In the year 1989, George H. W. Bush becomes the 41st U.S. president (Jan 20), the Soviet army leaves Afghanistan (Feb 2), Rain Man wins the Academy Award for the best picture (Mar 29), the first McDonald’s restaurant begins construction in Moscow (May 3), Mikhail Gorbachev visits China (May 14), the Tiananmen Square massacre takes place in Beijing (Jun 4), France celebrates the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution (Jul 14), two million people join hands in the Baltic Way to demonstrate against Soviet rule of the Baltic republics (Aug 23), **Berlin Wall falls **(Nov 9) - and all these fine people were born:
1989-0101
1989-0104 Kim lopez Gonzales* Paralympic athlete (shot put)/OG - Valencia, Spain
1989-0104 Julius Yego* athlete (javelin)/OS - Cheptonon, Tinderet, Kenya
1989-0108 Non Stanford* athlete (triathlon/EG) - Bridgend, Wales, UK
1989-0112 Axel Witsel* football player - Liège, Belgium
1989-0115 Ryan Corr* actor - Melbourne, VIC Australia
1989-0115 Anita Márton* athlete (shot put)/OB - Szeged, Hungary
1989-0124 Gong Lijiao* athlete (shot put)/OG - Luquan, China
1989-0126 Emily Hughes* figure skater - Great Neck, NY USA
1989-0129 Kevin Shattenkirk* hockey player - New Rochelle, NY USA
1989-0201 Clare Polkinghorne* football player - Brisbane, QLD Australia
1989-0202 Ivan Perisic* Croatian football player - Split, Yugoslavia
1989-0203 Mira Jalosuo* hockey player/OB - Lieksa, Finland
1989-0203 Kadiff Kirwan* actor - Plymouth, Montserrat, British Overseas Territory
1989-0203 Atawhai Tupaea* rugby player - Auckland, New Zealand
1989-0204 Märt Pius* actor/twin of Priit - Tallinn, Estonia, Soviet Union
1989-0204 Priit Pius* actor - Tallinn, Estonia, Soviet Union
1989-0205 Sus Noreen Jondahl Wilkins* actress - Copenhagen, Denmark - IMDb
1989-0208 Chai Hansen* (b Surachai Romruen) Thai-Australian actor/w Thai father/to Australia at age 7 - Ko Samui, Thailand
1989-0209 Ari-Pekka Liukkonen* swimmer/EG - Pieksämäki, Finland
1989-0210 Bashir Abdi* Belgian marathon runner/OB - Mogadishu, Somalia
1989-0210 Birgit Skarstein* para-athlete (rowing/OG)/(cross-country skiing) - Levanger, Norway
1989-0211 Jesse Rath* actor - Montreal, QC Canada
1989-0213 Carly McKillip* actress/ musician/singer - Vancouver, BC Canada
1989-0216 Elizabeth Olsen* actress - Sherman Oaks, CA USA
1989-0218 Whitney Ashley* athlete (discus) - Riverside, CA USA
1989-0219 Jeff Henderson* athlete (long jump) - McAlmont, AR USA
1989-0220 Jack Falahee* actor - Ann Arbor, MI USA
1989-0221 Ian Cole* hockey player/SC - Ann Arbor, MI USA
1989-0222 Wojciech Nowicki* athlete (hammer/OG) - Białystok, Poland
1989-0224 Daniel Kaluuya* actor /writer - London, England
1989-0225
1989-0227 Richard Ringer* long-distance runner (marathon/EG) - Überlingen, West Germany
1989-0228 Jennie Jacques* actress (Vikings) - Coventry, England
1989-0301
1989-0302 Abdi Nageeye* Dutch marathon runner/OS - Mogadishu, Somalia
1989-0305 Jake Lloyd* actor (Star Wars) - Fort Collins, CO USA
1989-0305 Joe Thompson* football player - Bath, Somerset, England (2025/36)
1989-0306 Agnieszka Radwanska* tennis player - Krakow, Poland
1989-0307 Esa-Pekka Mattila* wheelchair racer - Finland
1989-0308 Annina Rajahuhta* hockey player/OB - Helsinki, Finland
1989-0310
1989-0311 Anton Yelchin* Russian-American actor - Leningrad, Russia, Soviet Union (2016/27)
1989-0312 Evgenii Dadonov* hockey player- Chelyabinsk, Russia, Soviet Union
1989-0313 Peaches Geldof* model/television personality/columnist - Westminster, London, England (2014/25)
1989-0313 Pierre Niney* actor - Boulogne-Billancourt, France
1989-0315 Tom Bateman* actor - Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
1989-0317 Dong Feixia* Paralympic athlete (discus/OG) - China
1989-0318 Lily Collins* British-American actress/daughter of Phil Collins - Guildford, Surrey, England
1989-0319 Hannes Aigner* canoeist/OB - Augsburg, West Germany
1989-0319 Vincent Hancock* sport shooter/OG - Port, Charlotte,FL USA
1989-0320 Lindsay Ell* country music singer/ guitarist/songwriter - Calgary, AB Canada
1989-0321 Jordi Alba* football player - L’Hospitalet, Spain
1989-0322 Jimmy Durmaz* football player - Örebro, Sweden
1989-0322 Minna Grusander* mixed martial artist - Finland
1989-0325 Aly Michalka* actress/ singer-songwriter/musician - Torrance, CA USA
1989-0326 Simon Kjær* football player - Horsens, Denmark
1989-0331
1989-0401
1989-0403 James McArdle* actor - Glasgow, Scotland
1989-0405
1989-0407 Teddy Riner* judoka/OG - Les Abymes, Guadeloupe, France
1989-0408 Niko Vesterinen* strongman - Lahti, Finland (2019/29)
1989-0410
1989-0417 Beau Knapp* actor - Los Angeles, CA USA
1989-0418 Adam McAssey* acrobatic gymnast (Spelbound) - England
1989-0420
1989-0421 Tatyana McFadden* American Paralympic athlete (wheelchair racer)/OB/adopted to U.S. at age 5 - Leningrad, Russia, Soviet Union
1989-0422 Aron Gunnarsson* football player - Akureyri, Iceland
1989-0425 Michael van Gerwen* darts player/WG - Boxtel, Netherlands
1989-0430
1989-0501 Ihab Abdelrahman* athlete (javelin/WS) - Kafr Saqr, Egypt
1989-0501 James Cusati-Moyer* actor - Northampton, PA USA
1989-0502
1989-0504 Jak Ali Harvey* Jamaican-Turk sprinter/ES - Hanover Parish, Jamaica
1989-0504 Rory McIlroy* golfer - Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland
1989-0504 James van Riemsdyk* hockey player - Middletown, NJ USA
1989-0505 Anna Hasselborg* curler/OG - Stockholm, Sweden
1989-0506 Anna Paulina Luna* (b Mayerhofer) Air Force veteran/politician - Santa Ana, CA USA
1989-0507
1989-0508 Nyle DiMarco* fashion model/actor/deaf activist - Queens, NY USA
1989-0508 Lars Eller* hockey player/SC - Rødovre, Denmark
1989-0509 Katie Bouman* computer scientist - West Lafayette, IN USA
1989-0509 Riley Nash* hockey player - Consort, AB Canada
1989-0509 Ellen White* football player/EC - Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England
1989-0510 Carter Rowney* hockey player/SC - Sexsmith, AB Canada
1989-0512 Antti Raanta* hockey goalie - Rauma, Finland
1989-0513 P. K. Subban* hockey player/OG - Toronto, ON Canada
1989-0518 Hanna Hermansson* middle-distance runner - Stockholm, Sweden
1989-0518 Eugénie Le Sommer* football player - Grasse, France
1989-0520
1989-0529 Aura Garrido* actress - Madrid, Spain
1989-0529 Riley Keough* actress/ filmmaker/granddaughter of Elvis Presley - Santa Monica, CA USA
1989-0529 Noora Räty* hockey goalie/OB - Espoo, Finland
1989-0530 Akiyo Noguchi* 野口 啓代 sport climber/OB - Ryūgasaki, Japan
1989-0531 Marco Reus* football player - Dortmund, West Germany
1989-0601
1989-0603 Imogen Poots* actress - Hammersmith, London, England
1989-0604 Pawel Fajdek* athlete (hammer throw/WG) - Świebodzice, Poland
1989-0604 Harri Heliövaara* tennis player - Helsinki, Finland
1989-0605 Cam Atkinson* hockey player - Riverside, CT USA
1989-0607 Lasse Lappalainen* hockey player - Kuopio, Finland
1989-0610
1989-0612 Jade Anouka* actress - Slade Green, London, England
1989-0612 Jud Birza* model/Survivor S21 Contestant - Lake St. Louis, MO USA
1989-0612 Krista Donnenwirth* softball player - Torrance, CA USA
1989-0612 Krista Kleiner* beauty queen/entertainer/w Filipino roots - Fullerton, CA USA
1989-0613
1989-0614 Wei Meng* sport shooter/OB - Laizhou, China
1989-0614 Mónica Olivia Rodríguez* Paralympic athlete (runner)/OG - Ciudad Guzmán, Mexico
1989-0616 Odion Ighalo* football player - Lagos, Nigeria
1989-0618 Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang* football player - Laval, France
1989-0618 Jordan Patrick Smith* Scottish-Australian actor (Vikings) - Fife, Scotland
1989-0620 Eve Harlow* Canadian-Israeli actress/to Israel as an infant - Moscow. Russia, Soviet Union - IMDb
1989-0626 Lü Huihui* 吕会会 athlete (javelin/WS) - Xinxiang, China
1989-0628 Joe Kovacs* athlete (shot put/WG) - Nazareth, PA USA
1989-0629 Maciej Szymon Ciesla* graphics designer - Katowice, Poland (2016/27)
1989-0629 Kevin K.** Finnish IT program developer - Stockholm, Sweden
1989-0629 Riva Taylor* singer/songwriter/performer - Hammersmith, London, England
1989-0630 Asbel Kiprop* middle-distance runner/OG - Uasin Gishu, Kenya
1989-0701
1989-0702 Alex Morgan* football player - San Dimas, CA USA
1989-0705 Juliana Evans* model/actress/TV personality - Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia
1989-0705 Whitney Wolfe Herd* founder of Bumble, Inc/co-founder of Tinder - Salt Lake City, UT USA
1989-0706
1989-0707 Chris Reed* American-Japanese figure skater - Kalamazoo, MI USA (2020/30)
1989-0708 Emma Kimiläinen- Liuski* racing driver/radio host - Helsinki, Finland
1989-0708 Mélissa Le Nevé* sport climber - Bourdeaux, France
1989-0708 Miki Liukkonen* writer/ poet/musician - Oulu, Finland (2023/33)
1989-0709 Kiyono Yasuno* voice actress/ singer - Kyoto, Japan
1989-0710 Sophie Clarke* Survivor S23 Contestant - Willsboro, NY USA
1989-0712 Hilary Knight* hockey player - Palo Alto, CA USA
1989-0713
1989-0714 Alisha Wainwright* actress/w Jamaican-Haitian ancestry - Orlando, FL USA
1989-0716 Gareth Bale* football player - Cardiff, Wales
1989-0718 Jamie Benn* hockey player/OG - Victoria, BC Canada
1989-0720
1989-0721 Rory Culkin* actor - New York, NY USA
1989-0721 Juno Temple* actress - Hammersmith, London, England
1989-0722 Laura Oras** - Finland
1989-0722 Baltasar Breki Samper* actor/son of Baltasar Kormákur - Reykjavik, Iceland
1989-0723 Daniel Radcliffe* actor - Fulham, London, England
1989-0724 Eko Yuli Irawan* weightlifter/OS - Metro, Lampung, Indonesia
1989-0725
1989-0726 Ivian Sarcos* Miss World 2011/model - Guanare, Portuguesa, Venezuela
1989-0726 Eemi Tervaportti* volleyball player - Äetsä, Finland
1989-0727
1989-0729 Kosovare Asllani* football player - Kristianstad, Sweden
1989-0731 Victoria Azarenka* tennis player - Minsk, Belorus, Soviet Union
1989-0731 Jessica Williams* actress - Los Angeles, CA USA
1989-0731 Zelda Williams* actress/ director/daughter of Robin Williams - New York City, NY USA
1989-0801
1989-0802 Priscilla Betti* singer/dancer - Nice, France
1989-0802 Oona Sormunen* athlete (javelin) - Kitee, Finland
1989-0806 Yu Wenxia* Miss World 2012/singer/television host - Shangzhi, Heilongjiang, China
1989-0811 Úrsula Corberó* actress (La Casa de Papel) - Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
1989-0811 Álex Quiñónez* sprinter - Esmeraldas, Ecuador
1989-0815 Jakub Vorácek* hockey player/WG - Kladno, Czechoslovakia
1989-0816 Tecia Torres* mixed martial artist - Fall River, MA USA
1989-0820 Judd Trump* snooker player - Whitchurch, Bristol, England
1989-0821 Hayden Panettiere* actress - Palisades, NY USA
1989-0822 Langley Fox* (b Hemingway) artist/ actress/daughter of Mariel Hemingway - Sun Valley, ID USA
1989-0825
1989-0827 Dawid Tomala* race walker/OG - Tychy, Poland
1989-0828 César Azpilicueta* football player - Pamplona, Spain
1989-0828 Valtteri Bottas* racing driver - Nastola, Finland
1989-0829 Charlotte Ritchie* actress - Clapham, London, England
1989-0830 Bohdan Bondarenko* athlete (high jump/WG) - Kharkiv, Ukraine, Soviet Union
1989-0831 Christoffer Strandberg* actor/ voice actor/comedian - Siuntio, Finland
1989-0901 Daniel Sturridge* football player - Birmingham, England
1989-0902 Adam Kszczot* middle-distance runner - Opoczno, Poland
1989-0907 Hannah John-Kamen* actress - Anlaby, Humberside, England
1989-0907 Jonathan Majors* actor - Lompoc, CA USA
1989-0908 Gylfi Sigurdsson* football player - Reykjavik, Iceland
1989-0908 Tomoki Sato* 佐藤 友祈 Paralympic athlete (sprinter)/OG - Japan
1989-0910
1989-0911
1989-0914 Ryan Broussard* actor - Breaux Bridge, LA USA
1989-0914 Jacqueline Byers* actress - Toronto, ON Canada
1989-0914 Alex Killorn* hockey player - Halifax, NS Canada
1989-0916 Braden Holtby* hockey goalie/SC - Lloydminster, SK Canada
1989-0917 Danielle Brooks* actress - Augusta, GA USA
1989-0918 Chris Eubank Jr.* boxer - Hove, East Sussex, England
1989-0920
1989-0922 Sabine Lisicki* tennis player - Troisdorf, Germany
1989-0922 Dina Shihabi* actress/to U.S. at age 18 - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
1989-0925 Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko* Ukrainian-Israeli athlete (triple jump/WS & long jump) - Pereiaslav, Ukraine, Soviet Union
1989-0927 Idalys Ortiz* judoka/OS - Pinal del Rio, Cuba
1989-0928 Mirela Demireva* athlete (high jump) - Sofia, Bulgaria
1989-0928 Raphael Holzdeppe* athlete (pole vault) - Kaiserslautern, Germany
1989-1001 Brie Larson* actress - Sacramento, CA USA
1989-1002 Frederik Andersen* hockey goalie - Herning, Denmark
1989-1002 Josh Bailey* hockey player - Bowmanville, ON Canada
1989-1004 Dakota Johnson* actress - Austin, TX USA
1989-1005 Raoua Tlili* Paralympic athlete (shot put& discus)/OG - Tunisia
1989-1006 Tyler Ennis* hockey player - Edmonton, AB Canada
1989-1008 Armand Traoré* football player - Châtenay-Malabry, France
1989-1011 Michelle Wie* golf player - Honolulu, HI USA
1989-1014 Mia Wasikowska* actress - Canberra, Australia
1989-1018 Matthew Centrowitz Jr.* middle-distance runner - Beltsville, MD USA
1989-1020 Colin Wilson* hockey player - Greenwich, CT USA
1989-1023 Andriy Yarmolenko* Ukrainian football player - Leningrad, Russia, Soviet Union
1989-1025 Amber English* sport shooter/OG - Colorado Springs, CO USA
1989-1030
1989-1101 Saila Saari* hockey player/OB - Alavus, Finland
1989-1102
1989-1103 Jefferson White* actor - Mount Vernon, IA USA
1989-1104 Damian Warner* athlete (decathlon) - London, ON Canada
1989-1106 Aaron Hernandez* Am. football player/convicted killer - Bristol, CT USA
1989-1109 Gianluca Bezzina* physician/ singer - Qrendi, Malta
1989-1109 Marcus Daniell* tennis player - Masterton, New Zealand
1989-1109 David Evans* darts player - Preston, England
1989-1109 Billy Howle* actor - Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England
1989-1110 Taron Egerton* actor/singer - Birkenhead, Merseyside, England
1989-1112 Raymond Ablack* actor/comedian/with Indo-Guyanese background - Toronto, ON Canada
1989-1112 Jaakko Rissanen* hockey player - Kuopio, Finland
1989-1120
1989-1121 Jimmy Hayes* hockey player - Boston, MA USA (2021/31)
1989-1124 Mike Hoffman* hockey player - Kitchener, ON Canada
1989-1124 Lukas Hradecky* Finnish football goalie - Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
1989-1129 Jared Spurgeon* hockey player - Edmonton, AB Canada
1989-1130 Adelaide Clemens* actress - Brisbane, Australia
1989-1130 Ferguson Cheruiyot Rotich* middle-distance runner - Kericho, Kenya
1989-1201 Safiya Burkhanova* Paralympic athlete (shot put)/OG - Uzbekistan
1989-1202 Meeri Räisänen* hockey goalie/OG - Tampere, Finland
1989-1205 Patrick Mullins* jockey/ trainer - Ireland
1989-1207 Nicholas Hoult* actor - Wokingham, Berkshire, England
1989-1207 Caleb Landry Jones* actor/ musician - Garland, TX USA
1989-1208 Drew Doughty* hockey player/OG - London, ON Canada
1989-1210
1989-1213 Hellen Obiri* middle-distance runner/OS - Kisii, Kenya
1989-1213 Katherine Schwarzenegger* author/daughter of A.S. - Los Angeles, CA USA
1989-1216 Mikkel Bødker* hockey player - Brøndby, Denmark
1989-1219 Daniel Morcombe* homicide victim - Woombye, QLD Australia (2003/13)
1989-1220
1989-1222 Jordin Sparks* singer/ actress - Phienix, AZ USA
1989-1224 Daniel Durant* actor - Detroit, MI USA
1989-1228 George Blagden* actor - London, England
1989-1229 Harri Säteri* hockey goalie/OG - Toijala, Finland
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