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• Ramona van der Sluis, Dodewaard (Gelderland) Nederland)
• Robert Barry Inglis, Auckland

• Adrianus van der Linden (89), Tilburg
• Alfons Frans BAijENS (73), Turnhout, Antwerpen, België
• Baijens Alfons Frans (73), Turnhout, Antwerpen, België
• Arthur Archie KITTSON (71), Kern, California
• Cornelia Antonia Dijk van (85), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Cornelia Antonia van Dijk (85), Utrecht
• Cornelia van Ommeren (80), Warnsveld
• Aaltje Mondria (88), Utrecht
• Alice Mary Hilton (99), Seiling, Dewey, Oklahoma, Verenigde Staten
• Eeuwout Baart (80), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1984 » Antonio Cromartie, American football player
• 1984 » Cam Janssen, American ice hockey player
• 1984 » Daniel Paille, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1985 » Ryan Hamilton, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 » Sylvain Marveaux, French footballer
• 1986 » Tom Heaton, English footballer
• 1988 » Blake Ayshford, Australian rugby league player
• 1988 » Chris Tillman, American baseball pitcher
• 1988 » Steven Defour, Belgian footballer
• 1989 » Darren Nicholls, Australian rugby league player

• 1980 » Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1980 » Raymond Bailey, American actor and soldier (b. 1904)
• 1982 » Arthur Lowe, English actor (b. 1915)
• 1984 » Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedian and magician (b. 1921)
• 1986 » Jean Genet, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1910)
• 1988 » Kenneth Williams, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 1989 » Hu Yaobang, Chinese soldier and politician, former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b. 1915)
• 1990 » Greta Garbo, Swedish-American actress (b. 1905)
• 1993 » John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geophysicist and geologist (b. 1908)
• 1993 » Leslie Charteris, English author and screenwriter (b. 1907)

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

1. Maria
2. Jessica
3. Laura
4. Sarah
5. Linda
6. Anna
7. Kim
8. Esther
9. Sanne
10. Nicole
11. Johanna
12. Amanda
13. Anne
14. Michelle
15. Chantal
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 19 » Televangelist Jim Bakker resigns as head of the PTL Club due to a brewing sex scandal; he hands over control to Jerry Falwell.
• May 1 » Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish-born Carmelite nun who was gassed in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.
• May 17 » Iran–Iraq War: An Iraqi Dassault Mirage F1 fighter jet fires two missiles into the U.S. Navy warship USSStark, killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.
• May 28 » A West German pilot, Mathias Rust, who was 18 years old, evades Soviet Union air defences and lands a private plane in the Red Square in Moscow, Russia.
• August 19 » Hungerford massacre: In the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with a semi-automatic rifle and then commits suicide.
• November 29 » North Korean agents plant a bomb on Korean Air Flight 858, which kills all 115 passengers and crew.

The temperature on April 15, 1987 was between 4.2 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (35%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.