About the day » Saturday February 17, 1990Calender converter

• Levi Garrett Ostendorf († 1991)
• Peter Bosch, Dalen, Dalen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Shana Vastmans, Bree, Provincie Limburg, België († 1990)

• Alida Christina den Drijver (95)
• Arie Kooijmans (77), Schiedam
• Alida den Drijver (95)
• Arthur Julien Vanhoutteghem (91), Kortrijk (W-VL) België
• Dionisius Van kerckhoven (84), Bornem
• Cornelia Smitshoek (79), 's-Gravendeel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Maria Theodora Nuijten (99), Haarlem
• Charlotte Annie Stoddart (85), Wargrave Reading, Berkshire, England
• Adriana Maria Antonia Zuidgeest (79), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albert Paul Alphonse Marie Joseph Vincke (78), Knokke

• 1984 » AB de Villiers, South African cricketer
• 1985 » Anders Jacobsen, Norwegian ski jumper
• 1988 » Vasyl Lomachenko, Ukrainian boxer
• 1989 » Chord Overstreet, American actor and singer
• 1989 » Rebecca Adlington, English swimmer
• 1990 » Marianne St-Gelais, Canadian speed skater
• 1991 » Bonnie Wright, English actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1991 » Ed Sheeran, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1993 » Marc Márquez, Spanish motorcycle racer
• 1993 » Nicola Leali, Italian footballer

• 1982 » Lee Strasberg, American actor and director (b. 1901)
• 1982 » Nestor Chylak, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1922)
• 1982 » Thelonious Monk, American pianist and composer (b. 1917)
• 1986 » Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian-American philosopher and author (b. 1895)
• 1988 » John M. Allegro, English archaeologist and scholar (b. 1923)
• 1988 » Karpoori Thakur, Indian educator and politician, 11th Chief Minister of Bihar (b. 1924)
• 1989 » Lefty Gomez, American baseball player (b. 1908)
• 1990 » Jean-Marc Boivin, French mountaineer, skier, and pilot (b. 1951)
• 1994 » Randy Shilts, American journalist and author (b. 1951)
• 1998 » Ernst Jünger, German soldier, philosopher, and author (b. 1895)

1. Thomas
2. Jan
3. Michael
4. Johannes
5. Mark
6. Kevin
7. Tim
8. Jeroen
9. Dennis
10. Nick
11. Rick
12. Alexander
13. Robin
14. Bas
15. Robert
16. Sander

1. Laura
2. Anna
3. Anne
4. Maria
5. Linda
6. Jessica
7. Charlotte
8. Samantha
9. Sanne
10. Sarah
11. Chantal
12. Stephanie
13. Johanna
14. Kim
15. Michelle
16. Lisa

• 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 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 14.9 million citizens.
• February 13 » German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
• April 9 » An IRA bombing in County Down, Northern Ireland, kills three members of the UDR.
• April 11 » Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, seize what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.
• June 12 » Russia Day: The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.
• November 7 » Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland.
• November 16 » Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.

The temperature on February 17, 1990 was between -1.9 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.