About the day » Sunday August 31, 1986Calender converter

• Denny Schoenmakers, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1986)

• Clarice Ion Ethridge (79), Brookhaven, Lincoln, Mississippi, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia Dirksdr Appel (89), Winkel
• Adrianus Pieter Apon (83)
• elisabeth (beth) minten (70), venlo (st.maartensgasthuis)
• Cornelia Piet (82), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Appel (89), Winkel
• Agatha Maria Ursulla de Winter (89), Schagen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Evert Bedijs (69)
• Adriaantje de Koning (89), Barendrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Fay Wood (90), Kilgore, Gregg County, Texas

• 1984 » Matti Breschel, Danish cyclist
• 1984 » Ryan Kesler, American ice hockey player
• 1984 » Ted Ligety, American skier
• 1985 » Andrew Foster, Australian footballer
• 1985 » Mabel Matiz, Turkish singer
• 1985 » Mohammed bin Salman, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia
• 1985 » Rolando, Portuguese footballer
• 1987 » Ondřej Pavelec, Czech ice hockey player
• 1987 » Petros Kravaritis, Greek footballer
• 1987 » Xavi Annunziata, Spanish footballer

• 1978 » John Wrathall, Rhodesian accountant and politician, 2nd President of Rhodesia (b. 1913)
• 1979 » Sally Rand, American actress and dancer (b. 1904)
• 1979 » Tiger Smith, English cricketer and coach (b. 1886)
• 1984 » Audrey Wagner, American baseball player, obstetrician, and gynecologist (b. 1927)
• 1985 » Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1986 » Elizabeth Coatsworth, American author and poet (b. 1893)
• 1986 » Henry Moore, English sculptor and illustrator (b. 1898)
• 1986 » Urho Kekkonen, Finnish journalist, lawyer, and politician, 8th President of Finland (b. 1900)
• 1990 » Nathaniel Clifton, American basketball player and coach (b. 1922)
• 1991 » Cliff Lumsdon, Canadian swimmer and coach (b. 1931)

1. Mark
2. Michael
3. Jan
4. Kevin
5. Robert
6. Thomas
7. Jeroen
8. Peter
9. David
10. Sander
11. Bart
12. Willem
13. Johannes
14. Maarten
15. Hendrik
16. Patrick

1. Maria
2. Laura
3. Linda
4. Kim
5. Sanne
6. Jessica
7. Johanna
8. Marjolein
9. Jennifer
10. Charlotte
11. Amanda
12. Stephanie
13. Anna
14. Esther
15. Joyce
16. Sarah

• 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• 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.
• The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
• February 19 » Akkaraipattu massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 80 Tamil farm workers in eastern Sri Lanka.
• March 21 » Debi Thomas became the first African American to win the World Figure Skating Championships
• March 24 » The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.
• April 27 » The city of Pripyat and surrounding areas are evacuated due to Chernobyl disaster.
• July 6 » Davis Phinney becomes the first American cyclist to win a road stage of the Tour de France.
• November 26 » Iran–Contra affair: U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces the members of what will become known as the Tower Commission.

The temperature on August 31, 1986 was between 9.3 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (17%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.