In 1989, a group of European and American scholars in the field of anthropology established the European Association of Social Anthropologists ( EASA ) which serves as a major professional organization for anthropologists working in Europe.

* Chase Austin ( born 1989 ), American NASCAR racecar driver

* 1989 – Juliana Cannarozzo, American figure skater and actress

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

* 1989 – Meredith Deane, American actress

* 1989 – Jason Heyward, American baseball player

* 1989 – Landry Allbright, American actress

* 1989 – Madison Bumgarner, American baseball player

* 1934 – William Calhoun, American wrestler ( d. 1989 )

* 1989 – Ken Baumann, American actor and author

* 1989 – Ali Cobrin, American actress

* 1989 – Heather Starlet, American porn actress

* 1989 – Joe Jonas, American singer-songwriter and actor ( Jonas Brothers )

* 1989 – Carlos Pena, Jr., American singer-songwriter and actor ( Big Time Rush )

* 1989 – Romeo Miller, American rapper, actor, and basketball player

* 1989 – Hayden Panettiere, American actress and singer

* 1989 – Breanna Conrad, American fashion designer

* 1912 – Herbert Mills, American singer ( The Mills Brothers ) ( d. 1989 )

* 1917 – Lou Monte, American singer ( d. 1989 )

* 1989 – Cassadee Pope, American singer-songwriter ( Hey Monday )

* 1989 – Christina Von Eerie, American wrestler

* 1989 – Mallory Low, American actress

* 1965 – Steven Stayner, American kidnap victim ( d. 1989 )

* 1989 – Alia Shawkat, American actress

* 1989 – Joe Haden, American football player

In January 1962, General Edward Lansdale described plans to overthrow the Cuban Government in a top-secret report ( partially declassified 1989 ), addressed to President Kennedy and officials involved with Operation Mongoose.

* Linda Eagle – founder and President, The Edcomm Group Banker's Academy ( 1989 – 2009 ).

* 1989 – Cold War: In a meeting off the coast of Malta, US President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the cold war between Nato and The Soviet Union may be coming to an end.

* 1989 – 1989 Philippine coup attempt: The right-wing military rebel Reform the Armed Forces Movement attempts to oust Philippine President Corazon Aquino in a failed bloody coup d ' état.

Frederik Willem de Klerk ( born 18 March 1936 ), often known as F. W. de Klerk, was the seventh and last State President of apartheid-era South Africa, serving from September 1989 to May 1994. de Klerk was also leader of the National Party ( which later became the New National Party ) from February 1989 to September 1997.

However, after a long political career and with a very conservative reputation, in 1989 he placed himself at the head of verligte (" enlightened ") forces within the governing party, with the result that he was elected head of the National Party in February 1989, and finally State President in September 1989 to replace then president P. W.

Schaffner was President of the Directors Guild of America from 1987 until his death in 1989.

George Herbert Walker Bush ( born June 12, 1924 ) is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States ( 1989 – 93 ).

In Guinea-Bissau in 1989, the ruling African Independence Party of Guinea and Cape Verde ( PAIGC ) under the direction of President João Bernardo " Nino " Vieira began to outline a political liberalization program which the People's National Assembly approved in 1991.

By 1989 President Callejas's broad economic goal became to return Honduran economic growth to 1960-80 levels.

By 1989 and the election of President Callejas, however, a heavy toll had been taken by regionwide economic recession, civil war in neighboring countries, the drying up of most external credit, and capital flight equaling more than US $ 1. 5 billion.

The Honduran land reform process under President Callejas between 1989 and 1992 was directed primarily at large agricultural landowners.

* 1918 – Nicolae Ceauşescu, 1st President of Romania ( d. 1989 )

On July 20, 1989, George H. W. Bush — then President of the United States — announced plans for what came to be known as the Space Exploration Initiative ( SEI ).

He then was a top executive, Vice President, at Degussa from 1984 to 1989 prior to joining ADM.

In late 1989, Whitacre became the President of the BioProducts Division at ADM.

Romania's Communist President Nicolae Ceauşescu flees the capital Bucharest by helicopter on 22 December 1989 amid a popular revolt to overthrow him.

Nancy Davis Reagan ( born Anne Frances Robbins ; July 6, 1921 ) is the widow of former United States President Ronald Reagan and was First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

* 1989 – In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President Rene Moawad, killing him.

The grassroots democracy movement that forced the dismissal of East German head of state Erich Honecker in 1989 also empowered a younger generation of reform politicians in East Germany's ruling Socialist Unity Party who looked to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika as their model for political change.