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• Ernst Jan Kleine, Hasselt, Overijssel, Nederland

• Adrianus Timmer (57)
• Beertje Kamphorst (37), Elspeet
• Anna Maria Amesz (93), Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
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• Adrianus Timmer (57)
• Debbie L. McClees (39), Ann Arbor
• Aartje van Drie (84), Putten
• ANDRE - REMI VERVAEKE (73), Tournai, 7500, Hainaut, Belgique
• Dorothy May WHISH-WILSON (61), Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
• Arend Munsterman (54)

• 1988 » Alfred Enoch, English actor
• 1988 » Fuse ODG, English recording artist
• 1988 » Stephen McGinn, Scottish footballer
• 1989 » Cassie Steele, Canadian singer-songwriter and actress
• 1989 » Etta Bond, English singer-songwriter
• 1989 » Matteo Darmian, Italian footballer
• 1990 » Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu, Ghanaian footballer
• 1990 » Fausto Rossi, Italian footballer
• 1990 » Gastón Ramírez, Uruguayan footballer
• 1990 » Jamille Matt, Jamaican footballer

• 1985 » Philip Larkin, English poet, author, and librarian (b. 1922)
• 1986 » Desi Arnaz, Cuban-American actor, singer, businessman, and television producer (b. 1917)
• 1986 » John Curtis Gowan, American psychologist and academic (b. 1912)
• 1987 » Luis Federico Leloir, French-Argentinian physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 1987 » Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Belarusian physicist, astronomer, and cosmologist (b. 1914)
• 1988 » Karl-Heinz Bürger, German colonel (b. 1904)
• 1988 » Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1922)
• 1990 » Aaron Copland, American composer and conductor (b. 1900)
• 1990 » Robert Cummings, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1908)
• 1993 » Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord (b. 1949)

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 26 » People's Daily publishes the April 26 Editorial which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests.
• June 28 » On the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, Slobodan Milošević delivers the Gazimestan speech at the site of the historic battle.
• July 20 » Burma's ruling junta puts opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest.
• September 11 » Hungary announces that the East German refugees who had been housed in temporary camps were free to leave for West Germany.
• September 13 » Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.
• November 7 » David Dinkins becomes the first African American to be elected Mayor of New York City.

The temperature on December 2, 1989 was between -6.1 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged -0.6 °C. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (92%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.