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LEAD: Peter V. Ueberroth and his group of investors were negotiating again yesterday with representatives of the Texas Air Corporation for the purchase of Eastern Airlines. People involved in the talks said the sale of the carrier to the former baseball commissioner was imminent.
LEAD: Breaking with its traditional Democratic allies, the Liberal Party will endorse a Republican, Rudolph W. Giuliani, for mayor of New York City.
LEAD: The countries that manage global finance today approved the first internationally organized effort to reduce the $1.3 trillion of debt that has paralyzed much growth in the developing world, especially Latin America.
LEAD: A new round of incentives came too late to help domestic car sales in the final reporting period of March, leaving the month with the weakest annualized sales rate in 17 months.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 5, 1989, covering April 5, 1989.
Debbie Gibson
Bobby Brown
Tone-Loc
Traveling Wilburys
Roy Orbison
1989Kader Amadou, Nigerien footballer[†]
Kader Amadou Dodo is a Nigerien footballer who plays as a right-back or centre-back for AS SONIDEP.
1989Yémi Apithy, Beninese fencer[†]
Yémi Geoffrey Apithy is a French-Beninese sabre fencer representing Benin in international competitions, silver medalist at the 2014 and 2015 African Championships. He bore the flag for Benin at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
1989Liemarvin Bonevacia, Dutch sprinter[†]
Liemarvin Bonevacia is a Dutch sprinter specialising in the 400 metres. He won bronze medals in the event at the 2016 and 2024 European Athletics Championships, and the 2017 and 2021 European Indoor Championships. Bonevacia also earned five major medals for the 4 × 400 m relays, either men's or mixed, including silver medal in the men's relay at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
1989Freddie Fox, English actor[†]
Frederick Samson Robert Morice Fox is an English film and stage actor. His prominent screen performances include roles as singer Marilyn in the BBC's Boy George biopic Worried About the Boy (2010), Freddie Baxter in series Cucumber (2015) and Banana (2015), Jeremy Bamber in White House Farm (2020) and Spider Webb in Slow Horses (2022-2023).
1989Emre Güral, Turkish footballer[†]
Emre Güral is a professional footballer who plays as a forward. Born in Germany, he represented Turkey at 'A2' international level.
1989Justin Holiday, American basketball player[†]
Justin Alaric Holiday is an American professional basketball player who last played for Virtus Bologna of the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) and the EuroLeague. He played college basketball for the Washington Huskies. He went undrafted in the 2011 NBA draft, but would sign with the Philadelphia 76ers in 2013. He won an NBA championship with the Golden State Warriors in 2015. His brothers Jrue and Aaron are also NBA players.
1989Rachel Homan, Canadian curler[†]
Rachel Catherine Homan is a Canadian international curler and the reigning women's world champion. Homan is a former Canadian junior champion, a five-time Canadian national champion, and three-time World Champion, all as a skip. She was also the skip of the Canadian women's curling team at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
1989Lily James, English actress[†]
Lily Chloe Ninette Thomson, known professionally as Lily James, is an English actress. She studied acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and began her career in the British television series Just William (2010). Following a supporting role in the period drama series Downton Abbey (2012–2015), her breakthrough was the title role in the fantasy film Cinderella (2015).
1989Trevor Marsicano, American speed skater[†]
Trevor Marsicano is an American speed skater and silver medalist in the Winter Olympics.
1989Jonathan Rossini, Swiss footballer[†]
Jonathan "Johnny" Rossini is a Swiss former professional footballer who played as a centre back. He is also a former Switzerland international.
1989Kiki Sukezane, Japanese actress[†]
Kiki Sukezane is a Japanese actress from Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, working mostly in American productions.
1989Sosuke Takatani, Japanese wrestler[†]
Sosuke Takatani is an amateur Japanese freestyle wrestler, who competes in the middleweight category.
1989Frank Foss, American pole vaulter (born 1895)[†]
Frank Kent Foss was an American pole vaulter. He won a gold medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics, while breaking his own unofficial world record.
1989Karel Zeman, Czech director, artist, production designer and animator (born 1910)[†]
Karel Zeman was a Czech film director, artist, production designer and animator. He is best known for directing fantasy films combining live-action footage with animation, including Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955) and Invention for Destruction (1958). Because of his creative use of special effects and animation in his films, he has often been called the "Czech Méliès".
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]