About the day » Saturday December 20, 1986Calender converter

• Henk Jan Nagelhout, Zwolle, Nederland († 1986)
• Gerritje Janne de Vaal, Barneveld, Gelderland, Nederland
• Bennie Albertus Petrus Mechelina Muurmans († 2014)

• Alida Pot (84)
• Cornelia Theodora Boom (68), Oudeschild (Texel, NH)
• Albertje de Vries (70), Usquert, Groningen, Nederland
• Adrienne Catherine Marie Madeleine Laure Ghislaine Victoire CHRISTYN de RIBAUCOURT (80), Uccle, 1180, Région Bruxelles-Capitale, Belgique
• Albertus Johannes Liebeton (61), Doorn
• Cornelis Cabooter (84), Vrasene (B), België
• Antonetta Sophia Vriens (78), Reuver
• Berta Marie Elze (80), Landsberg (Saalekrs., Sachsen-Anhalt/Sassen-Anholt)
• Adrianus Johannes Nefkens (82), Venray, Limburg, Nederland
• Bernard Willems POR (95)

• 1981 » Darya Pchelnik, Belarusian hammer thrower
• 1981 » Royal Ivey, American basketball player
• 1982 » David Cook, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1982 » David Wright, American baseball player
• 1982 » Kasper Klausen, Danish footballer
• 1982 » Mohammad Asif, Pakistani cricketer
• 1983 » Darren Sammy, Saint Lucian cricketer
• 1983 » Jonah Hill, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1984 » Nikolaos Karabelas, Greek footballer
• 1990 » JoJo, American singer and actress

• 1981 » Dimitris Rontiris, Greek actor and director (b. 1899)
• 1982 » Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-American pianist and composer (b. 1887)
• 1984 » Dmitry Ustinov, Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union (1976-84) (b. 1908)
• 1984 » Stanley Milgram, American psychologist and academic (b. 1933)
• 1986 » Joe DeSa, American baseball player (b. 1959)
• 1991 » Albert Van Vlierberghe, Belgian cyclist (b. 1942)
• 1991 » Sam Rabin, English wrestler, singer, and sculptor (b. 1903)
• 1991 » Simone Beck, French chef and author (b. 1904)
• 1993 » Nazife Güran, Turkish composer and educator (b. 1921)
• 1993 » W. Edwards Deming, American statistician, author, and academic (b. 1900)

• 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.
• January 12 » Space Shuttle program: Congressman Bill Nelson lifts off from Kennedy Space Center aboard Columbia on mission STS-61-C as a payload specialist.
• March 15 » Collapse of Hotel New World: Thirty-three people die when the Hotel New World in Singapore collapses.
• April 25 » Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.
• May 7 » Canadian Patrick Morrow becomes the first person to climb each of the Seven Summits.
• May 26 » The European Community adopts the European flag.
• November 5 » USSRentz, USSReeves and USSOldendorf visit Qingdao (Tsing Tao) China – the first US Naval visit to China since 1949.

The temperature on December 20, 1986 was between 1.8 °C and 5.6 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 7.8 mm of rain during 8.4 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (3%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.