Today in History for Year 1989

Months in Year 1989: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 873

Jan 1st - NYC transit fare rises from $1.00 to $1.15
Jan 1st - Year of the Young Reader begins
Jan 2nd - Notre Dame beats West Virginia for college football championship
Jan 2nd - UCLA wins a record 7th consecutive bowl game
Jan 3rd - Jim & Tammy Bakker return to TV (Oy Vey!)
Jan 3rd - Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its 1st commercial advertisement
Jan 4th - Comet Tempel 1 at perihelion
Jan 4th - US F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean
Jan 4th - VP Bush is 1st since VP Van Buren to declare himself president
Jan 5th - 2 French TV newsmen arrested for trying to plant fake bombs on 3 airlines at JFK airport in security test
Jan 5th - Baseball signs $400M with ESPN, showing 175 games in 1990
Jan 7th - Akhito becomes emperor of Japan
Jan 7th - Intl Conference on Limitation of Chemical Weapons opens in Paris
Jan 7th - NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers longest win streak (11)
Jan 7th - Cleve Cavs block 21 NY Knick shots tying NBA regulation game record
Jan 8th - "42nd Street" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 3,486 perfs
Jan 8th - "Starlight Express" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 761 perfs
Jan 8th - Boeing 737-400 crashes in England, 46 die
Jan 8th - Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons
Jan 8th - Beginning of Japanese Heisei era.
Jan 9th - "Pat Sajak Show" premieres on CBS
Jan 9th - Johnny Bench & Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
Jan 11th - 140 nations agree to ban chemical weapons (poison gas, etc)
Jan 11th - Denver Nuggets' rookie Jerome Lane misses 7 free throws in a game against Milwaukee, one missed by 2 feet
Jan 11th - Kindergarten student caught with loaded handgun at Bronx school
Jan 12th - 6 claim to survive in rubble, 35 days after Armenian quake (hoax)
Jan 12th - Idi Amin expelled from Zaire
Jan 13th - "Friday the 13th" virus strikes hundreds of IBM computers in Britain
Jan 13th - "Ryan's Hope" ends 13½ year run on ABC-TV
Jan 13th - Computers across Britain hit by "Friday the 13th" virus
Jan 13th - Jerry Parks, Oklahoma defensive back, charged with shooting a teammate
Jan 13th - Ruins of Mashkan-shapir (occupied 2050-1720 BC) found in Iraq
Jan 13th - Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz begins 1-year jail sentence
Jan 14th - "Romance/Romance" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 297 perfs
Jan 14th - 1,000 muslims burn Salman Rushdies' "Satanic Verses" in Bradford England
Jan 14th - 29 year old French woman gives birth to sextuplets in Paris
Jan 14th - Former Belgian premier Paul Vanden Boeynants kidnapped
Jan 15th - "Ain't Misbehavin'" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 176 perfs
Jan 15th - 10th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 35 awards
Jan 15th - Betsy King wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic
Jan 15th - Big John Studd wins WWF's 1st Royal Rumble
Jan 15th - Cerberal Palsy telethon raises 22,600,000
Jan 16th - Police arrest writer Vaclav Havel in Prague
Jan 16th - USSR announces plan for 2-yr manned mission to Mars
Jan 17th - Al Arbour wins his 600th NHL game as coach
Jan 17th - Gunman opens fire in California schoolyard; 5 students slain, 30 wounded
Jan 17th - Murden & Metz are 1st women to reach South Pole overland (on skis)
Jan 17th - Phoenix Suns cancel game at Miami Heat, due to racial unrest in Miami
Jan 18th - Astronomers discover pulsar in remnants of Supernova 1987A (LMC)
Jan 18th - IBM announces earnings up 10.4% in 1988
Jan 18th - Otis Redding, Dion, Rolling Stones, Temptations & Stevie Wonder
Jan 18th - West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win the World Series Cup
New York Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner Jan 19th - Pres Reagan pardons George Steinbrenner for illegal funds for Nixon
Jan 20th - Bush inaugurated as 41st president & Quayle becomes 44th vice pres
Jan 20th - Wayne Holdsworth takes a wicket 1st ball in 1st-class cricket
Jan 20th - Reagan becomes 1st pres elected in a "0" year, since 1840, to leave office alive
Jan 21st - A woman is assaulted & raped in room of an Oklahoma football player
Jan 21st - Wayne Gretzky passes Marcel Dionne to become NHL's 2nd all time scorer
Jan 22nd - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Jan 22nd - Superbowl XXIII: SF 49ers beat Cin Bengals, 20-16 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Jerry Rice, San Francisco, WR
Jan 23rd - Challenge to "who is a Jew" law filed in Israeli Supreme Court
Jan 23rd - NBA New Jersey Nets begin a 32+ game road losing streak
Jan 24th - 1st reported case of AIDS transmitted by heterosexual oral sex
Jan 25th - Augusto Alcalde, 1st South American Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission
Jan 25th - Michael Jordan scores his 10,000th NBA point in his 5th season
Jan 25th - Yank owner George Steinbrenner meets with Pope John Paul II
Jan 26th - "Black & Blue" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 829 performances
Basketball Superstar Michael Jordan Jan 26th - AT&T reports 1st loss in 103 years; $1.67 B in 1988
Jan 26th - Allan Border takes 7-46 against the West Indies at the SCG
Jan 26th - Madison Sq Garden announces 2-year $100 M renovation plan
Jan 26th - Test debut of Mark Taylor, Australia v West Indies, Sydney
Jan 26th - US computer security expert warns of catastrophic virus
Jan 27th - German war criminals Fischer & Aus der Funten freed
Jan 27th - Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) begins NBA free throw streak of 57 games
Jan 27th - Okla's linebacker, Mark VanKeirsblilck assaults an Ok grad student
Jan 28th - 46th Golden Globes: Rainman, Working Girl
Jan 28th - 63rd Australian Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Helena Sukova (64 64)
Jan 28th - Boon completes 7th Test century, 149 v WI at SCG
Jan 29th - 77th Australian Men Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Miloslav Mecir (62 62 62)
Jan 29th - Cleveland's Chris Dudley misses 5 free throws during 1 foul attempt
Jan 29th - Dottie Mochrie wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic
Jan 29th - Dow jumps 38.06 recoups 508-pt loss since Oct 1987; index at 2,256.43
Tennis Player Steffi Graf Jan 29th - Episcopal church appoints 1st female bishop
Jan 29th - L I preacher Gene Profeta pleads guilty to tax-evasion
Jan 29th - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 34-3
Jan 29th - Orlando Arena opens
Jan 29th - USSR's Phobos II enters Martian orbit
Jan 29th - Game-winning RBI, official statistic dropped after 9 years of use NY Mets Keith Hernandez is the all-time leader with 129
Jan 30th - 16th American Music Award: Randy Travis & George Michael wins
Jan 30th - 5 Pharaoh sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor
Jan 30th - Joel Steinberg found guilty of 1st degree manslaughter of daughter
Jan 30th - Last day of 1st class cricket for Dav Whatmore
Jan 30th - Olympian, Bruce Kimball, is sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing 2 teenagers in a drunk driving accident
Jan 30th - The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan closes.
Feb 1st - Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 at perihelion
Feb 1st - Princess Diane of England visits NYC
Feb 1st - The Western Australian towns of Kalgoorlie and Boulder amalgamate to form the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
Rock Vocalist George Michael Feb 2nd - 0°F (-18°C) or below in 15 US states
Feb 2nd - FW de Klerk replaces Botha as South Africa's National Party leader
Feb 2nd - NL announces Yanks' broadcaster Bill White will be 1st black president

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 168

Jan 1st - Marvin Austin, American football player
Jan 3rd - Anya Kop, Russian model and America's Next Top Model contestant
Jan 3rd - Alex D. Linz, American actor
Jan 4th - Graham Rahal, American race car driver
Jan 5th - Krisztián Németh, Hungarian footballer
Jan 6th - Baby lion-tailed macaques, at Woodland Park Zoo (Seattle)
Jan 7th - Emiliano Insúa, Argentine footballer
Jan 9th - Michaella Krajicek, Dutch tennis player
Jan 13th - Bryan Arguez, American soccer player
Jan 13th - Triinu Kivilaan, Estonian singer
Jan 14th - Sextuplets, Paris France, (to a 29-year-old woman)
Jan 25th - Sheryfa Luna, French singer
Jan 26th - Emily Hughes, American figure skater
Jan 30th - Khleo Thomas, American actor and rapper
Feb 1st - Hurricane Chris, American rapper
Feb 3rd - Slobodan Rajković, Serbian footballer
Feb 3rd - Ryne Sanborn, American actor
Feb 5th - Cristine Reyes, Filipino actress
Feb 5th - Jeremy Sumpter, American actor
Feb 6th - Craig Cathcart, Irish footballer
Feb 7th - Louisa Lytton - British actress
Feb 8th - Danielle Harmer, English actress
Feb 9th - Wu Chia-ching, Taiwanese pool player
Feb 9th - Gia Farrell, American singer
Feb 13th - Rhys Palmer, Australian footballer
Feb 13th - Rodrigo Possebon, Brazilian Footballer
Feb 13th - Carly McKillip, Canadian actress
Feb 19th - L A Baby orangutan, at Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle
Feb 20th - Melanie Leishman, Canadian actress
Feb 21st - Corbin Bleu, American actor and singer
Feb 21st - Kristin Herrera, American actress
Feb 21st - Scout Taylor-Compton, American actress
Feb 21st - Josh Walker, English footballer
Feb 22nd - Alia Sabur, American college educator
Feb 23rd - Evan Bates, American ice dancer
Feb 24th - Kosta Koufos, American-Greek basketball player
Feb 25th - Tony Oller, American actor
Feb 27th - Kelly Breeding, American singer from B5
Feb 28th - Zhang Liyin, Chinese R&B singer
Mar 1st - Sonya Kitchell, American singer
Mar 1st - Carlos Vela, Mexican footballer
Mar 3rd - Erica Morningstar, Canadian Swimmer, and record holder.
Mar 5th - Jake Lloyd, American actor
Mar 7th - Gerald Anderson, Filipino actor and model
Mar 9th - Christina Broccolini, Canadian TV presenter
Mar 11th - Anton Yelchin, Russian-born actor
Mar 14th - Oliver Bernsen, son of Corbin Bernsen & Amanda Pays
Mar 15th - Caitlin Wachs, actress (Chloe Waters-Profiler)
Mar 16th - Peaches Geldof, English Dosser
Mar 16th - Theo Walcott, English footballer
Mar 16th - Blake Griffin, American basketball player
Mar 20th - Tamim Iqbal, Bangladeshi cricketer
Mar 25th - Chicken Kentucky, 1st partial birth in space (chicken)
Mar 25th - Alyson Michalka, American actress/singer
Mar 25th - Scott Sinclair, English footballer
Mar 28th - Marek Suchý, Czech footballer
Mar 28th - Mira Leung, Canadian figure skater
Mar 28th - Afrikan Boy, a Nigerian rapper
Mar 28th - Lukas Jutkiewicz, English footballer
Apr 1st - Vietoris Krisztián, German racecar driver
Apr 3rd - Israel Falou, Australian Rugby League player
Apr 7th - Franco Di Santo, Argentine Footballer
Apr 8th - Hitomi Takahashi, Japanese singer
Actor Haley Joel Osment (Apr 10th) Apr 10th - Haley Joel Osment, LA California, actor (Matt-Jeff Foxworthy Show)
Apr 18th - Alia Shawkat, American actress
Apr 19th - Fiona MacGillivray, Canadian vocalist (The Cottars)
Apr 23rd - Nicole Vaidišová, Czech tennis player
Apr 25th - Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, 11th Panchen Lama
Apr 25th - Robbie Tarrant, Australian football player
Apr 27th - Emily Rios, American actress
May 4th - Rory McIlroy, Holywood Northern Ireland, Professional Golfer
May 5th - Chris Brown, American singer
May 6th - Dominika Cibulkova, Slovakian tennis player
May 10th - Lindsey Shaw, American actress
May 11th - Giovani dos Santos, Mexican footballer
May 11th - Ace Hood, American rapper
May 24th - Tara Correa-McMullen, American actress (d. 2005)
May 29th - Danielle Riley Keough, grand daughter of Elvis Presley
11th Panchen Lama Gedhun Choekyi Nyima (Apr 25th) May 30th - Kevin Covais, American singer
Jun 2nd - Freddy Adu, Ghanaian-American footballer
Jun 3rd - Katie Hoff, American swimmer
Jun 7th - Michael Joseph Tamboli, Eldesburg Md, born 01:23:45 PM on 6-7-89
Jun 8th - Gary Wilson, Scottish Musician
Jun 11th - Jeff Linton Osbourne, son of Jeffrey & Sheri
Jun 13th - Lisa Tucker, American singer
Jun 14th - Lucy Hale, American actress
Jun 14th - Courtney Halverson, American actress
Jun 18th - Renee Olstead, American singer and actress
Jun 20th - Christopher Mintz-Plasse, American actor
Jun 27th - Matthew Lewis, English actor
Jun 27th - Travis Curtis, American Artist/ Amateur Skateboarder
Jul 1st - Mitch Hewer, English actor
Jul 1st - Hannah Murray, English actress
Jul 5th - Joseph King, American musician (Canvas)
Jul 7th - Giannoulis Fakinos, Greek footballer
Jul 11th - David Henrie, American actor
Jul 13th - Sayumi Michishige, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
Jul 14th - Sean Flynn-Amir, American actor
Jul 15th - Tristan Wilds, American actor
Jul 16th - Gareth Bale, Welsh footballer

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 21 of 21

Jan 18th - Candace Thomas marries Steve Garvey
Jan 21st - "Falcon Crest" actor Lorenzo Lamas (31) weds actress Kathleen Kinmont (23) at the Graceland Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas
Feb 17th - Whitesnake's rocker David Coverdale weds actress Tawny Kitaen
Feb 18th - Steve Garvey marries Candace Thomas while at same time being accused of fathering children by 2 other women
Mar 4th - Actress Phoebe Cates marries actor Kevin Kline
Apr 8th - Entertainment Tonight's Mary Hart marries producer Burt Sugarman
Apr 15th - South African/British Olympic runner Zola Budd marries
Apr 29th - Rock band Bon Jovi lead singer Jon Bon Jovi (27) weds Dorothea Hurley (26) at Graceland Chapel in Las Vegas
May 28th - Delta Burke (Designing Women) weds Gerald McRaney (Major Dad)
Jun 2nd - Rolling Stones Bill Wyman marries Mandy Smith
Jun 3rd - Country singer Rebe McEntire weds her manager Narvel Blackstone at Emerald Bay in Lake Tahoe, Nevada
Jun 18th - John Wayne Bobitt marries Lorena L Gallo
Jun 26th - Melanie Griffith & Don Johnson marry for 2nd time
Jul 1st - Hugh Hefner (Playboy editor) weds playmate Kimberly Conrad
Aug 23rd - "The Cars" lead singer and guitarist Ric Ocasek (40) weds model Paulina Porizkova (24)
Aug 30th - Roman Polanski marries actress Emmanuelle Seigner
Sep 2nd - Greatest NBA basketball player of all time Michael Jordan (26) weds Juanita Vanoy (30) at the Little White Chapel in Las Vegas
Sep 16th - Singer Natalie Cole marries record producer Andre Fisher
Oct 7th - Radio talk show host Larry King weds Julie Alexander
Actor David Hasselhoff (Dec 9th) Dec 9th - "Baywatch" actor David Hasselhoff (37) weds actress Pamela Bach (26) at the Little Brown Church in Studio City, California
Dec 31st - Actress Annabella Sciorra (Jungle Fever) weds Joe Petruzzi

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 6 of 6

Feb 14th - Robin Givens is granted a divorce from Mike Tyson in the Dominican Republic
Feb 16th - Jane Fonda & Tom Hayden separate after 16 years of marriage
Mar 1st - Julianne Philips & Bruce Springsteen divorce
Mar 1st - "Baywatch" actor David Hasselhoff (37) divorces actress Catherine Hickland (33) after nearly 5 years of marriage
May 18th - Lisa Strawberry files for divorce from Darryl
Jun 1st - Robin Givens & Mike Tyson granted final divorce in NJ

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 329

Jan 3rd - Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
Jan 6th - Hirohito, Japan`s emperor (1922-89), dies at 87 after 62-year reign
Jan 8th - Johnny Jordaan, [Jan van Musscher], Dutch folk singer, dies at 64
Jan 8th - Kenneth McMillan, actor (Malone, Concrete Beat), dies of heart attack at 56
Jan 9th - Bill Terry, baseball player (b. 1898)
Jan 10th - Herbert Morrison, American radio reporter (b. 1905)
Jan 10th - Colin Winchester, Australian Assistant Police Commissioner, murdered (b. 1933)
Jan 13th - Joe Spinell, actor (Maniac, Star Crash, Strike Force), dies at 51
Jan 15th - Wilf Slack, cricketer (whilst bat in Gambia England player 1986), dies
Jan 16th - Pierre Boileau, screenwriter (Vertigo), dies at 82
Jan 16th - Romo Vincent, actor (Naked Jungle), dies
Jan 16th - Trey Wilson, actor (Bull Durham, Twins, Raising Arizona), dies
Jan 17th - Sterling A Brown, US poet/critic (Southern Road), dies at 87
Jan 18th - Bruce Chatwin, British writer, dies at 49
Jan 19th - Norma Varden, actress (Loose in London), dies
Jan 20th - Beatrice Lillie, actress (Thoroughly Modern Millie), dies at 94
Jan 20th - Alamgir Kabir, Bangladeshi film director (b. 1938)
Jan 21st - Billy Tipton, American musician (b. 1914)
Jan 21st - Carl Furillo, American Baseball player (b. 1922)
Painter Salvador Dali (Jan 23rd) Jan 23rd - Salvador Dalí, Catalan artist (b. 1904)
Jan 24th - Ted Bundy, serial killer of up to 100 women, executed in Florida at 42
Jan 24th - George Knudson, Canadian golfer (b. 1937)
Jan 26th - Paul Daels, Flemish chairman (IJzerbedevaart committee), dies
Jan 27th - Thomas Sopwith, British aviation pioneer (b. 1888)
Jan 27th - Bayani Casimiro, Filipino dancer and actor (b. 1918)
Jan 29th - Halina Konopacka, Polish athlete (b. 1900)
Jan 31st - Jack Douglas, humorist (My Brother Was an Only Child), dies at 80
Jan 31st - Yasushi Akutagawa, composer, dies at 63
Feb 1st - Elaine de Kooning, American artist (b. 1918)
Feb 2nd - John Cassavetes, US actor (Rosemary's Baby)/director, dies at 59
Feb 2nd - Ondrej Nepela, Slovak figure skater (b. 1951)
Feb 3rd - John Cassavetes, actor/director (Husbands, Dirty Dozen), dies at 59
Feb 4th - Kenneth "Jethro" Burns, country singer (Homer & Jethro), dies at 69
Feb 5th - Joe Raposa, composer/songwriter (Sesame Street), dies at 51
Feb 6th - Andre Cayatte, dies
Feb 6th - Barbara Tuchman, historian (Guns of August-Pulitzer), dies at 77
Feb 6th - Chris Gueffroy, East German attempted defector (b. 1968)
Feb 6th - Osbourne Ruddock, Jamaican Dub music performer (b. 1941)
Feb 8th - Maurits Kok, Dutch writer/poet (Railroad Strike), dies at 81
Feb 9th - Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist (b. 1928)
Feb 10th - Dan Kelly, NHL sportscaster, dies at 52, "He shoots, he scores!"
Feb 11th - George O'Hanlon, actor/director (Bop Girl, Zamba), dies at 71
Feb 12th - Mauritius Balfoort, French/Flemish director, dies at 83
Feb 12th - Thomas Bernhard, Dutch/Austrian writer (Heldenplatz), dies at 58
Feb 13th - Wayne Hays, American politician (b. 1911)
Feb 14th - James Bond, American ornithologist (b. 1900)
Feb 17th - Lefty Gomez, pitching great (NY Yankees), dies at 80
Feb 19th - Jaap van de Merwe, Dutch journalist/cabareter (Hadjememaar), dies
Feb 19th - Merwe, journalist/cabaret performer (Hadjememaar), dies
Feb 21st - Alex Thépot, French footballer (b. 1906)
Feb 22nd - Joan Woodbury, actress (Super Sleuth, Northwest Trail), dies
Feb 24th - Sparky Adams, American baseball player (b. 1894)
Feb 26th - Roy Eldridge, American musician (b. 1911)
Feb 27th - Conrad Lorenz, Austria zoologist (Nobel 1973), dies
Feb 27th - Joe Silver, actor (Rage, Rapid, Deathtrap, Shivers), dies at 66
Feb 27th - Konrad Lorenz, Austria zoologist (Nobel 1973), dies at 85
Feb 27th - Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (b. 1897)
Feb 28th - Hermann Burger, writer, dies at 46
Mar 1st - Henk van Stipriaan, Dutch radio host, dies at 64
Mar 1st - Josephine van Gasteren, Dutch actress/dir (Bluejackets), dies at 72
Mar 4th - Tiny Grimes, American jazz and R&B guitarist (b. 1916)
Mar 6th - Harry Andrews, actor (Equus, Helen of Troy, Hill), dies at 77
Mar 9th - Robert Mapplethorpe, US photographer, dies at 42
Mar 11th - Johan Fleerackers, Flemish linguist, dies at 57
Mar 11th - James Kee, American politician (b. 1917)
Mar 11th - John J. McCloy, United States Secretary of War (b. 1895)
Mar 12th - Maurice Evans, actor (Bewitched, MacBeth), dies at 87
Mar 14th - Edward Abbey (environmental author), dies after surgery at 62
Mar 14th - Zita, Empress of Austria/Queen of Hungary, dies at 96
Mar 15th - Muhammad Jameel Didi, Maldivian poet (b. 1915)
Mar 17th - Merritt Butrick, actor (Shy People, Wired to Kill), dies of AIDS at 29
Mar 18th - Piet Kruiver, Dutch soccer player, dies at 51
Mar 18th - William Challee, actor (Desperate, Moonchild), dies
Mar 19th - Alan Civil, English French horn player (b. 1929)
Mar 21st - Milton Frome, actor (Family Jewels), dies
Mar 27th - May Allison, actress (Youth for Salem Men of Steel), dies
Mar 29th - Bernard Blier, actor (Les Miserables, Women & War), dies at 73
Mar 30th - Dort Clark, actor (In Harm's Way), dies
Apr 1st - Henk Gortzak, Dutch MP (CPN/PSP), dies at 57
Apr 3rd - Norman Woolard, actor (Guilty, Saul & David, Medeleine), dies at 79
Apr 5th - María Cristina Gómez, Salvadoran Teacher (b. 1938)
Apr 7th - Tikhon Toropets, patriarch of Russian Orthodox/saint, dies at 123(?)
Apr 10th - Joan Barry, dies at 85
Apr 11th - Henk van Galen Last, Dutch journalist, dies at 68
Apr 12th - Abbie Hoffman, yippie peace activist of the 60's, dies at 52
Middle/welterweight championship boxer Sugar Ray Robinson (Apr 12th) Apr 12th - Sugar Ray Robinson, heavyweight boxing champ, dies at 67 of Alzheimer
Apr 12th - Gerald Flood, British actor (b. 1927)
Apr 14th - Lance Pierre, cricketer (Test WI v Engl 1948, DNB, 7 overs 0-28), dies
Apr 15th - Charles Vanel, dies at 96
Apr 15th - Hu Yaobang, general sec of Chinese Commnist Party, dies
Apr 15th - Nesuhi Ertegün, American record executive (b. 1917)
Apr 16th - Tawfieq Yusuf Awwaad, Lebanese writer, dies
Apr 17th - Charles Lampkin, dies
Apr 19th - Daphne Du Maurier, English writer (Rebecca, Jamaica Inn), dies at 82
Apr 21st - James Kirkwood, actor/writer (Devil's Holiday), dies at 64
Apr 21st - Princess Dukhye of Korea (b. 1912)
Apr 22nd - Huey Newton, US, Black Panther leader, shot dead at 47
Apr 25th - George Coulouris, actor (Papillon, Runaway Bus), dies at 85
Apr 26th - Lucille Ball, comedienne (I Love Lucy), dies of heart attack at 78
Apr 27th - Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (b. 1894)