* Robert E. Cox ( 1917 – 1989 ) who conducted the " Gleanings for ATMs " column in Sky and Telescope magazine for 21 years.

* Nuclides and Isotopes – 14th Edition, GE Nuclear Energy, 1989.

* 1902 – Veniamin Kaverin, Russian writer ( d. 1989 )

* 1989 – Dominic Roco, Filipino actor

* 1989 – Felix Roco, Filipino actor

* 1989 – Jang Wooyoung, South Korean singer ( 2PM )

* 1989 – Juliana Cannarozzo, American figure skater and actress

* 1989 – Romain Amalfitano, French footballer

* 1911 – Lucille Ball, American actress ( d. 1989 )

* 1989 – Meredith Deane, American actress

* 1989 – Jason Heyward, American baseball player

* 1989 – Stefano Okaka, Italian footballer

Most of Armenia's ethnic Azeri population was deported in 1988 – 1989 and remain refugees, largely in Azerbaijan.

The Australian team of 1989 was comparable to the great Australian teams of the past, and resoundingly defeated England 4 – 0.

After re-establishing its credibility in 1989, Australia underlined its superiority with victories in the 1990 – 91, 1993, 1994 – 95, 1997, 1998 – 99, 2001 and 2002 – 03 series, all by convincing margins.

Ashes series have generally been played over five Test matches, although there have been four-match series ( 1938 ; 1975 ) and six-match series ( 1970 – 71 ; 1974 – 75 ; 1978 – 79 ; 1981 ; 1985 ; 1989 ; 1993 and 1997 ).

* 1989 – Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restoring democracy for the first time since 1972.

* 1989 – A massacre is carried out by an Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 64 ethnic Tamil civilians.

* 1961 – Pete de Freitas, Spanish drummer ( Echo & the Bunnymen ) ( d. 1989 )

* 1989 – Vanes-Mari Du Toit, South African netball player

According to an estimate by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ( SIPRI ), 40 % of all Brazilian arms transfers from 1985 to 1989 went to Iraq.

* 1989 – Pedro Silva, Brazilian footballer

* 1989 – Rodrigo Possebon, Brazilian Footballer

* 1989 – Vicente, Brazilian footballer

* 1989 – Chico Landi, Brazilian race car driver ( b. 1907 )

* 1989 – Leandro Damião, Brazilian footballer

* 1989 – Alemão, Brazilian footballer

* 1989 – Anderson Conceição Benedito, Brazilian footballer

* 1989 – Breno Borges, Brazilian footballer

* 1989 – Alexandre Pato, Brazilian footballer

Sessions for the album began in December 1989, and took place in Rio de Janeiro and New York, featuring guitarist J. J. Cale and many Brazilian and African musicians.

Rei Momo ( 1989 ) was the first solo album by Byrne, after leaving Talking Heads, that features mainly Afro-Cuban, Afro-Hispanic, and Brazilian song styles including popular dances including merengue, Cuban Son, samba, mambo, cumbia, cha-cha-chá, bomba, and charanga.

When the F-5 training program ended in 1989, the aircraft was sold to the Brazilian Air Force.

The so-called Tricolor Decade ended with the 1989 Paulista Championship title and a second place finish in the Brazilian Championship, when São Paulo lost to Vasco da Gama in the final match.

In 1989, Bahia won its first Brazilian Championship against Internacional from Porto Alegre.

Beneath the Remains is the third studio album by Brazilian heavy metal band Sepultura, released in 1989.

* Wallace da Silva ( born 1989 ), a Brazilian footballer

Mistral entered series production in 1989 and is now deployed by 37 armed forces of 25 countries ( eight countries in Europe, eight in the Asia-Pacific, five in South America, three in the Middle East ), including Austria, Belgium, the Brazilian Marine Corps, Chile, Colombia, Cyprus, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Hungary, Indonesia, Morocco, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, South Korea, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, and Venezuela.

Brazil's Bozo won five Troféu Imprensa, a famous Brazilian award given to personalities and productions in the media ( in 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987 and 1989 ), as well as three Gold Albums.

* Ramon Lopes de Freitas ( born 1989 ) Brazilian footballer

Due to some problems with the Brazilian Electoral Court, the PMN's registration was ceased in January 1989.

In Sri Lanka, which had subsidized basic foodstuffs and given free education and health care until the later 1970s, the average newborn could expect to live several years longer than the average Brazilian, and to die as an infant at about half the Brazilian rate in 1969, at a third of the Brazilian rate in 1989.