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• M.Adela Roosen, Jeuk
• Stefan Benjamin (Stefan) Hobers, Emmen
• Miranda Pluister († 1989)
• Amanda Bouwhuis († 1989)
• Jessica Nicole Ricketson († 1989)
• Priscilla de Kever

• Anna Margaretha Constantia (Margriet) Wolbers (51), Nijnsel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Helena Eijkenboom (69), Maastricht
• Charley Mcclean (79), multnomah county, oregon
• Anneke Rinske Hendriks Metzlar (81)
• Cornelis Bol (68), Valkenburg, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Simons Dijkstra (96)
• Cornelis van den Dobbelsteen (50), Geldrop
• Cornelis Philips (68), Rotterdam
• Anna Johanna Jennika Booij (90), Arnhem
• Cornelis Lambertus Broeders (86), Made en Drimmelen, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands

• 1973 » Vasso Karantasiou, Greek beach volleyball player
• 1976 » Richard Zedník, Slovak ice hockey player
• 1981 » Asante Samuel, American football player
• 1982 » Eddie Redmayne, English actor and model
• 1984 » Kate McKinnon, American actress and comedian
• 1986 » Paul McShane, Irish footballer
• 1986 » Petter Northug, Norwegian skier
• 1989 » Andy Carroll, English footballer
• 1991 » Will Barton, American basketball player
• 1994 » Lim Jae-beom, South Korean singer and actor (Got7)

• 1978 » Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (b. 1899)
• 1981 » A. J. Cronin, Scottish physician and author (b. 1896)
• 1984 » Ernest Laszlo, Hungarian-American cinematographer (b. 1898)
• 1990 » Ian Charleson, Scottish-English actor (b. 1949)
• 1990 » Pavel Cherenkov, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 1993 » Dizzy Gillespie, American singer-songwriter and trumpet player (b. 1917)
• 1993 » Rudolf Nureyev, Russian-French dancer and choreographer (b. 1938)
• 1995 » Joe Slovo, Lithuanian-South African lawyer and politician (b. 1926)
• 1999 » Michel Petrucciani, French-American pianist (b. 1962)
• 2000 » Don Martin, American cartoonist (b. 1931)

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

1. Kim
2. Maria
3. Laura
4. Sanne
5. Linda
6. Jessica
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 7 » Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors.
• April 15 » Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, home of Sheffield Wednesday, in the FA Cup Semi-final, resulting in the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans.
• July 6 » The Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack: Sixteen bus passengers are killed when a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad took control of the bus and drove it over a cliff.
• July 26 » A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
• October 15 » Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL.
• December 29 » The Nikkei 225 for the Tokyo Stock Exchange hits its all-time intra-day high of 38,957.44 and closing high at 38,915.87, serving as the apex of the Japanese asset price bubble.

The temperature on January 6, 1989 was between 4.0 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 6.6 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.