About the day » Tuesday April 21, 1987Calender converter

• Robert Pieter van der Holst, Wassenaar

• Berthold August Ernst Adalbert von Bohlen und Halbach (73)
• Charlie Skipper (84), Leland, Brunswick County, North Carolina
• cornelia wolf (73)
• Alida Cornelia Sitton (81), Burgh-Haamstede
• Berthold Ernst August Adalbert van Bohlen-Halbach (73), Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen
• Adrianus Doremans (73), Raamsdonksveer
• Adrianus Ludovicus van Opstal (81), Zevenbergen
• Alfons Frans Bayens (73), Turnhout
• Barbara FURBER (74), San Diego, San Diego, California, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus Petrus Hendricus Huijbregts (Huijbrechts) (73), Breda

• 1986 » Alexander Edler, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1986 » Audra Cohen, American tennis player
• 1986 » Mirko Valdifiori, Italian footballer
• 1986 » Rodney Stuckey, American basketball player
• 1987 » Anastasia Prikhodko, Ukrainian singer
• 1987 » Eric Devendorf, American basketball player
• 1987 » Leroy George, Dutch footballer
• 1987 » Nadif Chowdhury, Bangladeshi cricketer
• 1988 » Jencarlos Canela, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1988 » Ricky Berens, American swimmer

• 1983 » Walter Slezak, Austrian-American actor and singer (b. 1902)
• 1984 » Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian engineer and mountaineer (b. 1943)
• 1984 » Marcel Janco, Romanian-Israeli artist (b. 1895)
• 1985 » Rudi Gernreich, Austrian-American fashion designer, created the monokini (b. 1922)
• 1985 » Tancredo Neves, Brazilian banker and politician, Prime Minister of Brazil (b. 1910)
• 1986 » Marjorie Eaton, American painter and actress (b. 1901)
• 1986 » Salah Jahin, Egyptian poet, playwright, and composer (b. 1930)
• 1987 » Gustav Bergmann, Austrian-American philosopher from the Vienna Circle (b. 1906)
• 1989 » James Kirkwood, Jr., American actor, playwright, and author (b. 1924)
• 1990 » Erté, Russian-French illustrator (b. 1892)

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.
• February 26 » Iran–Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff.
• May 15 » The Soviet Union launches the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform. It fails to reach orbit.
• 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.
• July 24 » US supertanker SSBridgeton collides with mines laid by IRGC causing a 43-square-meter dent in the body of the oil tanker.
• July 29 » British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel).
• August 4 » The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues "fairly".

The temperature on April 21, 1987 was between 2.8 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.