page_title: 1989
section_title: May
hierarchical_section_title: 1989 / Deaths / May
caption_attribution_description: English: Zdenek Frolik
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: 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 28 – Iván Palazzese, Italian-Venezuelan professional motorcycle racer (b. 1962)
  May 29
  John Cipollina, American guitarist (b. 1943)
  Giuseppe Patanè, Italian conductor (b. 1932)
  May 30 – James Harry Lacey, British fighter pilot (b. 1917)
  May 31
  Edward Hubbard, British architectural historian (b. 1937)
  C. L. R. James, Trinidadian journalist and writer (b. 1901)
caption: Zdeněk Frolík
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