About the day » Saturday January 31, 1987Calender converter

• Melanie Frederiks, Stadskanaal († 1987)

• Carey W. Turner (78), Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, United States
• Anna Margaretha Frijns (89), Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
• Charles H. Waggoner (76), Corpus Christi, Nueces Co., Texas
• Arendina Abrahamina van Eijsden (84), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Christiaan Theodoor Verheyen (69), Meeuwen-Gruitrode, Provincie Limburg, België
• Anna Maria de Roover (85), Pijpelheide, Vlaanderen, België
• Antonius Hubertus Stal (80), Roermond
• Adriana Cornelia van Keulen (74)
• Dirk Hilda Maria Vertommen (18), Kapellen
• Aagje Pool (60), Den Hoorn (Texel, NH)

• 1985 » Adam Federici, Australian footballer
• 1985 » Mario Williams, American football player
• 1986 » George Elokobi, Cameroonian footballer
• 1986 » Megan Ellison, American film producer, founded Annapurna Pictures
• 1986 » Pauline Parmentier, French tennis player
• 1986 » Walter Dix, American sprinter
• 1986 » Yves Ma-Kalambay, Belgian footballer
• 1987 » Marcus Mumford, American-English singer-songwriter
• 1988 » Brett Pitman, English footballer
• 1988 » Taijo Teniste, Estonian footballer

• 1976 » Ernesto Miranda, American criminal (b. 1941)
• 1976 » Evert Taube, Swedish author and composer (b. 1890)
• 1985 » Reginald Baker, English-Australian film producer (b. 1896)
• 1985 » Tatsuzō Ishikawa, Japanese author (b. 1905)
• 1987 » Yves Allégret, French director and screenwriter (b. 1907)
• 1989 » William Stephenson, Canadian captain and spy (b. 1896)
• 1990 » Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, German zoologist and academic (b. 1901)
• 1990 » Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-American biochemist and academic (b. 1935)
• 1995 » George Abbott, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1887)
• 1997 » John Joseph Scanlan, Irish-American bishop (b. 1930)

1. Michael
2. Jan
3. Thomas
4. Mark
5. Kevin
6. Jeroen
7. Johannes
8. Joshua
9. David
10. Dennis
11. Pieter
12. Peter
13. Robert
14. Sander
15. Tim
16. Bart

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

• 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.
• The Netherlands had about 14.6 million citizens.
• March 20 » The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT.
• April 27 » The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim (and his wife, Elisabeth, who had also been a Nazi) from entering the US, charging that he had aided in the deportations and executions of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
• May 1 » Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish-born Carmelite nun who was gassed in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.
• June 11 » Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Bernie Grant are elected as the first black MPs in Great Britain.
• November 7 » In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
• December 9 » Israeli–Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.

The temperature on January 31, 1987 was between -11.1 °C and 1.5 °C and averaged -5.8 °C. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (90%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.