Discover what happened on 19 April 1989 in history! This day marks a series of notable events, famous births, and significant deaths. Explore the details below to learn more about the historical happenings of this day. On this day, history comes alive!
Deaths
- Ferdinand aus der Fünten (German SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator (1909–1989))
- Daphne du Maurier (British writer)
- René Kaech (Swiss author (1909–1989))
- Theo van der Nahmer (Dutch sculptor (1917-1989))
- Yevgeny Burenkov (Soviet actor (1924-1989))
- Grigory Glazunov
- Gale Staley (American baseball player (1899-1989))
- George Paxton (American musician (1914–1989))
- George Whitmore (American writer)
- Hurst Robins Anderson (president of American University from 1952 until 1968)
- James Edgar Walker (Canadian politician (1911–1989))
- Maksimilian Maksimilianovitsj Gollerbach (botanist (1907-1989))
- Shin’ichi Nishiyama (Japanese painter (1906-1989))
- Nicomedes García (Spanish businessperson (1901-1989))
- Svida Vasily Ivanovich (sculptor (1913-1989))
- Attila Zágoni
- Alain Lerond (French university teacher)
- Chen Yuguang
- Andreu Cortines Jaumot (Spanish politician)
- George Mathison (Footballer (1909-1989))
- Valter Metti (Estonian teacher and local politician)
- Johannes Otepalu (Estonian farmer and military personnel)
- Matei Balș (Romanian doctor)
- Iosif Keber
- Jüri Härmatare (Estonian lawyer)
- Mother Leone Ryan (Australian Sister of St Joseph and educator)
- Harry Marker (American football player (1910–1989))
- Harold Isherwood (Anglican bishop)
- C. W. L. Bevan (Welsh chemist, academic, and academic administrator (1920-1989))
- Robert Amory (American lawyer and civil servant (1915–1989))
- Yaroslav Hodysh (Ukrainian Soviet builder)
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- W. Deming Lewis (American university president)
- Marcel Dugué Mac Carthy
- Sergey Aleksandrovich Gabov (Soviet physicist (1948-1989))
- Günter H. Wenzel (Ph.D. The Pennsylvania State University 1967)
- Mona Palma (American actress (1897 – 1989))
- Eugénie Trouillon (Born in Lyon, France. 1898-1989)
- George Sweet Gibb
- Dorothy Owtram (British WWI Women’s Land Army and WWII ARP warden (1896-1989))
- Nikolai Sandrov
Events
- Central Park jogger case (1989 crime involving a violent attack on a jogger in New York City)