About the day » Thursday December 24, 1987Calender converter

• David Schielke († 2008)
• Richard Edward "Ricky" Bourland, Ridgecrest, Kern, California, Verenigde Staten († 2016)

• Catharina Kemps (74), Tilburg
• Aaltje Van Dompseler (80), Putten, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Louisa De Laet (77), Berchem
• Albertje de Boer (70)
• aagje appel (79), oudorp
• Anna Maria van Hees (71), Veghel, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Anne Bruinewoud (64)
• Ceel Bos (72)
• Albertus Delfos (79), Leiden
• Albertus Delfos (79), Leiden

• 1984 » Isaac De Gois, Australian rugby league player
• 1985 » Alexey Dmitriev, German ice hockey player
• 1985 » David Ragan, American race car driver
• 1986 » Kyrylo Fesenko, Ukrainian basketball player
• 1986 » Tim Elliott, American mixed martial artist
• 1987 » Jane Summersett, American ice dancer
• 1988 » Emre Özkan, Turkish footballer
• 1988 » Simon Zenke, Nigerian footballer
• 1988 » Stefanos Athanasiadis, Greek footballer
• 1990 » Brigetta Barrett, American high jumper

• 1982 » Louis Aragon, French author and poet (b. 1897)
• 1984 » Peter Lawford, English-American actor (b. 1923)
• 1985 » Camille Tourville, Canadian-American wrestler and manager (b. 1927)
• 1985 » Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, American lawyer (b. 1904)
• 1986 » Gardner Fox, American author (b. 1911)
• 1987 » Joop den Uyl, Dutch journalist, economist, and politician, 45th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1919)
• 1987 » M. G. Ramachandran, Sri Lankan-Indian actor, producer, and politician, 5th Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (b. 1917)
• 1988 » Jainendra Kumar, Indian author (b. 1905)
• 1990 » Thorbjørn Egner, Norwegian playwright and songwriter (b. 1922)
• 1991 » Virginia Sorensen, American author (b. 1912)

1. Michael
2. Jan
3. Thomas
4. Mark
5. Kevin
6. Jeroen
7. Johannes
8. Joshua
9. David
10. Dennis
11. Pieter
12. Peter
13. Robert
14. Sander
15. Tim
16. Bart

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

• 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.
• The Netherlands had about 14.6 million citizens.
• March 7 » Lieyu massacre: Taiwanese military massacre of 19 unarmed Vietnamese refugees at Donggang, Lieyu, Kinmen.
• June 19 » Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.
• August 7 » Cold War: Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing the Bering Strait from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union.
• September 13 » Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.
• October 11 » Start of Operation Pawan by Indian forces in Sri Lanka. Thousands of civilians, insurgents, soldiers die.
• November 8 » Remembrance Day bombing: A Provisional IRA bomb explodes in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces. Twelve people are killed and sixty-three wounded.

The temperature on December 24, 1987 was between -0.6 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 2.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.