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List of events
Events from the year 1989 in the United States .
Ronald Reagan (R -California ) (until January 20)George H. W. Bush (R -Texas ) (starting January 20)George H. W. Bush (R -Texas ) (until January 20)Dan Quayle (R -Indiana ) (starting January 20)Jim Wright (D -Texas ) (until June 6)Tom Foley (D -Washington ) (starting June 6)Robert Byrd (D -West Virginia ) (until January 3)George J. Mitchell (D -Maine ) (starting January 3)
Governors and lieutenant governors
Lieutenant governors [ edit ]
Lieutenant Governor of Alabama : Jim Folsom, Jr. (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Alaska : Stephen McAlpine (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas : Winston Bryant (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of California : Leo T. McCarthy (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Colorado : Mike Callihan (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut : Joseph J. Fauliso (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Delaware : Shien Biau Woo (Democratic ) (until January 20), Dale E. Wolf (Republican ) (starting January 20)Lieutenant Governor of Florida : Bobby Brantley (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Georgia : Zell Miller (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii : Ben Cayetano (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Idaho : Butch Otter (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Illinois : George H. Ryan (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Indiana : John Mutz (Republican ) (until January 9), Frank O'Bannon (Democratic ) (starting January 9)Lieutenant Governor of Iowa : Jo Ann Zimmerman (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Kansas : Jack D. Walker (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky : Brereton Jones (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana : Paul Hardy (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Maryland : Melvin A. Steinberg (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts : Evelyn Murphy (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Michigan : Martha W. Griffiths (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota : Marlene Johnson (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi : Brad Dye (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Missouri : Harriett Woods (Democratic ) (until January 9), Mel Carnahan (Democratic ) (starting January 9)Lieutenant Governor of Montana : Gordon McOmber (Democratic ) (until January 2), Allen Kolstad (Republican ) (starting January 2)Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska : William E. Nichol (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Nevada : Bob Miller (Democratic ) (until January 3), vacant (starting January 3)Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico : Jack L. Stahl (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of New York : Stan Lundine (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina : Robert B. Jordan, III (Democratic ) (until January 7), James Carson Gardner (Republican ) (starting January 7)Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota : Lloyd Omdahl (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Ohio : Paul R. Leonard (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma : Robert S. Kerr III (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania : Mark Singel (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island : Richard A. Licht (Democratic ) (until month and day unknown), Roger N. Begin (Democratic ) (starting month and day unknown)Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina : Nick Theodore (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota : Walter Dale Miller (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee : John S. Wilder (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Texas : William P. Hobby, Jr. (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Utah : W. Val Oveson (Republican )Lieutenant Governor of Vermont : Howard Dean (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Virginia : Douglas Wilder (Democratic )Lieutenant Governor of Washington : John Cherberg (Democratic ) (until January 11), Joel Pritchard (Republican ) (starting January 11)Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin : Scott McCallum (Republican )
January 20 : George H. W. Bush becomes the 41st U.S. presidentJanuary 20: Dan Quayle becomes the 44th U.S. vice president January 1 – The Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement comes into effect.
January 4 – Second Gulf of Sidra incident : Two Libyan MiG-23 "Floggers" are engaged and shot down by two United States Navy F-14 Tomcats .
January 10 – Harris Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago settles a government enforcement action by agreeing to pay $14 million in backpay to women and minorities, the largest such settlement ever obtained from a single employer.
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January 12 – President-elect George H. W. Bush announces the final members of his cabinet , naming James D. Watkins as Secretary of Energy and William Bennett as the first director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy .
January 13 – Bernhard Goetz is sentenced to one year in prison and fined $5,000 for shooting four young men on the New York subway in 1984.
January 16 – A Hispanic Miami police officer shoots and kills a speeding black motorcyclist in the Overtown section of Miami, Florida, starting three days of rioting.
January 17 – Stockton massacre : Patrick Edward Purdy kills five children, wounds 30 and then shoots himself in Stockton, California .
January 18 – The Republican National Committee elects Lee Atwater as its chairman.
January 20 – George H. W. Bush is sworn in as the 41st president of the United States , and Dan Quayle is sworn in as the 44th vice president .
January 22 – The San Francisco 49ers defeat the Cincinnati Bengals in Super Bowl XXIII .
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January 29 – Shining Time Station PBS . Starring Didi Conn , Brian O'Connor and Ringo Starr , the series introduces British children's television series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends
January 31 – Northway , Alaska records the highest mean sea level pressure on record in the United States with a reading of 31.85 inHg (1078.6 millibars )[ 1] February 7
The Los Angeles, California City Council bans the sale or possession of semiautomatic weapons.
The 101st United States Congress rejects a proposed 51 percent pay raise for its members, federal judges, and certain other high-ranking government officials.
February 9 – President Bush delivers his first address to the 101st Congress .
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February 11 – Barbara Harris is the first woman consecrated as a bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America .
February 14 – The first of 24 Global Positioning System satellites is placed into orbit.
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 26 – 60 Minutes apples sprayed with Alar may cause cancer in children, leading many schools to remove apples from their cafeterias. March 24: Exxon Valdez oil spill March – The unemployment rate drops to a low of 5.0%, the lowest since December 1973.
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March 3 – Former National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane is fined $20,000 and given two years' probation for misleading Congress about the Iran–Contra affair .
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March 9 – By a vote of 53 to 47, the Senate votes to reject the nomination of John Tower as United States Secretary of Defense . President Bush subsequently nominated Dick Cheney the next day, and Cheney was confirmed and sworn in as defense secretary on March 17.
March 13 – A geomagnetic storm causes the collapse of the Hydro-Québec power grid. 6 million people are left without power for 9 hours. Some areas in the northeastern U.S. and in Sweden also lose power, and aurorae are seen as far as Texas .
March 13–17 – The Food and Drug Administration bans the import of grapes from Chile after traces of cyanide are found in two grapes.
March 13–18 – The Space Shuttle Discovery flies mission STS-29 .
March 14 – Gun control : U.S. President George H. W. Bush bans the importation of certain guns deemed assault weapons into the United States.
March 15 – The United States Department of Veterans Affairs becomes established.
March 20 – Dick Cheney is sworn in as the new Secretary of Defense , succeeding Frank Carlucci .[citation needed March 22
Congress passes a bill to protect the job of whistle blowers who expose government waste or fraud.
National Football League commissioner Pete Rozelle , commissioner since 1960, announces he will step down when a replacement is found.Clint Malarchuk of the NHL Buffalo Sabres suffers an almost fatal injury when another player accidentally slits his throat.
March 23 – Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce that they have achieved cold fusion at the University of Utah .
March 24 – Exxon Valdez oil spill : In Alaska 's Prince William Sound the Exxon Valdez 3 ) of oil after running aground.
March 29 – The 61st Academy Awards , the first since 1971 with no official host are held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, with Barry Levinson 's Rain Man Best Picture and Best Director . The television broadcast is the most-viewed in Oscar history until 1998, garnering nearly 43 million viewers. July 3 – In Webster v. Reproductive Health Services
July 5
The television show Seinfeld
Oliver North is fined $150,000, and given a two-year suspended sentence and three years probation and ordered to perform 1,200 hours of community service for his crimes in the Iran-contra affair.
July 9–12 – U.S. President George H. W. Bush travels to Poland and Hungary, pushing for U.S. economic aid and investment.
July 17 – Maiden flight of the B-2 stealth bomber .
July 18 – Actress Rebecca Schaeffer is murdered by obsessed fan Robert John Bardo , leading to stricter stalking laws in California.
July 19 – United Airlines Flight 232 (Douglas DC-10 ) crashes in Sioux City, Iowa , killing 112; 184 on board survive.
July 21 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 2,600 for the first time since Black Monday (1987) .
July 26 – A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. for releasing a computer virus , making him the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act .
July 31 – Nintendo 's Game Boy is released in North America. August 5 – Congress passes the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 , which is signed into law by President Bush on August 9. The act provides a $166-billion bailout to failed savings and loans and overhauls regulation of the industry.
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August 8 – STS-28 : Space Shuttle Columbia takes off on a secret 5-day military mission.
August 10 – President Bush nominates United States Army Gen. Colin Powell as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , making him the first African American to hold that position.
August 16–17 – Woodstock '89 festival.
August 20 – In Beverly Hills, California , Lyle and Erik Menendez shoot their wealthy parents to death in the family's den.
August 22 – Nolan Ryan becomes the first pitcher in the history of Major League Baseball to get 5,000 strikeouts .
August 23 – Yusef Hawkins is shot in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn , New York , sparking racial tensions between African Americans and Italian Americans .
August 24
Record-setting baseball player Pete Rose agrees to a lifetime ban from the sport following allegations of illegal gambling, thereby preventing his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame .
The Dow Jones Industrial Average ends the day at 2,734.64, its highest closing since Black Monday (1987).
August 27 – A Delta II rocket owned by McDonnell Douglas launches a television satellite , the first time a privately owned rocket had orbited a payload.
August 29 – Harry Zych, a diver and salvager, files a lawsuit to gain ownership of the wreck of the Lady Elgin Highland Park, Illinois .[ 11] October 17: Loma Prieta earthquake October 18: Galileo and its Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) booster being deployed by the Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-34 mission. October 4 – More than 55,000 Boeing machinists go on strike. They return to work on November 22 after winning higher pay.
October 5 – A jury in Charlotte, North Carolina convicts televangelist Jim Bakker of fraud and conspiracy. On October 24, he is sentenced to 45 years in prison and fined $500,000.
October 9 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at a record high of 2,791.41.
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October 13 – Friday the 13th mini-crash : The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges 190.58 points, or 6.91 percent, to close at 2,569.26, most likely after the junk bond market collapses.
October 15 – Wayne Gretzky becomes the leading scorer in the history of the National Hockey League .
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 damage amounted to $5.6–6 billion.
October 18 – STS-34 is launched, deploying the Jupiter -bound Galileo
October 19 – The Wonders of Life pavilion opens at Epcot in Walt Disney World , Florida .
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October 23
The Phillips Disaster in Pasadena, Texas kills 23 and injures 314 others.
STS-34 lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California after five days of its mission and the successful deployment of a Jupiter-bound spacecraft.Congress fails to override Bush's veto of a bill that would have restored funding for abortions for poor women who were the victims of rape or incest.
October 26 – NFL owners elect Paul Tagliabue as NFL commissioner.
October 28 – The Oakland Athletics beat the San Francisco Giants to win the 1989 World Series . December 20: United States invasion of Panama Derrick Morgan Conor Dwyer Emily Meade Beau Mirchoff Nicole Ross Dustin Poirier Khleo Thomas January 3
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January 21 – Kayla Banwarth , volleyball player and coach
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January 23 – James Aiono , football player
January 24 – Chris Banchero , American-born Filipino basketball player
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Sara Jacobs Jeremy Sumpter Elizabeth Olsen Corbin Bleu Courtney LaPlante February 1 – Sara Jacobs , politician
February 2 – Harrison Smith , football player
February 3 – Ryne Sanborn , hockey player and actor
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February 6 – Randall Burden , football player
February 7 – Isaiah Thomas , basketball player
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February 9 – Mike Brown , football player
February 10 – Chas Alecxih , football player
February 11 – Brian Brikowski , football player
February 13 – Katie Volding , actress
February 14 – Chazz Anderson , football player
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February 16 – Elizabeth Olsen , actress
February 17 – Chord Overstreet , actor and singer
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February 22 – Chris Bassitt , baseball player
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February 26 – Courtney LaPlante , American-born Canadian singer and vocalist for Iwrestledabearonce (2012–2015) and Spiritbox (2016–present)
February 27 – Stefano Langone , singer
February 28 – Chad Bell , baseball player Daniella Monet Anton Yelchin Mason Musso Lily Collins Aly Michalka Von Miller Bianca Belair Joe Haden Alia Shawkat Martha Hunt Emily Rios Candace Owens April 2 – Nicole Baukus , convicted criminal
April 3 – T. J. Brennan , ice hockey player
April 5 – Audrey Bolte , beauty pageant winner
April 8 – Nicholas Megalis , singer/songwriter
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April 14 – Joe Haden , football player
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April 21 – Tatyana McFadden , Russian-born paralympian athlete
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April 25 – Joe Bendik , soccer player
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April 29 – Candace Owens , conservative author, talk show host, political commentator, and activist
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Tim Urban Greg Casar Chris Brown Anna Paulina Luna Prince Royce Rob Gronkowski G-Eazy Riley Keough Sean Johnson May 1
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May 5 – Chris Brown , singer and actor
May 6 – Anna Paulina Luna , Air Force veteran and politician
May 7 – Earl Thomas , football player
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May 14 – Rob Gronkowski , football player
May 15 – Sunny Lee , American-born Korean singer
May 16 – Bill Bentley , football player
May 17 – Olivia Luccardi , actress and producer
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May 19 – Gaelan Connell , actor and musician
May 20 – Grant Amato , convicted murderer
May 21 – Rodney Bartholomew , basketball player
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May 26 – Chad Billins , ice hockey player
May 28 – Isaac Butts , basketball player
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Lucy Hale Renee Olstead Christopher Mintz-Plasse Jeffrey Earnhardt Markiplier June 1
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June 3 – Jillette Johnson , singer
June 4 – Saul Almeida , Brazilian-born boxer and mixed martial artist
June 5 – Cam Atkinson , hockey player
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June 8 – Kelvin Beachum , football player
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June 16 – AraabMuzik , record producer and DJ
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June 18 – Renee Olstead , actress and singer
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June 21 – Jamar Abrams , basketball player
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June 23 – Chasten Buttigieg , teacher, writer, and LGBTQ rights advocate
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June 25 – Chris Brochu , actor and singer/songwriter
June 27 – Kimiko Glenn , actress and singer
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June 30 – Adam Bice , football player Alex Morgan Adam Cole David Henrie Hilary Knight Tristan Wilds Rory Culkin Juno Temple Alexis Knapp Zelda Williams July 1
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July 3 – Elle King , singer/songwriter and actress[ 13]
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July 6 – Laith Ashley , model, actor, activist, singer/songwriter, and entertainer
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July 13 – Leon Bridges , singer/songwriter and record producer
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July 18 – Derek Dietrich , baseball player
July 19 – James Austin Johnson , comedian and impressionist
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July 24 – Jansen Allen , racquetball player
July 25 – Andrew Caldwell , actor
July 26 – Jonathan Dwyer , football player
July 27 – Mike Brewster , football player
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Anthony Rizzo Joe Jonas Carlos PenaVega Hayden Panettiere James Harden Cassadee Pope Bebe Rexha August 1
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August 7 – DeMar DeRozan , basketball player
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August 11 – Monique Burkland , Paralympic volleyball player
August 12 – Scott Bamforth , basketball player
August 13 – Forrest Bennett , politician
August 14 – Brandon Brown , basketball player
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Anna Akana , actress, filmmaker, author, and comedianAmelia Brodka , Polish-born skateboarder, coach, and president of Exposure Skate OrganizationLaRon Byrd , football player
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August 22 – Bobby Bollier , swimmer
August 23 – Trevor Bryan , boxer
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August 26 – James Harden , basketball player
August 27 – Juliana Cannarozzo , figure skater
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Bill Kaulitz Kat Graham Jimmy Butler Logan Henderson Jason Derulo Brandon Jennings September 1 – Bill Kaulitz , German-born singer/songwriter and frontman for Tokio Hotel
September 2 – Bianca Butler, pair figure skater
September 4 – Nigel Bradham , football player
September 5 – Kat Graham , Swiss-born actress, singer, dancer, and model
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September 10 – Sanjaya Malakar , singer
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September 24 – Jake Buchanan , baseball player
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September 29 – Ian Crawford , musician Brie Larson Dakota Johnson Lil Mama Travis Kelce Aimee Teegarden Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Kyle Carpenter October 1
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Audra the Rapper , rapper, songwriter, and television personalityCarlon Brown , basketball playerAustin Davis , politician, 35th Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania Dakota Johnson , actressLil Mama , rapperKimmie Meissner , figure skaterRich Homie Quan , rapperSupa Bwe , hip hop recording artist, producer, and audio engineer
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October 6 – Peter Badovinac , football coach
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October 16 – Jack Salvatore Jr. , production assistant and actor
October 17 – Kyle Carpenter , marine, Afghan War veteran, and Medal of Honor Recipient
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Aaron Hernandez Jordan Mark Witzigreuter Tyga Alden Ehrenreich November 1 – Derek Ali , mixing engineer
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November 11 – Adam Rippon , Olympic figure skater
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November 13 – Lane Adams , baseball player
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November 16 – Ryan Anderson , monster truck driver
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November 23 – Corey Baker , baseball player
November 25 – William Li , livestreamer
November 26 – Nickardo Blake , Jamaican-born soccer player
November 27 – Harry Adams , sprinter
November 28 – Leonardo Bates , football player
November 30 – Kimberly Hill , Olympic volleyball player Nafessa Williams Jen Ledger Taylor Swift Ashley Benson Jordin Sparks Ryan Sheckler December 1
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December 6 – Deshauna Barber , beauty pageant titleholder, motivational speaker, and United States Army captain
December 8 – Jen Ledger , British-born singer and drummer for Skillet
December 9 – Eric Bledsoe , basketball player
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December 16 – Randy Bullock , football player
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December 18 – Ashley Benson , actress
December 19 – Isaiah Anderson , football player
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December 31 – AKINO , American-born Japanese singer/songwriter Nicole Addimando , convicted murdererShaindel Antelis , singer/songwriter and actressCarter Arey , wheelchair basketball playerJamareo Artis , bass guitaristAmerican Artist , contemporary artistBen Babbitt , artist and musicianDaniel Bachman , musicianKatya Bachrouche , American-born Lebanese Olympic swimmerRachael Bade , journalistSam Bailey , writer, producer, director, and actressRyan Bancroft , conductorLeslie Barlow , artistCandice Bennatt , lawyer and beauty pageant winnerIsidore Bethel , American-born French filmmakerStevie Boi , fashion designer and founder of SB ShadesAnnie Booth , jazz pianistKatie Bouman , engineer and computer scientistKris Bowers , composer and pianistDiedrick Brackens , artistJuliette Brindak , businesswoman and co-founder of Miss O & FriendsJonathan Daniel Brown , actor and directorLex Brown , artistMolly Burhans , cartographer, data scientist, environmental activist, and founder of GoodLandsAri Fitz , model, vlogger, television personality, and filmmakerJanuary 1 – Charles Cornell , communist activist (b. 1911 )[ 14]
January 9 – Bill Terry , baseball player and manager (b. 1898 )
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January 21 – Billy Tipton , jazz musician (b. 1914 )
January 24 – Ted Bundy , serial killer (b. 1946 )
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February 17 – Lefty Gomez , baseball player (b. 1908 )
February 18 – Mildred Burke , wrestler and trainer (b. 1915 )
March – Edith Achilles , psychologist (b. 1892 )
March 9 – Robert Mapplethorpe , photographer (b. 1946 )
March 17 – Merritt Butrick , actor (b. 1959 )
April 8 – Joseph Crouch , American politician (b. 1934).[ 15]
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April 20 – Edward DeSaulnier , American politician (b. 1921 )
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April 22 – Henry R. Paige , Marine Corps general (b. 1904 )
April 26 – Lucille Ball , film and television comedy actress and model (b. 1911 )
April 30 – Guy Williams , actor (b. 1924 )
May 3 – Christine Jorgensen , transgender actress, singer, and activist (b. 1926 )
May 19 – Robert Webber , actor (b. 1924 )
May 20 – Gilda Radner , actress and comedian (b. 1946 )
May 30 – Claude Pepper , U.S. Senator from Florida from 1936 to 1951 (b. 1900 )
June 15 – Victor French , actor and director (b. 1934 )
July 1 – William Ching , actor, (b. 1913 )
July 3 – Jim Backus , actor (b. 1913 )
July 5 – Odus Mitchell , American football player and coach (b. 1899 ).
July 10 – Mel Blanc , voice actor, actor, radio comedian and recording artist (b. 1908 )[ 16]
July 18 – Rebecca Schaeffer , actress and model (b. 1967 )
July 22 – Paul Christoph Mangelsdorf , botanist and agronomist (b. 1899 )
July 24 – Sunshine Sammy Morrison , child actor and comedian (b. 1912 )
July 25 – Steve Rubell , entrepreneur (b. 1943 )
July 30 – Lane Frost , bull rider (b. 1963 )
August 13 – Tim Richmond , racing driver (b. 1955 )
August 16 – Amanda Blake , actress (b. 1929 )
August 22 – Huey P. Newton , African-American revolutionary and political activist (b. 1942 )
September 17 – Jay Stewart , announcer (b. 1918 )
September 22 – Irving Berlin , composer and lyricist (b. 1888 )
September 28 – Ferdinand Marcos , politician, 10th president of the Philippines (b. 1917 )
October 6 – Bette Davis , screen actress (b. 1908 )
October 11 – Paul Shenar , actor and director (b. 1936 )
October 16 – Cornel Wilde , Hungarian-American actor and filmmaker (b. 1912 )
October 25 – Mary McCarthy , novelist, critic and political activist (b. 1912 )
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November 10 – Cookie Mueller , American actress and writer (b. 1949 )
November 19 – Grant Adcox , race car driver (b. 1950 )
December 1 – Alvin Ailey , African American choreographer (b. 1931 )
December 6 – Frances Bavier , actress (b. 1902 )
December 7 – Haystacks Calhoun , professional wrestler (b. 1934 )
December 11 – Lindsay Crosby , actor, singer, and son of Bing Crosby (b. 1938 )
December 16 – Lee Van Cleef , actor (b. 1925 )
December 25 – Billy Martin , baseball player and manager (b. 1928 )
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