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
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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. president
January 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 US 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.
January 11
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 .
January 24
January 29 – Shining Time Station , a children's sitcom debuts on PBS . Starring Didi Conn , Brian O'Connor and Ringo Starr , the series introduces British children's television series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends to America.
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]
March 24: Exxon Valdez oil spill
March – The unemployment rate drops to a low of 5.0%, the lowest since December 1973.
March 1
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 .
March 4
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 spills 240,000 barrels (38,000 m3 ) 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 winning four awards out of eight nominations, including 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 , the Supreme Court gives the states new authority to restrict abortions.
July 5
The television show Seinfeld premieres.
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.
August 7
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 Menéndez 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 which he has recently discovered in Lake Michigan in 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.
October 12
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 probe.
October 19 – The Wonders of Life pavilion opens at Epcot in Walt Disney World , Florida .
October 20
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
January 4
January 6
January 8
January 9 – Michael Beasley , basketball player
January 10
January 13
January 15
January 16
January 17
January 18
January 19
January 21 – Kayla Banwarth , volleyball player and coach
January 22
January 23 – James Aiono , football player
January 24 – Chris Banchero , American-born Filipino basketball player
January 25
January 26
January 27
January 29
January 30
January 31
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
February 4
February 5
February 6 – Randall Burden , football player
February 7 – Isaiah Thomas , basketball player
February 8
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
February 15
February 16 – Elizabeth Olsen , actress
February 17 – Chord Overstreet , actor and singer
February 18
February 19
February 20
February 21
February 22 – Chris Bassitt , baseball player
February 23
February 24
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
April 9
April 10
April 11
April 12
April 13
April 14 – Joe Haden , football player
April 16
April 17
April 18
April 19
April 20
April 21 – Tatyana McFadden , Russian-born paralympian athlete
April 22
April 23
April 24
April 25 – Joe Bendik , soccer player
April 26
April 27
April 28
April 29 – Candace Owens , conservative author, talk show host, political commentator, and activist
April 30
Tim Urban
Greg Casar
Chris Brown
Anna Paulina Luna
Prince Royce
Rob Gronkowski
G-Eazy
Riley Keough
Sean Johnson
May 1
May 2
May 3
May 4
May 5 – Chris Brown , singer and actor
May 6 – Anna Paulina Luna , Air Force veteran and politician
May 7 – Earl Thomas , football player
May 8
May 9
May 10
May 11
May 12
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
May 18
May 19 – Gaelan Connell , actor and musician
May 20 – Grant Amato , convicted murderer
May 21 – Rodney Bartholomew , basketball player
May 22
May 24
May 26 – Chad Billins , ice hockey player
May 28 – Isaac Butts , basketball player
May 29
May 30
May 31
Lucy Hale
Renee Olstead
Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Jeffrey Earnhardt
Markiplier
June 1
June 2
June 3 – Jillette Johnson , singer
June 4 – Saul Almeida , Brazilian-born boxer and mixed martial artist
June 5 – Cam Atkinson , hockey player
June 6
June 8 – Kelvin Beachum , football player
June 9
June 10 – DeAndre Kane , basketball player
June 11
June 12
June 13
June 14
June 15
June 16 – AraabMuzik , record producer and DJ
June 17
June 18 – Renee Olstead , actress and singer
June 20
June 21 – Jamar Abrams , basketball player
June 22
June 23 – Chasten Buttigieg , teacher, writer, and LGBTQ rights advocate
June 24
June 25 – Chris Brochu , actor and singer/songwriter
June 27 – Kimiko Glenn , actress and singer
June 28
June 29
June 30 – Adam Bice , football player
Alex Morgan
David Henrie
Hilary Knight
Tristan Wilds
Rory Culkin
Juno Temple
Alexis Knapp
Zelda Williams
July 1
July 2
July 3 – Elle King , singer/songwriter and actress[ 13]
July 4
July 5
July 6 – Laith Ashley , model, actor, activist, singer/songwriter, and entertainer
July 7
July 10
July 11
July 12
July 13 – Leon Bridges , singer/songwriter and record producer
July 14
July 15
July 16
July 18 – Derek Dietrich , baseball player
July 19 – James Austin Johnson , comedian and impressionist
July 21
July 22
July 23
July 24 – Jansen Allen , racquetball player
July 25 – Andrew Caldwell , actor
July 26 – Jonathan Dwyer , football player
July 27 – Mike Brewster , football player
July 28
July 29
July 31
Anthony Rizzo
Joe Jonas
Carlos PenaVega
Hayden Panettiere
James Harden
Cassadee Pope
Bebe Rexha
August 1
August 3
August 4
August 5
August 7 – DeMar DeRozan , basketball player
August 8
August 9
August 10
August 11 – Monique Burkland , Paralympic volleyball player
August 12 – Scott Bamforth , basketball player
August 13 – Forrest Bennett , politician
August 14 – Brandon Brown , basketball player
August 15
August 16
August 18
Anna Akana , actress, filmmaker, author, and comedian
Amelia Brodka , Polish-born skateboarder, coach, and president of Exposure Skate Organization
LaRon Byrd , football player
August 19
August 20
August 21
August 22 – Bobby Bollier , swimmer
August 23 – Trevor Bryan , boxer
August 24
August 25
August 26 – James Harden , basketball player
August 27 – Juliana Cannarozzo , figure skater
August 28
August 30
August 31
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
September 6
September 7
September 8
September 9
September 10 – Sanjaya Malakar , singer
September 11
September 12
September 14
September 15 – BbyMutha , rapper
September 17
September 19
September 21
September 22
September 23
September 24 – Jake Buchanan , baseball player
September 27
September 29 – Ian Crawford , musician
Brie Larson
Dakota Johnson
Lil Mama
Travis Kelce
Aimee Teegarden
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Kyle Carpenter
October 1
October 3
October 4
Audra the Rapper , rapper, songwriter, and television personality
Carlon Brown , basketball player
Austin Davis , politician, 35th Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania
Dakota Johnson , actress
Lil Mama , rapper
Kimmie Meissner , figure skater
Rich Homie Quan , rapper
Supa Bwe , hip hop recording artist, producer, and audio engineer
October 5
October 6 – Peter Badovinac , football coach
October 10
October 11
October 12
October 13
October 15
October 16 – Jack Salvatore Jr. , production assistant and actor
October 17 – Kyle Carpenter , marine, Afghan War veteran, and Medal of Honor Recipient
October 18
October 19
October 21
October 22
October 23
October 24
October 25
October 27
October 30
October 31
Aaron Hernandez
Jordan Mark Witzigreuter
Tyga
Alden Ehrenreich
November 1 – Derek Ali , mixing engineer
November 2
November 3
November 5
November 4 – Jarrett Boykin , football player
November 6
November 8
November 10 – Conrad Bassett-Bouchard , scrabble player
November 11 – Adam Rippon , Olympic figure skater
November 12
November 13 – Lane Adams , baseball player
November 14
November 16 – Ryan Anderson , monster truck driver
November 19
November 20
November 21
November 22
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
December 2
December 4
December 5 – Gregory Tyree Boyce , actor
December 6 – Deshauna Barber , beauty pageant titleholder, motivational speaker, and U.S. Army Captain
December 8 – Jen Ledger , British-born singer and drummer for Skillet
December 9 – Eric Bledsoe , basketball player
December 11
December 12
December 13
December 15
December 16 – Randy Bullock , football player
December 17
December 18 – Ashley Benson , actress
December 19 – Isaiah Anderson , football player
December 20
December 21
December 22
December 25 – Blayne Barber , golfer
December 26 – Bassel Bawji , basketball player
December 28
December 29
December 30
December 31 – AKINO , American-born Japanese singer/songwriter
Nicole Addimando , convicted murderer
Shaindel Antelis , singer/songwriter and actress
Carter Arey , wheelchair basketball player
Jamareo Artis , bass guitarist
American Artist , contemporary artist
Ben Babbitt , artist and musician
Daniel Bachman , musician
Katya Bachrouche , American-born Lebanese Olympic swimmer
Rachael Bade , journalist
Sam Bailey , writer, producer, director, and actress
Ryan Bancroft , conductor
Leslie Barlow , artist
Candice Bennatt , lawyer and beauty pageant winner
Isidore Bethel , American-born French filmmaker
Stevie Boi , fashion designer and founder of SB Shades
Annie Booth , jazz pianist
Katie Bouman , engineer and computer scientist
Kris Bowers , composer and pianist
Diedrick Brackens , artist
Juliette Brindak , businesswoman and co-founder of Miss O & Friends
Jonathan Daniel Brown , actor and director
Lex Brown , artist
Molly Burhans , cartographer, data scientist, environmental activist, and founder of GoodLands
Ari Fitz , model, vlogger, television personality, and filmmaker
January 9 – Bill Terry , baseball player and manager (b. 1898 )
January 13 – Joe Spinell , actor (b. 1936 )
January 21 – Billy Tipton , jazz musician (b. 1914 )
January 24 – Ted Bundy , serial killer (b. 1946 )
February 3
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).[ 14]
April 12
April 20 – Edward DeSaulnier , American politician (b. 1921 )
April 21
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 3 – Jim Backus , actor (b. 1913 )
July 10 – Mel Blanc , voice actor, actor, radio comedian and recording artist (b. 1908 )[ 15]
July 18 – Rebecca Schaeffer , actress and model (b. 1967 )
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 )
November 5
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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