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• Johannes Gerardus Cooijmans, Den Dungen († 2003)

• Bertha Johanna de Vries (77), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Anna Smit (98), Stadskanaal, Groningen, Nederland
• Albert Harvey Sheaves (79), Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, Dartmouth, Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Antje Oevermans (77)
• Anita Louise Kelson Shelton Flores Florise Oneda (92), Pensacola, Escambia, Florida, Verenigde Staten
• Alice Marie Burgoyne (Johnson) (81), Berrien County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Annigje den Boer (101)
• Antoinetta Margaretha Meijers (41), Sittard, Limburg, Nederland
• Albarta Jantina Van Ommen (91)
• Andreas Bras (77), Bergen op Zoom,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1986 » Hugo Lloris, French footballer
• 1986 » Kit Harington, English actor
• 1986 » Selen Soyder, Turkish actress and beauty queen
• 1989 » Yohan Blake, Jamaican sprinter
• 1990 » Aaron Ramsey, Welsh footballer
• 1990 » Andy Biersack, American singer-songwriter
• 1990 » Denis Cheryshev, Russian footballer
• 1990 » Jon Bellion, American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer
• 1991 » Eden Sher, American actress
• 1992 » Cecilia Costa Melgar, Chilean tennis player

• 1981 » Amber Reeves, New Zealand-English author and scholar (b. 1887)
• 1981 » Suat Hayri Ürgüplü, Turkish politician, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1903)
• 1986 » Elsa Lanchester, English-American actress (b. 1902)
• 1987 » Dorothy Bliss, American invertebrate zoologist, curator at the American Museum of Natural History (b. 1916)
• 1988 » Glenn McCarthy, American businessman, founded the Shamrock Hotel (b. 1907)
• 1988 » Pablo Sorozábal, German-Spanish composer and conductor (b. 1897)
• 1989 » Doug Harvey, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1924)
• 1990 » Gene Callahan, American art director and production designer (b. 1923)
• 1994 » Sylva Koscina, Italian actress (b. 1933)
• 1996 » JonBenét Ramsey, American child beauty queen and prominent unsolved murder victim (b. 1990)

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.
• May 30 » Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 10-metre high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
• June 5 » The Tank Man halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
• August 25 » Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the second to last planet in the Solar System at the time.
• September 11 » Hungary announces that the East German refugees who had been housed in temporary camps were free to leave for West Germany.
• November 22 » In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President René Moawad, killing him.
• December 29 » Czech writer, philosopher and dissident Václav Havel is elected the first post-communist President of Czechoslovakia.

The temperature on December 26, 1989 was between -0.1 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.