page_title: 1989
section_title: April
hierarchical_section_title: 1989 / Deaths / April
caption_attribution_description: English: Sergio Leone on the set of Once Upon a Time in America (1984)Italiano: Sergio Leone sul set di C'era una volta in America (1984).
context_page_description: 1989 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1989th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 989th year of the 2nd millennium, the 89th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1980s decade.
  1989 was a turning point in political history because a wave of revolutions swept the Eastern Bloc in Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power sharing, coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin Wall in November, and the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, embracing the overthrow of the communist dictatorship in Romania in December, and ending in December 1991 with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. These are collectively known as the Revolutions of 1989.
  It was the year of the first Brazilian presidential election in 29 years, since the end of the military government in 1985 that ruled the country for more than twenty years, and marked the redemocratization process's final point.
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context_section_description: April 1 – George Robledo, Chilean soccer player (b. 1926)
  April 3 – Mustafa Çağatay, Turkish-Cypriot politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Northern Cyprus (b. 1937)
  April 6 – Tufton Beamish, Baron Chelwood, British army officer and politician (b. 1917)
  April 12
  Abbie Hoffman, American political activist (b. 1936)
  Sugar Ray Robinson, American professional boxer (b. 1921)
  April 15
  Hu Yaobang, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b. 1915)
  Bernard-Marie Koltès, French playwright (b. 1948)
  April 19 – Dame Daphne du Maurier, British writer (b. 1907)
  April 20 — Edward DeSaulnier, American politician (b. 1921)
  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 – 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)
  April 30
  Sergio Leone, Italian film director (b. 1929)
  Guy Williams, Italian-born American actor (b. 1924)
caption: Sergio Leone
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