page_title: 1989
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1989 / Deaths / January
caption_attribution_description: Józef Cyrankiewicz, Prime Minister of Poland (People's Republic of Poland) 1947-1970
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: 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)
  Ray Moore, British broadcaster (b. 1942)
  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)
caption: Józef Cyrankiewicz
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