page_title: 1989
section_title: June
hierarchical_section_title: 1989 / Deaths / June
caption_attribution_description: English: Ruhollah Khomeini
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: June 3 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian philosopher, politician, revolutionary and Shia Muslim religious leader, 1st Supreme Leader of Iran (b. 1902)
  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)
  Pete de Freitas, English musician and producer (b. 1961)
  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, jurist, police chief and SS-Obergruppenführer leader (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)
caption: Ruhollah Khomeini
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