About the day » Thursday January 26, 1989Calender converter

• Tyler John Melhorn

• Andries Bergsma (89), Sneek
• A.E. van der Meer (65)
• Ardanelle Abigail McCooll (78), San Francisco, California, Verenigde Staten
• Sluiter, Anna Gerardina (56), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Agnes Cecelia Christeson (83), Clinton, Big Stone, Minnesota, United States
• Alida van WEERINGEN (86), Soest
• Darren MACDONALD (20), St. Catharines, Niagara, Ontario, Canada
• Albert Z Vellante (60), Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Charley Veldkamp (75), Newaygo, Michigan
• Christiaan Willem Bonnes (66), Amsterdam

• 1986 » Gerald Green, American basketball player
• 1986 » Kim Jae-joong, South Korean singer, songwriter, actor, director and designer.
• 1987 » Sebastian Giovinco, Italian footballer
• 1988 » Dimitrios Chondrokoukis, Greek high jumper
• 1989 » Emily Hughes, American figure skater
• 1989 » MarShon Brooks, American basketball player
• 1990 » Nina Zander, German tennis player
• 1990 » Peter Sagan, Slovak professional cyclist
• 1990 » Sergio Pérez, Mexican race car driver
• 1991 » Tom Meechan, English footballer

• 1983 » Bear Bryant, American football player and coach (b. 1913)
• 1985 » Kenny Clarke, American jazz drummer and bandleader (b. 1914)
• 1990 » Bob Gerard, English race car driver and businessman (b. 1914)
• 1990 » Lewis Mumford, American sociologist and historian (b. 1895)
• 1992 » José Ferrer, Puerto Rican-American actor (b. 1912)
• 1993 » Jan Gies, Dutch businessman and humanitarian (b. 1905)
• 1993 » Jeanne Sauvé, Canadian journalist and politician, 23rd Governor General of Canada (b. 1922)
• 1993 » Robert Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and painter (b. 1912)
• 1996 » Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg (b. 1921)
• 1996 » Harold Brodkey, American author and academic (b. 1930)

1. Thomas
2. Jan
3. Robert
4. Michael
5. Mark
6. Niels
7. Jeroen
8. Kevin
9. Patrick
10. Peter
11. Robin
12. Nick
13. David
14. Johannes
15. Sander
16. Tim

1. Kim
2. Maria
3. Laura
4. Linda
5. Jessica
6. Sanne
7. Chantal
8. Anne
9. Lisanne
10. Anna
11. Johanna
12. Stephanie
13. Sarah
14. Samantha
15. Charlotte
16. Nicole

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 14.8 million citizens.
• April 15 » Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in China.
• April 26 » People's Daily publishes the April 26 Editorial which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests.
• July 20 » Burma's ruling junta puts opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest.
• August 25 » Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the second to last planet in the Solar System at the time.
• October 17 » The East German Politburo votes to remove Erich Honecker from his role as General Secretary.
• December 28 » A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, killing 13 people.

The temperature on January 26, 1989 was between -1.6 °C and 6.6 °C and averaged 1.3 °C. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (85%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.