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See also: 1988 in France, other events of 1989, 1990 in France.

Events from the year 1989 in France.

Events

• 12 March - Municipal Elections held.
• 19 March - Municipal Elections held.
• 15 June - European Parliament Election held.
• 14 July - France celebrates the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution.
• 14 July - 15th G7 summit at the Grande Arche in Paris begins.
• 16 July - 15th G7 summit ends.
• 19 September - UTA Flight 772 broke up over the Sahara Desert following an explosion. 156 passengers and 14 crew were killed.

Arts and literature

Sport

• 1 July - Tour de France begins.
• 9 July - French Grand Prix won by Alain Prost.
• 23 July - Tour de France ends, won by Greg LeMond of the United States.

Births

• 8 January - Dominique Malonga, soccer player.
• 10 February - Kévin Aubeneau, soccer player.
• 26 February - Gabriel Obertan, soccer player.
• 6 April - Djamel Bakar, soccer player.
• 3 July - Jean-Armel Kana-Biyik, soccer player.
• 16 August - Moussa Sissoko, soccer player.
• 8 October - Armand Traoré, soccer player.
• 10 November - Parfait Mandanda, soccer player.
• 17 December - André Ayew, soccer player.

Deaths

January to March

• 5 February - André Cheuva, soccer player (b.1908).
• 6 February - André Cayatte, filmmaker (b.1909).
• 7 February - Gilbert Simondon, philosopher (b.1924).
• 17 February - Guy Laroche, fashion designer (b.1921).
• 21 February - Alex Thépot, international soccer player (b.1906).
• 8 March - Robert Lacoste, politician (b.1898).
• 15 March - Valérie Quennessen, actress (b.1957).
• 29 March - Bernard Blier, actor (b.1916).
• 29 March - Fernand Gambiez, General and military historian (b.1903).

April to June

• 6 April - Henri Cadiou, painter and lithographer (b.1906).
• 15 April - Charles Vanel, film director and actor (b.1892).
• 30 April - Pierre Lewden, athlete (b.1901).
• 25 May - Jean Despeaux, boxer, Olympic gold-medallist (b.1915).
• 22 June - Henri Sauguet, composer (b.1901).

July to September

• 2 July - Jean Painlevé, film director (b.1902).
• 5 July - Jean Leguay, civil servant, accomplice of the Deportation of Jews from France (b.1909).
• 6 July - Jean Bouise, actor (b.1931).
• 17 July - Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil, lover and later wife of Samuel Beckett (b.1900).
• 20 July - Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, French Resistance leader (b.1909).
• 4 September - Georges Simenon, writer (b.1903).
• 8 September - Vincent Badie, lawyer and politician (b.1902).

October to December

• 14 November - Rémi Laurent, actor (b.1957).
• 23 November - Armand Salacrou, dramatist (b.1899).
• 31 December - Lilly Daché, milliner and fashion designer (b.1898).

Full date unknown

• Bernard-Marie Koltès, playwright and director (b.1948).
• Jean-Etienne Marie, composer (b.1917).
• André Muffang, chess master (b.1897).
• Jean-Louis Verdier, mathematician (b.1935).

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