About the day » Thursday February 5, 1987Calender converter

• Ivo van Waardenburg, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Mary Beth Visser, Amerillo, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 2007)
• Stefanie Van Den Spiegel, Aalst (Oost-Vlaanderen, België) († 2006)

• Alice, Laura Lootens (73), Tielt
• Cornelia Peternella Stam (93), Den Haag
• Carolus Franciscus De Bruijn (87), Amersfoort, Nederland
• Carolus Franciscus de Bruijn (87), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Angelina Tielens (86)
• Bernardus Christianus Josephus Ackerman (81), Wageningen
• Cornelis Johannes Pauptit (86), Amstelveen, NH, Nederland
• Amos Clarkson Eaton [K] (77), Tulsa, Tulsa County, Ok
• Cornelis Leeflang (86), Laren
• Cornelia Margaretha Meerveld (91)

• 1986 » Billy Sharp, English footballer
• 1986 » Kevin Gates, American rapper, singer, and entrepreneur
• 1986 » Marcos Díaz, Argentinian footballer
• 1986 » Sekope Kepu, Australian rugby player
• 1986 » Vedran Ćorluka, Croatian footballer, centre back
• 1987 » Alex Kuznetsov, Ukrainian-American tennis player
• 1987 » Curtis Jerrells, American basketball player
• 1987 » Darren Criss, American actor, singer, and entrepreneur
• 1987 » Donald Sanford, American-Israeli sprinter
• 1987 » Linus Omark, Swedish ice hockey player

• 1981 » Ella T. Grasso, American politician, 83rd Governor of Connecticut (b. 1919)
• 1982 » Neil Aggett, Kenyan-South African physician and union leader (b. 1953)
• 1983 » Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, American chemist and academic (b. 1925)
• 1987 » William Collier, Jr., American actor and producer (b. 1902)
• 1989 » Joe Raposo, American pianist and composer (b. 1937)
• 1991 » Dean Jagger, American actor (b. 1903)
• 1992 » Miguel Rolando Covian, Argentinian-Brazilian physiologist and academic (b. 1913)
• 1993 » Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1909)
• 1993 » Seán Flanagan, Irish footballer and politician, 7th Irish Minister for Health (b. 1922)
• 1993 » William Pène du Bois, American author and illustrator (b. 1916)

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.
• January 22 » Philippine security forces open fire on a crowd of 10,000–15,000 demonstrators at Malacañang Palace, Manila, killing 13.
• May 28 » A West German pilot, Mathias Rust, who was 18 years old, evades Soviet Union air defences and lands a private plane in the Red Square in Moscow, Russia.
• June 11 » Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Bernie Grant are elected as the first black MPs in Great Britain.
• August 31 » Thai Airways Flight 365 crashes into the ocean near Ko Phuket, Thailand, killing all 83 aboard.
• September 16 » The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion.
• December 7 » Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771, a British Aerospace 146-200A, crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and steers the plane into the ground.

The temperature on February 5, 1987 was between 2.1 °C and 5.9 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.