* 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

Among his many awards were the Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal ( 1983 ), the Gairdner Foundation International award ( 1987 ), the Wolf Foundation prize in medicine ( 1989 ), the Rosenstiel award ( 1990 ), the National Medal of Science ( 1990 ), the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research ( 1991 ), and the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize ( 1992 ).

Uncle Buck is a 1989 John Hughes comedy film starring John Candy and Amy Madigan, with Jean Louisa Kelly, Gaby Hoffmann, Macaulay Culkin, Jay Underwood, and Laurie Metcalf in supporting roles.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1975, was a fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge from 1980 to 2002, awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in 1980, won the Copley Medal in 1989, and became a Companion of Honour in 1995.

In addition to winning the Nobel Prize in 1994, he won the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research as well as the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University in 1989 together with Edwin Krebs.

He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize in 1989 together with Alfred Gilman winner of Nobel Prize in medicine in 1994 and, together with his collaborator Edmond H. Fischer, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1992 for describing how reversible phosphorylation works as a switch to activate proteins and regulate various cellular processes.

Metcalf has been awarded many international prizes including the 1986 Royal Society Wellcome Prize ( now the GlaxoSmithKline Prize ), the 1987 Bristol-Myers Award for Distinguished Achievement in Cancer Research ( jointly with Leo Sachs ), the 1998 Robert Koch Prize, the 1988 Armand Hammer Prize for Cancer Research, the 1989 General Motors Cancer Foundation Sloan Prize, the 1993 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, the 1993 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University, the 1994 Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal from the United States National Academy of Sciences, the 1994 Gairdner Foundation International Award, the 1995 Royal Society Royal Medal and, in 2007, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association for Cancer Research.

Louisa Lytton ( born 7 February 1989 ) is an English actress born in Camden and living in Islington.

The heir apparent is the present holder's son Philip Anthony Scawen Lytton, Viscount Knebworth ( b. 1989 )

* 1989 – Raid on offshore pirate station, Radio Caroline in the North Sea by British and Dutch governments.

* 1927 – Gerald Flood, British actor ( d. 1989 )

In 1989, U. S. Ambassador Charles Price and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher dedicated a bronze statue of Eisenhower in Grosvenor Square, London.

* 1989 – Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Nigerian-born British photographer ( b. 1955 )

* 1989 – Attack on Derryard checkpoint: The Provisional Irish Republican Army launch an attack on a British Army nonpermanent vehicle checkpoint near Rosslea, Northern Ireland.

* Carrion Comfort ( 1989 ) – Bram Stoker Award winner 1989 ; British Fantasy Award winner, World Fantasy Award nominee, 1990

In the 1970s and 1980s, British studios established a reputation for great special effects in films such as Superman ( 1978 ), Alien ( 1979 ), and Batman ( 1989 ).

* 1989 – An IRA bomb destroys a section of a British Army barracks in Ternhill, England

* 1921 – John Pritchard, British conductor ( d. 1989 )

While doing research into local economics during 1989, Glover had seen an " Hour " note 19th century British industrialist Robert Owen issued to his workers for spending at his company store.

In the words of his biographer, Pei has won " every award of any consequence in his art ", including the Arnold Brunner Award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters ( 1963 ), the Gold Medal for Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters ( 1979 ), the AIA Gold Medal ( 1979 ), the first Praemium Imperiale for Architecture from the Japan Art Association ( 1989 ), the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, and the 2010 Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects.

* 1989 – Daisy Lowe, British model

* 1989 – Carl Magnay, British footballer

* 1941 – Graham Chapman, British comedian ( d. 1989 )

* John Woodvine in the 1989 British television production Countdown to War

The Capitalcard brand ended in January 1989 when the Travelcard gained validity on British Rail.

In 1989, he played the title role in the sitcom Colin's Sandwich, playing a British Rail employee with aspirations to be a writer.

In November 1989 SWAPO won 57 % of the votes in the Namibian General Election and immediately requested the help of a British Military Advisory and Training Team following independence on 21 March 1990.

The British explorer Wally Herbert, initially a supporter of Peary, researched Peary's records in 1989 and concluded that they must have been falsified and that Peary had not reached the Pole.

* 1910 – Alfred Ayer, British philosopher ( d. 1989 )

* 1989 – Vanessa White, British singer ( The Saturdays )

* 1989 – Ben Brooks, British motocross racer

Using concepts from his earlier hypertext systems like ENQUIRE, British engineer and computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee, now Director of the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ), wrote a proposal in March 1989 for what would eventually become the World Wide Web.