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Events from the year 1989 in the United States.
Incumbents
Federal government
- 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)
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Governors
Lieutenant governors
- 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)
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Events
January
- January 1 – The Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement comes into effect.[1]
- January 4 – Second Gulf of Sidra incident: Two Libyan MiG-23 "Floggers" are engaged and shot down by two United States 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.[2]
- 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 schoolyard shooting: Patrick Edward Purdy kills five children, wounds 30 and then shoots himself in Stockton, California.[3]
- 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)[5]
February
- February 7
- The Los Angeles, California City Council bans the sale or possession of semiautomatic weapons.
- The 101st United States Congress rejects a proposed 51 percent pay raise for its members, federal judges, and certain other high-ranking government officials.
- February 9 – President Bush delivers his first address to the 101st Congress.
- February 10
- February 11 – Barbara Harris is the first woman consecrated as a bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
- February 14 – The first of 24 Global Positioning System satellites is placed into orbit.
- February 23 – After protracted testimony, the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee rejects, 11–9, President Bush's nomination of John Tower for Secretary of Defense.
- February 23–27 – U.S. President Bush visits Japan, China, and South Korea, attending the funeral of Hirohito and then meeting with China's Deng Xiaoping and South Korea's Roh Tae-woo.
- February 26 – 60 Minutes in the United States airs a report claiming that apples sprayed with Alar may cause cancer in children, leading many schools to remove apples from their cafeterias.
March
- 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.[6]
- 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.
April
May
June
July
- 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
- 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 Menendez 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.[16]
September
October
- 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.
November
December
Ongoing
Births
January
- January 3
- January 4
- January 6
- January 8
- January 9 – Michael Beasley, basketball player
- January 10
- January 12 – Tiler Peck, ballerina
- 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
February
- 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
March
April
- April 2 – Nicole Baukus, convicted criminal
- April 3 – T. J. Brennan, ice hockey player
- April 5
- 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
- April 30
May
- 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
June
- 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
July
- July 1
- July 2
- July 3
- 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
August
- 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
- August 24
- August 25
- August 26 – James Harden, basketball player
- August 27 – Juliana Cannarozzo, figure skater
- August 28
- August 30
- August 31
September
- 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
October
- 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
November
- 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
December
- December 1
- December 2
- December 4
- December 5 – Gregory Tyree Boyce, actor
- December 6 – Deshauna Barber, beauty pageant titleholder, motivational speaker, and United States 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
Full date unknown
- Shaindel Antelis, singer/songwriter and actress
- 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
- 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
Deaths
- January 1 – Charles Cornell, communist activist (b. 1911)[18]
- January 9 – Bill Terry, baseball player and manager (b. 1898)
- January 13
- 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 11 – William Challee, actor (b. 1904)[19]
- March 12 – Thaddeus B. Hurd, architect and historian (b. 1903)
- March 17 – Merritt Butrick, actor (b. 1959)
- April 8 – Joseph Crouch, American politician (b. 1934).[20]
- 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 1 – William Ching, actor, (b. 1913)
- July 3 – Jim Backus, actor (b. 1913)
- July 5 – Odus Mitchell, American football player and coach (b. 1899).
- July 10 – Mel Blanc, voice actor, actor, radio comedian and recording artist (b. 1908)[21]
- July 18 – Rebecca Schaeffer, actress and model (b. 1967)
- July 22 – Paul Christoph Mangelsdorf, botanist and agronomist (b. 1899)
- 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 20 – Joseph LaShelle, cinematographer (b. 1900)
- 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)
See also
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