About the day » Thursday December 7, 1989Calender converter

• Timo van der SMAN († 2006)
• Phylicia HOLTZ, Almere

• * Johannes Cornelis Wilhelmus Bettings (64), Toronto
• Alida Johanna Roeper (69), Den Burg, Texel, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Agnes Antonia Gezina Johannink (69), 'Gravenhage
• Adrianus Johannes Cornelis van Tiggelen (64), Roosendaal,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cecil Dale JENSEN (86), Steilacoom, Pierce, Washington
• Brigida Giulia Radina (90), Tolmezzo, 33028, Italia
• Adriana Cornelia HOFKENS (77), Boechout, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium
• Apollonia Alida Maria Looijestijn (75), Wassenaar
• Arie den Braber (69), Schoonrewoerd, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Dirk BRUSSELLE (42), La Chapelle des Fougeretz (France)

• 1988 » Angelina Gabueva, Russian tennis player
• 1988 » Emily Browning, Australian actress and singer
• 1988 » Nathan Adrian, American swimmer
• 1989 » Alessandro Marchi, Italian footballer
• 1989 » Kyle Hendricks, American baseball player
• 1989 » Nicholas Hoult, English actor
• 1990 » Aleksandr Menkov, Russian long jumper
• 1990 » David Goffin, Belgian tennis player
• 1990 » Urszula Radwańska, Polish tennis player
• 1990 » Yasiel Puig, Cuban baseball player

• 1985 » J. R. Eyerman, American photographer and journalist (b. 1906)
• 1985 » Potter Stewart, American soldier and jurist (b. 1915)
• 1985 » Robert Graves, English poet, novelist, critic (b. 1895)
• 1989 » Hans Hartung, French-German painter (b. 1904)
• 1989 » Haystacks Calhoun, American wrestler and actor (b. 1934)
• 1990 » Jean Paul Lemieux, Canadian painter and educator (b. 1904)
• 1990 » Joan Bennett, American actress (b. 1910)
• 1992 » Richard J. Hughes, American politician, 45th Governor of New Jersey, and Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court (b. 1909)
• 1993 » Abidin Dino, Turkish-French painter and illustrator (b. 1913)
• 1993 » Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Ivoirian physician and politician, 1st President of Ivory Coast (b. 1905)

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

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.
• 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 17 » First flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber.
• September 4 » In Leipzig, East Germany, the first of weekly demonstration for the legalisation of opposition groups and democratic reforms takes place.
• September 19 » A bomb destroys UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger, killing all 170 passengers and crew.
• November 9 » Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall: East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to travel to West Berlin.
• December 29 » Czech writer, philosopher and dissident Václav Havel is elected the first post-communist President of Czechoslovakia.

The temperature on December 7, 1989 was between 0.5 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.