 * Jetta Goudal, Dutch actress (b. 1891)
 * Anagarika Govinda, German buddhist lama (b. 1898)
 * January 18 – Mahmoud Mohammed Taha, Sudanese religious thinker (b. 1909)
 * January 20 – Gillis W. Long, American politician (b. 1923)
 * January 22
 * Sir Arthur Bryant, British historian (b. 1899)
 * Mikhail Gromov, Soviet aviator (b. 1899)
 * January 26 – Kenny Clarke, American jazz drummer and bandleader (b. 1914)
 * January 29
 * Georges Portmann, French physician (b. 1890)
 * Billy Cook, Australian jockey (b. 1910)
 * January 31 – Tatsuzō Ishikawa, Japanese novelist (b. 1905)

February

 * February 4 – Jesse Hibbs, American film director (b. 1906)
 * February 6 – Neil McCarthy, English actor (b. 1932)
 * February 8
 * William Lyons, British automobile engineer and designer (b. 1901)
 * Marvin Miller, American actor (b. 1913)
 * February 11 – Henry Hathaway, American film director (b. 1898)
 * February 12 – Nicholas Colasanto, American actor (b. 1924)
 * February 18 – Randolph E. Haugan, American author, editor and publisher (b. 1902)
 * February 20 – Clarence Nash, American actor (b. 1904)
 * February 21
 * Ina Claire, American actress (b. 1893)
 * Louis Hayward, British actor (b. 1909)
 * John G. Trump, American electrical engineer, inventor, and physicist (b. 1907)
 * February 22 – Efrem Zimbalist, Russian-American violinist (b. 1889)
 * February 26 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
 * February 27
 * Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., American politician (b. 1902)
 * Iain Moncreiffe, Scottish genealogist and Officer of Arms (b. 1919)
 * J. Pat O'Malley, English actor (b. 1904)

March

 * March 3 – Iosif Shklovsky, Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1916)
 * March 7 – George Schick, Czechoslovakian conductor and music educator (b. 1908)
 * March 8 – Edward Andrews, American actor (b. 1914)
 * March 10
 * Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet politician, Leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1911)
 * Bob Nieman, American baseball player (b. 1927)
 * March 11
 * Tom Adams, Barbadosian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Barbados (b. 1931)
 * Nazem Akkari, Lebanese politician, 19th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1902)
 * March 12 – Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American conductor (b. 1899)
 * March 13 – Mabel Alvarez, American painter (b. 1891)
 * March 15 – Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian (b. 1921)
 * March 16 – Roger Sessions, American composer (b. 1896)
 * March 21 – Sir Michael Redgrave, British actor (b. 1908)
 * March 23
 * Doctor Richard Beeching, Chairman of British Rail (b. 1913)
 * Zoot Sims, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1925)
 * March 28 – Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter (b. 1887)
 * March 29
 * The Singing Nun, Belgian nun and singer (b. 1933)
 * Gerhard Stock, German Olympic athlete (b. 1911)
 * March 30 – Shizuko Kasagi, Japanese singer (b. 1914)
 * March 31 – Michel Georges-Michel, French painter, journalist, novelist (b. 1883)

April

 * April 4 – Kate Roberts, Welsh-language author (b. 1891)
 * April 5 – Paul Hugh Emmett, American chemical engineer (b. 1900)
 * April 6 – Terence Sanders, British Olympic rower – coxless fours (b. 1901)
 * April 7 – Carl Schmitt, German jurist, political theorist and professor of law (b. 1888)
 * April 8 – J. Fred Coots, American songwriter (b. 1897)
 * April 10 – Alfredo Duhalde, Chilean politician (b. 1898)
 * April 11 – Enver Hoxha, Albanian politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1908)
 * April 14 – Noele Gordon, British actress (b. 1919)
 * April 15 – Jack Medica, American Olympic swimmer (b. 1914)
 * April 16 – Scott Brady, American actor (b. 1924)
 * April 17 – Evadne Price, Australian-British writer, actress and astrologer (b. 1888)
 * April 18 – Gertrude Caton–Thompson, English archaeologist (b. 1888)
 * April 19 – Sergei Aleksandrovich Tokarev, Russian ethnologist (b. 1899)
 * April 21
 * John Welsh, Irish actor (b. 1914)
 * Tancredo Neves, Brazilian elected president (b. 1910)
 * April 22 – Paul H. Emmett, American chemical engineer (b. 1900)
 * April 23 – Kent Smith, American actor (b. 1907)
 * April 24 – Mildred W. Pelzer, American artist (b. 1889)
 * April 25 – Richard Haydn, English actor (b. 1905)
 * April 26 – Albert Maltz, American screenwriter, one of the Hollywood Ten (b. 1908)

May

 * May 1 – Denise Robins, (akas: Francesca Wright, Ashley French, Harriet Gray, Julia Kane) British romance novelist (b. 1897)
 * May 4 – Clarence Wiseman, the 10th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1907)
 * May 5 – Sir Donald Bailey, British civil engineer (b. 1901)
 * May 6
 * Pete Desjardins, American Olympic diver (b. 1907)
 * Julie Vega, Filipino child actress and singer (b. 1968)
 * May 7 – Dawn Addams, British actress (b. 1930)
 * May 8
 * Theodore Sturgeon, American writer (b. 1918)
 * Dolph Sweet, American actor (b. 1920)
 * May 9 – Edmond O'Brien, American actor (b. 1915)
 * May 10
 * Tahar Ben Ammar, Tunisian politician, 8th Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1889)
 * Florizel von Reuter, American violinist and composer (b. 1890)
 * May 12 – Jean Dubuffet, French artist (b. 1901)
 * May 13
 * Selma Diamond, American actress (b. 1920)
 * Leatrice Joy, American actress (b. 1893)
 * May 15 – Rama Devi, Indian nationalist leader (b. 1889)
 * May 16
 * Margaret Hamilton, American actress (b. 1902)
 * Shirley Ximena Hopper Russell, American artist (b. 1886)
 * May 17 – Andrej Bicenko, Russian fresco painter (b. 1886)
 * May 19 – W. H. Diddle, American amateur golfer (b. 1882)
 * May 20 – Ben Hall, American actor (b. 1899)
 * May 22
 * Charles Murphy, American architect. (b. 1890)
 * Wolfgang Reitherman, German animator, director and producer (b. 1909)
 * May 28 – Roy Plomley, English radio broadcaster, producer, playwright and novelist (b. 1914)
 * May 30 – George K. Arthur, English actor and producer (b. 1899)

June

 * June 1 – Eugène Séguy, French entomologist (b. 1890)
 * June 5 – Lord George-Brown, British politician (b. 1914)
 * June 6
 * Norman W. Walker, British businessman (b. 1886)
 * Vladimir Jankélévitch, French philosopher and musicologist (b. 1903)
 * June 7
 * Georgia Hale, American actress (b. 1905)
 * Gordon Rollings, British actor (b. 1926)
 * June 9
 * Clifford Evans, British actor (b. 1912)
 * Matsutarō Kawaguchi, Japanese novelist (b. 1899)
 * June 10 – George Chandler, American actor (b. 1898)
 * June 11 – Karen Ann Quinlan, American right-to-die cause célèbre (b. 1954)
 * June 12 – Czesław Marek, Polish composer and pianist (b. 1891)
 * June 15
 * Percy Fender, English cricketer (b. 1892)
 * Andy Stanfield, American Olympic athlete (b. 1927)
 * June 17 – George Jackson, English footballer (b. 1893)
 * Either June 18 or June 19 - Bonnie Nettles, American religious leader (b. 1927)
 * June 21 – Tage Erlander, Swedish politician, 25th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1901)
 * June 27 – Elias Sarkis, Lebanese lawyer, 27th President of Lebanon (b. 1924)
 * June 28 – James Craig, American actor (b. 1912)
 * June 30 – Haruo Remeliik, Palauan politician, 1st President of Palau (b. 1933)

July

 * July 1 – Pauli Murray, American civil rights activist, lawyer, author and priest (b. 1910)
 * July 2
 * David Purley, British race car driver (b. 1945)
 * Hector Nicol, Scottish entertainer (b. 1920)
 * July 4 – Jan de Quay, Dutch politician and psychologist, 31st Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1901)
 * July 8
 * Phil Foster, American actor (b. 1913)
 * Simon Kuznets, American economist (b. 1901)
 * July 9
 * Jimmy Kinnon, Scottish founder of Narcotics Anonymous (b. 1911)
 * Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1896)
 * July 14 – Lluís Solé, Spanish geographer and academic (b. 1908)
 * July 16 – Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
 * July 17 – Margo, Mexican-born American actress (b. 1917)
 * July 19
 * Janusz Zajdel, Polish writer (b. 1938)
 * Louisa Ghijs, Belgian stage actress and wife of Johannes Heesters (b. 1902)
 * July 21 – Alvah Cecil Bessie, American screenwriter, one of the Hollywood Ten (b. 1904)
 * July 22 – Matti Järvinen, Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1909)
 * July 23
 * Kay Kyser, American bandleader (b. 1905)
 * Mickey Shaughnessy, American actor (b. 1920)
 * July 25 – Grant Williams, American actor (b. 1931)
 * July 26 – Grace Albee, American printmaker and wood engraver. (b. 1890)
 * July 27 – John Scarne, American magician and card expert (b. 1903)

August

 * August 1 – D. H. Turner, British art historian and museum curator (b. 1931)
 * August 2 – Frank Faylen, American actor (b. 1905)
 * August 5 – Arnold Horween, Harvard Crimson and NFL football player (b. 1898)
 * August 6
 * Forbes Burnham, Guyanese political leader, 1st Prime Minister of Guyana and 2nd President of Guyana (b. 1923)
 * John Harmon, American actor (b. 1905)
 * August 8 – Louise Brooks, American actress (b. 1906)
 * August 10 – Kenny Baker, American actor and singer (b. 1912)
 * August 12
 * Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer (b. 1941)
 * Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (b. 1951)
 * August 14 – Gale Sondergaard, American actress (b. 1899)
 * August 15 – Lester Cole, American screenwriter, one of the Hollywood Ten (b. 1904)
 * August 22 – Paul Peter Ewald, German-born American crystallographer and physicist (b. 1888)
 * August 24 – Morrie Ryskind, American dramatist (b. 1895)
 * August 25
 * Paul Harris, American actor (b. 1917)
 * Samantha Smith, American schoolgirl activist (b. 1972)
 * August 28 – Ruth Gordon, American actress, screenwriter, and playwright (b. 1896)
 * August 29
 * Evelyn Ankers, British actress (b. 1918)
 * Patrick Barr, British actor (b. 1908)
 * August 30 – Taylor Caldwell, Anglo-American writer (b. 1900)
 * August 31 – Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)

September

 * September 1 – Stefan Bellof, race car driver and 1984 World SportsCars (Group C) Champion (b. 1957)
 * September 4
 * Isabel Jeans, British actress (b. 1891)
 * George O'Brien, American actor (b. 1899)
 * September 6
 * Little Brother Montgomery, American musician (b. 1906)
 * Rodney Robert Porter, English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1917)
 * September 7
 * Bruiser Kinard, American football player (Brooklyn Dodgers) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1914)
 * José Zabala-Santos, Filipino cartoonist (b. 1911)
 * George Pólya, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1887)
 * September 8 – John Franklin Enders, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1897)
 * September 9 – Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
 * September 10
 * Ernst Öpik, Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1893)
 * Jock Stein, Scottish football player and manager (b. 1922)
 * September 11
 * William Alwyn, English composer (b. 1905)
 * Henrietta Barnett, British Women's Royal Air Force officer (b. 1905)
 * Masako Natsume, Japanese actress (b. 1957)
 * September 14
 * Julian Beck, American actor (b. 1925)
 * John Holt, American writer and educator (b. 1923)
 * September 17 – Laura Ashley, Welsh designer (b. 1925)
 * September 19 – Italo Calvino, Italian writer (b. 1923)
 * September 22 – Axel Springer, German journalist and the founder and owner of the Axel Springer AG (b. 1912)
 * September 27 – Lloyd Nolan, American actor (b. 1902)
 * September 30
 * Floyd Crosby, American cinematographer (b. 1899)
 * Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist, creator of the Richter magnitude scale (b. 1900)
 * Simone Signoret, French actress (b. 1921)

October

 * October 1 – E. B. White, American writer (b. 1899)
 * October 2
 * Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)
 * George Savalas, American actor (b. 1924)
 * October 4 – Franklin Merrell-Wolff, American philosopher (b. 1887)
 * October 5 – Abdus Sattar, Bangladeshi statesman, 8th President of Bangladesh (b. 1906)
 * October 6
 * John W. Snyder, American businessman and Cabinet Secretary (b. 1895)
 * Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (b. 1921)
 * October 10
 * Alexander Buchanan, Australian politician (b. 1910)
 * Yul Brynner, Russian actor and performer (b. 1920)
 * Orson Welles, American actor and director (b. 1915)
 * October 12
 * Johnny Olson, American game show announcer (b. 1910)
 * Ricky Wilson, American guitarist (b. 1953)
 * October 14 – Emil Gilels, Soviet pianist (b. 1916)
 * October 17 – Abdelmunim Al-Rifai, Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1917)
 * October 21
 * Masuiyama Daishirō I, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1919)
 * Dan White, American politician and murderer (Moscone–Milk assassinations) (b. 1946)
 * October 22 – Thomas Townsend Brown, American inventor (b. 1905)
 * October 24 – László Bíró, Hungarian inventor of the ballpoint pen (b. 1899)
 * October 25 – Morton Downey, American singer (b. 1901)
 * October 29 – John Davis Lodge, American actor and politician (b. 1903)
 * October 31 – Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor (b. 1913)

November

 * November 1
 * Quick Draw Rick McGraw, American professional wrestler (b. 1955)
 * Ōuchiyama Heikichi, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1926)
 * Phil Silvers, American entertainer (b. 1911)
 * November 2 – William Lummis, British military historian (b. 1886)
 * November 4 – Cus D'Amato legendary boxing trainer who was a mentor to hall of famer boxers Mike Tyson, Floyd Patterson and José Torres.
 * November 5
 * Spencer W. Kimball, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1895)
 * Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist (b. 1898)
 * November 8 – Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgian cyclist (b. 1899)
 * November 9 – Marie-Georges Pascal, French actress (b. 1946)
 * November 11
 * James Hanley, British novelist, playwright and writer (b. 1897)
 * Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish Professional Hockey goaltender (b. 1959)
 * November 13
 * William Pereira, American architect (b. 1909)
 * George Robert Vincent, American sound recording pioneer (b. 1898)
 * November 16
 * Stuart Chase, American economist (b. 1888)
 * John Sparkman, American politician (b. 1899)
 * November 17
 * Lon Nol, Cambodian general and statesman, 32nd Prime Minister of Cambodia and 7th President of Khmer Republic (b. 1913)
 * Jimmy Ritz, American actor (b. 1904)
 * November 19
 * Juan Arvizu, Mexican operatic tenor and bolero vocalist (b. 1900)
 * Stepin Fetchit, American actor (b. 1902)
 * November 24 – Big Joe Turner, American blues singer (b. 1911)
 * November 25 – Geoffrey Grigson, British poet, writer, critic (b. 1905)
 * November 27
 * Fernand Braudel, French historian (b. 1902)
 * Rendra Karno, Indonesian actor (b. 1920)
 * November 28 – Johnny McNally, American football player, member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1903)

December

 * December 2 – Philip Larkin, English poet and novelist (b. 1922)
 * December 6
 * Burleigh Grimes, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1893)
 * Burr Tillstrom, American puppeteer (b. 1917)
 * December 7
 * Robert Graves, English writer (b. 1895)
 * Potter Stewart, American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1915)
 * December 8 – Bill Wambsganss, second baseman in Major League Baseball (b. 1894)
 * December 12
 * Anne Baxter, American actress (b. 1923)
 * Ian Stewart, Scottish rock musician (b. 1938)
 * December 13 – Paul Caraway, American general and High Commissioner (b. 1905)
 * December 14
 * Catherine Doherty, American Roman Catholic social worker (b. 1896)
 * Roger Maris, American baseball player (New York Yankees) (b. 1934)
 * December 15
 * Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, 1st Prime Minister of Mauritius (b. 1900)
 * Carlos Romulo, Filipino diplomat (b. 1899)
 * December 16 – William H. Pettit, Christian missionary to Bangladesh (b. 1885)
 * December 21 – Kamatari Fujiwara, Japanese actor (b. 1905)
 * December 22 – D. Boon, American musician (b. 1958)
 * December 23
 * Ferhat Abbas, Algerian nationalist (b. 1899)
 * Prince Bira, Prince of Siam and Formula One driver (b. 1914)
 * December 24
 * Kouzou Sasaki, Japanese politician (b. 1900)
 * Erich Schaedler, Scottish footballer (b. 1949)
 * December 26 – Dian Fossey, American biologist (b. 1932)
 * December 27
 * Harry Hopman, Australian tennis player and coach (b. 1906)
 * Harold Whitlock, British Olympic athlete (b. 1903)
 * December 28 – Renato Castellani, Italian director (b. 1913)
 * December 30 – Bob Pearson, British variety performer with his brother Alf as half of Bob and Alf Pearson (b. 1907)
 * December 31
 * Ricky Nelson, American actor and musician (b. 1940)
 * Sam Spiegel, Polish-born film producer (b. 1903)

Date unknown

 * Andrej Bicenko, Russian fresco painter and muralist (b. 1886)
 * Kaare Bratung, Norwegian cartoonist (b. 1906)
 * Hamlet Gonashvili, Georgian singer (b. 1928)

Nobel Prizes

 * Physics – Klaus von Klitzing
 * Chemistry – Herbert A. Hauptman, Jerome Karle
 * Literature – Claude Simon
 * Peace – International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
 * Economics – Franco Modigliani
 * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine – Michael Stuart Brown, Joseph L. Goldstein

January



 * 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, his son Akihito is enthroned as the 125th Emperor of Japan immediately, followed by the change in the era name from Shōwa 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 – 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.
 * January 16 – CityRail begins inter-city railway passenger services in New South Wales. It remains operational until its dissolution in 2013.
 * 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 30 – Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney shuffles his cabinet, appointing six new ministers and reassigning the responsibilities of nineteen others.

February

 * 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.
 * February 2
 * 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.
 * February 3
 * 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.
 * February 7
 * The People's National Party, led by Michael Manley, wins the 1989 Jamaican general election.
 * February 10
 * 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).
 * February 14
 * 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.
 * February 15
 * 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.
 * February 17
 * 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.
 * February 24
 * 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



 * March – Poland begins to liberalise its currency exchange in a move towards capitalism.
 * 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.
 * 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 km.
 * 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 oilbbl 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



 * 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.
 * 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 4 (Polish Round Table Agreement), which initiated the 1989 revolution and the overthrow of communism in Central Europe.
 * 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.
 * April 15
 * The death of Hu Yaobang in China sparks the beginning of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.
 * 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 in Beijing.
 * 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.
 * 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, succeeding Baginda Almutawakkil Alallah Sultan Iskandar Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Ismail.
 * 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 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.

May

 * May
 * Transhumanism – Genetic modification of adult human beings is tried for the first time, a gene tagging trial.
 * The Soviet Union issues its first Visa card in a step to digitalise their banking system.
 * 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.
 * May 2
 * The first crack in the Iron Curtain: Hungary dismantles 240 km 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.
 * 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, ending the Sino-Soviet split.
 * 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.
 * 1989 Tiananmen Square protests: Zhao Ziyang meets the demonstrators in Tiananmen Square.
 * Ciriaco De Mita resigns as Prime Minister of Italy.
 * May 20 – 1989 Tiananmen Square protests: The Chinese government declares martial law in Beijing.
 * May 22 – The Nordland Days in Leningrad region (Leningrad Oblast) open.
 * May 24 – A terrorist organization, Zarate Willka Armed Forces of Liberation, assassinates two missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as they return to their apartment, in La Paz, Bolivia.
 * May 25 – The Calgary Flames defeat the Montreal Canadiens four games to two to win the franchise's first Stanley Cup.
 * 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.
 * 1989 Tiananmen Square protests: The 10 m 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.

June



 * 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 – June 4
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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 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.
 * 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

 * 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 14–16 – 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.
 * 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



 * 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.
 * F. W. de Klerk becomes the seventh and final State President of South Africa.
 * 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 dredger 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.
 * 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.
 * 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

 * September 6
 * 1989 South African general election, 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.
 * September 14
 * 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.
 * September 19
 * 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.
 * September 22
 * 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.
 * September 23
 * A cease-fire in the Lebanese Civil War stops the violence that had killed 900 people since March.
 * Nintendo Company Ltd. celebrates its 100th anniversary.
 * September 26 – Vietnam announces that it has withdrawn the last of its troops from the State of Cambodia, ending an eleven-year occupation.
 * September 30
 * 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



 * October – Cold War – Perestroika – Nathan's Famous opens a hot dog stand in Moscow.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * October 17 – The 6.9 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.
 * 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
 * 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.

November



 * November – First commercial dial-up Internet connection in North America is made, by The World STD.
 * 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.
 * November 3 – East German refugees arrive at the West German town of Hof after being allowed through Czechoslovakia.
 * November 4 – Typhoon Gay devastates Thailand's Chumphon Province.
 * November 4 – Alexanderplatz demonstration in East Berlin. Half a million people protest against communist rule in East Germany.
 * November 6 – The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is founded.
 * November 7
 * 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.
 * November 9
 * Cold War and Fall of the Berlin Wall: Günter Schabowski accidentally states in a live broadcast press conference that new rules for traveling from East Germany to West Germany will be put in effect "immediately". East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to travel freely to West Germany for the first time in decades (November 17 celebrates Germans 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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 – 1989 Uruguayan general election: 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



 * 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.
 * The Simpsons first episode premiered on Fox.
 * 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 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.
 * December 31 – Poland's president signs the Balcerowicz Plan, ending the Communist system in Poland in favor of a capitalist system and Polish involvement in the Warsaw Pact.

Date unknown

 * 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 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 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.
 * N.W.A are the first gangsta rap group to sell 1,000,000 copies of an album with their controversial 1988 debut album Straight Outta Compton.
 * The South African military dismantles its last nuclear weapons.

January

 * 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 singer
 * 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 swimmer
 * Emily Meade, American actress
 * Heo Sol-ji, South Korean singer
 * 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 actor
 * January 15
 * Alexei Cherepanov, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2008)
 * Ryan Corr, Australian actor
 * Keiffer Hubbell, American ice dancer
 * Tasha Reign, American pornographic actress, nude model, stripper, producer, and sex columnist
 * Ronny Vencatachellum, Mauritian swimmer
 * January 16 – Yvonne Zima, American actress
 * January 19
 * Yani Tseng, Taiwanese golfer
 * Kelly Marie Tran, American actress
 * January 20
 * Kim Bui, German artistic gymnast
 * Nadia Di Cello, Argentine actress
 * January 21
 * Murilo de Almeida, Brazilian-East Timorese footballer
 * 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 actress
 * January 26
 * Hannah Arterton, English actress
 * Emily Hughes, American figure skater
 * January 27
 * Daisy Lowe, British fashion model
 * Ricky van Wolfswinkel, Dutch footballer
 * January 28 – Bruno Massot, French-born German pair skater
 * January 30
 * Jahvid Best, American football player
 * Lee Gun-woo, South Korean singer
 * Khleo Thomas, American actor and rapper

February

 * February 3 – Ryne Sanborn, American actor
 * February 4 – Larissa Ramos, Brazilian beauty pageant 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
 * Maxime Dufour-Lapointe, Canadian freestyle skier
 * Wu Chia-ching, Taiwanese pool player
 * February 11
 * Jesse Rath, Canadian actor
 * Lovi Poe, Filipina actress
 * February 13
 * Carly McKillip, Canadian actress
 * Rodrigo Possebon, Brazilian footballer
 * Katie Volding, American actress
 * February 15
 * Sinethemba Jantjie, South African footballer (d. 2019)
 * 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
 * Jung Joon-young, Korean actor and singer
 * February 23 – Chris Conte, American football player
 * February 24
 * Trace Cyrus, American musician
 * Daniel Kaluuya, English actor
 * Kosta Koufos, Greek-born American basketball player
 * 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

 * March 1
 * Emma, Australian professional wrestler
 * Daniella Monet, American actress and singer
 * Carlos Vela, Mexican footballer
 * March 2
 * Jean-Frédéric Chapuis, French Olympic freestyle skier
 * Nathalie Emmanuel, English actress
 * Toby Alderweireld, Belgian football player
 * 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 – Taeyeon, South Korean singer
 * 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
 * Shinji Kagawa, Japanese football player
 * Mason Musso, American musician, singer and songwriter
 * March 18
 * Francesco Checcucci, Italian footballer
 * Lily Collins, British-born American actress
 * Kana Nishino, Japanese singer-songwriter
 * March 19 – Craig Lamar Traylor, American actor
 * March 20 – Fei Fei Sun, Chinese model
 * March 21
 * Jordi Alba, Spanish professional footballer
 * Takeru Satoh, Japanese actor
 * Rochelle Wiseman, British singer
 * 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
 * Aly Michalka, American actress and singer
 * Francis Allen Handig, Filipino philosopher
 * Scott Sinclair, English footballer
 * March 27 – Stuart Edge, American YouTube personality
 * March 29 – Arnold Peralta, Honduran footballer (d. 2015)
 * March 31 – Liu Zige, Chinese swimmer

April

 * April 2 – Liis Lass, Estonian actress
 * April 3 – Ankit Narang, Indian actor
 * April 4 – Chris Herd, Australian footballer
 * April 5 – Lily James, British actress
 * April 6 – Gabrielle Scollay, Australian actress
 * April 8
 * Nicholas Megalis, American singer-songwriter
 * Hitomi Takahashi, Japanese singer
 * Gabriella Wilde, English actress and model
 * 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
 * Alia Shawkat, American actress
 * April 20
 * Alex Black, American actor
 * Nina Davuluri, American public speaker and advocate
 * 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 24 – Ian Matos, Brazilian diver
 * April 25
 * Emanuela de Paula, Brazilian model
 * Michael van Gerwen, Dutch darts player
 * Aysel Teymurzadeh, Azerbaijani pop singer
 * April 26
 * Luke Bracey, Australian actor
 * Daesung, South Korean singer
 * April 27
 * Lars Bender, German footballer
 * Sven Bender, German footballer
 * Martha Hunt, American model
 * April 28 – Kim Sung-kyu, South Korean singer and dancer
 * April 29 – Foxes, British singer-songwriter

May

 * 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
 * Nora Arnezeder, French actress
 * Katy B, British singer
 * Nyle DiMarco, American model and activist
 * May 9 – Shane van Gisbergen, New Zealander race car driver
 * May 10 – Lindsey Shaw, American actress
 * May 11
 * Cam Newton, American football player
 * Prince Royce, American singer and songwriter
 * Giovani dos Santos, Mexican footballer
 * 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
 * Alexandra Park, Australian actress
 * Alina Talay, Belarusian 100 metres hurdler
 * May 15 – Sunny Lee, American-born Korean singer
 * May 16
 * Pääru Oja, Estonian actor
 * Behati Prinsloo, Namibian fashion model
 * May 17
 * Olivia Luccardi, American actress and producer
 * Tessa Virtue, Canadian ice dancer
 * May 18
 * Fatima Ali, Pakistani-born American chef (d. 2019)
 * Shreevats Goswami, Indian cricketer
 * May 19 – Gaelan Connell, American actor and musician
 * 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 soccer player
 * Daul Kim, South Korean model (d. 2009)
 * Marco Reus, German football player
 * Chase Stanley, Australian rugby player
 * Sean Thornley, British tennis player

June

 * 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
 * Jillette Johnson, American singer
 * Imogen Poots, British actress
 * 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
 * Minami Tsuda, Japanese voice actress
 * Amaury Vassili, French operatic tenor
 * 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 and 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
 * June 23 – Lauren Bennett, British singer, dancer, painter, photographer and model
 * June 25 – Chris Brochu, American actor and singer-songwriter
 * June 26 – Magid Magid, Somali-born British politician and activist, Member of the European Parliament
 * June 27
 * Kimiko Glenn, American actress and singer
 * Matthew Lewis, British actor
 * Bruna Tenório, Brazilian supermodel
 * June 28
 * Andrew Fifita, Tongan rugby league footballer
 * David Fifita, Tongan rugby league footballer
 * 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

 * July 1 – Daniel Ricciardo, Australian Formula 1 driver
 * July 2
 * Dev, American singer
 * Alex Morgan, American soccer player
 * July 3 – Elle King, American singer, songwriter and actress
 * July 4 – Yoon Doo-joon, Korean singer
 * July 5 – Sean O'Pry, American model
 * July 7
 * Jamie Johnston, Canadian actor and singer-songwriter
 * Kim Bum, South Korean actor
 * July 8
 * Dmitry Abakumov, Russian football player
 * Yarden Gerbi, Israeli world champion judoka
 * Ahmad Fakri Saarani, Malaysian footballer
 * July 9 – Kaysar Dadour, Syrian-Brazilian actor
 * July 10 – Fazrul Hazli, Malaysian footballer
 * July 11
 * Shareeka Epps, American actress
 * David Henrie, American actor and director
 * Martin Klizan, Slovak tennis player
 * 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
 * Kim Woo-bin, South Korean model and actor
 * Carlito Olivero, American singer
 * July 18
 * Jamie Benn, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Yohan Mollo, French footballer
 * July 20 – Rayver Cruz, Filipino actor
 * July 21
 * Jasmine Cephas Jones, American actress
 * Rory Culkin, American actor
 * Chris Gunter, Welsh footballer
 * Juno Temple, British actress
 * Jamie Waylett, British actor
 * Narcissa Wright, American speedrunner
 * July 22
 * Keegan Allen, American actor
 * Trent Boult, New Zealand cricketer
 * Kamal G, Indian film director, film editor and film producer
 * Baltasar Breki Samper, Icelandic actor
 * July 23
 * Daniel Radcliffe, British actor
 * KJ Wright, American football player
 * Zhong An Qi, Taiwanese singer
 * Donald Young, American tennis player
 * July 25
 * Andrew Caldwell, American actor
 * Noel Callahan, Canadian actor
 * July 27 – Charlotte Arnold, Canadian actress
 * July 28
 * Adrien Broner, African-American professional boxer
 * Felipe Kitadai, Brazilian Olympic medalist judoka
 * Amy Yang, South Korean golfer
 * July 29
 * Hona Costello, American singer
 * Jake Smollett, American actor
 * July 30 – Aleix Espargaró, Spanish Grand prix motorcycle racer
 * July 31
 * Victoria Azarenka, Belarusian tennis player
 * Alexis Knapp, American actress and singer
 * Marshall Williams, Canadian actor
 * Jessica Williams, American actress
 * Zelda Williams, American actress

August

 * August 1
 * Madison Bumgarner, American baseball player
 * Tiffany Hwang, American-born Korean singer
 * 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
 * Shanshan Feng, Chinese golfer
 * Mathieu Manset, French footballer
 * Jessica Nigri, American model and actress
 * Nina Radojčić, Serbian singer
 * 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
 * Meredith Deane, American actress
 * Lucy Dixon, British actress
 * Jason Heyward, American baseball player
 * Stefano Okaka, Italian footballer
 * August 10
 * Sam Gagner, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Ben Sahar, Israeli footballer
 * Brenton Thwaites, Australian actor
 * August 11
 * Junior Heffernan, Irish cyclist and triathlete (d. 2013)
 * Sebastian Huke, German footballer
 * Emma Wu, Taiwanese singer and actress
 * August 14
 * Ander Herrera, Spanish professional footballer
 * Kyle Turris, Canadian ice hockey player
 * August 15
 * Belinda, Mexican singer and actress
 * Joe Jonas, American musician, actor, and singer
 * Denise Oliver, Canadian voice actress
 * Carlos PenaVega, American actor, dancer and singer
 * August 18 – Anna Akana, American actress, filmmaker, author, and comedian
 * 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
 * Juliana Cannarozzo, American figure skater
 * Daniel Tovar, Mexican actor
 * August 28
 * Valtteri Bottas, Finnish Formula One driver
 * Cassadee Pope, American singer-songwriter
 * August 30 – Bebe Rexha, American singer-songwriter

September

 * September 1
 * Bill Kaulitz, German singer
 * Jefferson Montero, Ecuadorian footballer
 * Daniel Sturridge, English footballer
 * September 2
 * Alexandre Pato, Brazilian footballer
 * Zedd, record producer, DJ, musician, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter
 * 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
 * Tony Finau, American golfer
 * Logan Henderson, American actor, dancer, and singer
 * Jonathon Simmons, American basketball player
 * September 15 – Steliana Nistor, Romanian artistic gymnast
 * September 19 – Tyreke Evans, American basketball player, 2010 NBA Rookie of the Year
 * September 20 – Andrej Martin, Slovak tennis player
 * September 21
 * Jason Derulo, American urban singer and actor
 * Emma Watkins, Australian entertainer, singer and actress
 * September 22
 * Hyoyeon Kim, Korean singer
 * Sabine Lisicki, German tennis player
 * September 23
 * A.J. Applegate, American pornographic actress
 * Dani Daniels, American pornographic actress
 * Sui He, Chinese model
 * Brandon Jennings, American basketball player
 * Kevin Norwood, American football player
 * Mara Scherzinger, German actress
 * September 24 – Pia Wurtzbach, German-Filipina actress and model
 * September 25 – Jordan Gavaris, Canadian actor
 * September 26
 * Emma Rigby, British actress
 * Kieran Gibbs, English footballer
 * Jonny Bairstow, English cricketer
 * September 27
 * Robi Domingo, Filipino actor
 * Rumi Ōkubo, Japanese voice actress
 * Park Tae-hwan, South Korean swimmer
 * September 29 – Theo Adams, British performance artist

October

 * October 1 – Brie Larson, American actress
 * October 2
 * Janine Gutierrez, Filipino actress
 * Brad Peltz, American professional ice hockey player
 * 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
 * Tomoyuki Sugano, Japanese baseball pitcher
 * Michelle Wie, American golf player
 * October 12 – Paulo Henrique Ganso, Brazilian football player
 * October 13
 * Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, American politician and activist
 * 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
 * Nikolija Jovanović, Serbian singer and dancer
 * Janine Tugonon, Filipina beauty queen
 * October 20 – Jess Glynne, British singer
 * October 22 – JPEGMAFIA, American rapper
 * 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
 * PewDiePie, 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

 * November 2 – Katelyn Tarver, American singer, songwriter, and actress
 * November 3
 * Paula DeAnda, Mexican-born American singer
 * Joyce Jonathan, French singer
 * Kim Taek-yong, South Korean professional gamer
 * Elliott Tittensor, British actor
 * Luke Tittensor, British actor
 * 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
 * Thiago de Los Reyes, Brazilian actor
 * Adam Rippon, American figure skater
 * Reina Tanaka, Japanese rock singer
 * November 14
 * Emis Killa, Italian rapper
 * Jake Livermore, English footballer
 * November 15 – Jona Viray, Filipina singer
 * November 19
 * Caitlynne Medrek, Canadian actress and voice actress
 * Tyga, American rapper
 * November 20
 * Cody Linley, American actor
 * Sergei Polunin, Ukrainian ballet dancer
 * November 21 – Fabian Delph, English footballer
 * November 22
 * Alden Ehrenreich, American actor
 * Candice Glover, American singer
 * November 24 – Jordan Witzigreuter, American singer-songwriter
 * November 25 – Tom Dice, Belgian singer-songwriter
 * November 26 – Angeline Quinto, Filipina singer and actress
 * November 27
 * Loveli, Japanese model
 * Freddie Sears, English footballer
 * November 28
 * Claire Brookin, British darts player
 * Ayesha Gwilt, British actress
 * Martin Hare, British handball player

December

 * 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, Korean singer
 * 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 singer
 * December 13
 * Taylor Swift, American pop and country singer-songwriter and record producer
 * Katherine Schwarzenegger, American Author
 * December 14 – Onew, Korean singer
 * December 15
 * Nichole Bloom, American actress and model
 * Lady Leshurr, English rapper, singer and producer
 * December 18 – Ashley Benson, American actress
 * December 19
 * Valdimar Bergstað, Icelandic horse rider
 * Yong Jun-hyung, Korean singer
 * December 21 – Tamannaah, Indian model and actress
 * December 22
 * Logan Huffman, American actor
 * Jordin Sparks, American singer
 * 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
 * December 29
 * Left Brain, American rapper and music producer
 * Jane Levy, American actress
 * Kei Nishikori, Japanese tennis player
 * December 30 – Ryan Sheckler, American skateboarder

January

 * 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
 * Jim Hurtubise, American race car driver (b. 1932)
 * Sir Edmund Leach, British anthropologist (b. 1910)
 * January 7
 * Frank Adams, British mathematician (b. 1930)
 * Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (b. 1901)
 * January 8 – Kenneth McMillan, American actor (b. 1932)
 * January 9 – Bill Terry, American baseball player (b. 1898)
 * January 10
 * Hai Deng, Chinese 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)
 * José Bustamante y Rivero, Peruvian politician, diplomat, and jurist, 33rd President of Peru (b. 1894)
 * August Koern, Estonian statesman and diplomat (b. 1900)
 * January 13 – Joe Spinell, American actor (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
 * Józef Cyrankiewicz, Polish communist politician, 2-time Prime Minister of Poland and 15th President of Poland (b. 1911)
 * Beatrice Lillie, Canadian actress (b. 1894)
 * 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 (b. 1946)
 * January 27
 * Bayani Casimiro, Filipino dancer and actor (b. 1918)
 * Sir 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

 * 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
 * John Cassavetes, American actor and author (b. 1929)
 * Glenna Collett-Vare, American golfer (b. 1903)
 * Betty Farrington, American actress (b. 1898)
 * February 6
 * Ron Field, American choreographer (b. 1934)
 * Netty Herawaty, Indonesian actress (b. 1930)
 * Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian (b. 1912)
 * 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 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 (b. 1943)
 * February 16 – Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg (b. 1899)
 * February 17
 * Lefty Gomez, American baseball player (b. 1908)
 * Joe Raposo, American musician, composer (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 monk (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

 * 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
 * Carl Stuart Hamblen, American musician (b. 1908)
 * Robert Lacoste, French politician (b. 1898)
 * 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 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 20 – Dina Sfat, Brazilian actress (b. 1938)
 * 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

 * 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 (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
 * Gerald Flood, British actor (b. 1927)
 * Sugar Ray Robinson, American professional boxer (b. 1921)
 * Moshe Ziffer, Israeli sculptor (b. 1902)
 * 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 bishop (b. 1906)
 * April 15
 * Carol Graham, British Anglican missionary (b. 1898)
 * Hu Yaobang, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b. 1915)
 * Bernard-Marie Koltès, French playwright (b. 1948)
 * April 16 – Jocko Conlan, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1899)
 * April 19
 * Harold Isherwood, British Anglican bishop (b. 1907)
 * Dame Daphne du Maurier, British writer (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 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)
 * April 27
 * Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (b. 1894)
 * Eriberto Arroyo Mío, Peruvian politician (b. 1943)
 * April 30
 * Sergio Leone, Italian film director (b. 1929)
 * Guy Williams, Italian-born American actor (b. 1924)

May

 * May 1
 * Francisco do Borja Pereira do Amaral, Brazilian bishop (b. 1898)
 * Edward Ochab, Polish activist and politician, 13th President of Poland (b. 1906)
 * May 2 – Giuseppe Siri, Italian 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 country music 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, American politician (b. 1907)
 * Don Revie, English footballer and manager (b. 1927)
 * May 29
 * John Cipollina, American musician (b. 1943)
 * Giuseppe Patanè, Italian conductor (b. 1932)
 * May 30 – James Harry Lacey, British fighter pilot (b. 1917)
 * May 31
 * Prince Friedrich Ferdinand of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (b. 1913)
 * Edward Hubbard, British architectural historian (b. 1937)
 * C. L. R. James, Trinidadian journalist and writer (b. 1901)

June

 * June 3
 * Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian philosopher, politician, revolutionary and Shia Muslim religious leader, 1st Supreme Leader of Iran (b. 1902)
 * Sir 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)
 * Nara Leão, Brazilian singer (b. 1942)
 * 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)
 * Rashid Behbudov, Azerbaijani singer and actor (b. 1915)
 * José López Rega, Argentine politician (b. 1916)
 * Karl Skytte, Danish politician (b. 1908)
 * June 10 – Richard Quine, American actor (b. 1920)
 * June 12 – Princess Niloufer of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1916)
 * June 13 – Fran Allison, Australian actress (b. 1907)
 * June 14 – Joseph Malula, Congolese archbishop and cardinal (b. 1917)
 * June 15
 * Victor French, American actor and director (b. 1934)
 * Judy Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1899)
 * Ray McAnally, Irish actor (b. 1926)
 * Lưu Hữu Phước, Vietnamese composer (b. 1921)
 * June 17 – John Matuszak, American football player and actor (b. 1950)
 * June 20 – Dieter Aderhold, German 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
 * Albennie Jones, American urban and jazz musician (b. 1914)
 * Hibari Misora, Japanese singer (b. 1937)
 * June 26
 * Howard Charles Green, Canadian politician (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

 * July 2
 * Andrei Gromyko, Soviet politician and diplomat (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 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

 * 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, American politician (b. 1944)
 * Gunnar Mattsson, Swedish-born Finnish writer and journalist (b. 1937)
 * August 8 – Bobby Oxspring, British flying ace (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 (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 21 – Raul Seixas, Brazilian rock singer (b. 1945)
 * August 22
 * John Clyne, Canadian jurist (b. 1902)
 * Huey P. Newton, African-American political activist (b. 1942)
 * Diana Vreeland, American fashion editor (b. 1929)
 * 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

 * September 1 – A. Bartlett Giamatti, American educator and baseball Commissioner (b. 1938)
 * September 4
 * Edmund Peiris, Sri Lankan 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 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 (b. 1913)

October

 * October 2
 * Paola Barbara, Italian actress (b. 1912)
 * Vittorio Caprioli, Italian actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1921)
 * Jesús Emilio Jaramillo Monsalve, Colombian prelate (b. 1916)
 * October 4
 * Graham Chapman, British comedian (b. 1941)
 * Secretariat, American Thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1970)
 * 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 (b. 1920)
 * October 16
 * Scott O'Dell, American children's writer (b. 1898)
 * Cornel Wilde, American actor (b. 1915)
 * October 20
 * Manuel Gregorio Acosta, Mexican-born American painter (b. 1921)
 * Dahn Ben-Amotz, Israeli journalist and author (b. 1924)
 * Sir Anthony Quayle, British actor (b. 1913)
 * October 22
 * Ewan MacColl, British actor, musician, and political activist (b. 1915)
 * 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

 * 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 religious sister and missionary (b. 1898)
 * November 9 - Sarwo Edhie Wibowo, Indonesian military leader (b. 1925)
 * 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 and theologian (b. 1930)
 * Ignacio Martín-Baró, Jesuit priest and theologian (b. 1942)
 * Segundo Montes, Jesuit priest and theologian (b. 1933)
 * November 19
 * Grant Adcox, American race car driver (b. 1950)
 * Nancy Drexel, American actress (b. 1910)
 * 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, Palestinian 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 (b. 1919)
 * November 27 – Carlos Arias Navarro, Spanish politician, 71st Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1908)
 * November 28 – Ernesto Civardi, Italian cardinal (b. 1906)
 * November 29
 * Gubby Allen, English cricketer (b. 1902)
 * Giuseppe Antonini, Italian football player (b. 1914)
 * Mario Colli, Italian actor (b. 1915)
 * A. Maruthakasi, Indian poet and lyricist (b. 1920)
 * November 30
 * Ahmadou Ahidjo, Cameroonian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Cameroon and President of Cameroon (b. 1924)
 * Hassan Fathy, Egyptian architect (b. 1900)

December

 * 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 (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 (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)
 * Herbert Blaize, Grenadian politician, 6th Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1918)
 * Kirill Mazurov, Soviet politician (b. 1914)
 * December 20 – Kurt Böhme, German bass (b. 1908)
 * December 21
 * Ján Cikker, Slovak composer (b. 1911)
 * Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Nigerian-born British photographer (b. 1955)
 * December 22
 * Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
 * Vasile Milea, Romanian military officer and politician, minister of Defense (b. 1927)
 * December 23 – Peter Bennett, British actor (b. 1917)
 * December 25
 * Elena Ceaușescu, Romanian politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1919)
 * Nicolae Ceaușescu, Romanian politician, dictator, and Communist Party head, 1st President of Romania(b. 1918)
 * 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 Foster Ramsey Jr., Hans Georg Dehmelt, Wolfgang Paul
 * Chemistry – Sidney Altman, Thomas 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