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• Erin Elisabeth Voss, St. Mary's, Ontario, Canada († 2015)

• Anna Hulda Henkel (74), Stede Broec, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Petronella Wartington (93)
• Alida Cornelia Dol (93)
• Alice Mary Montague (88)
• Beatrice Mary Buchanan (81)
• Anna Maria Magtilda Breetveld (85), Rotterdam
• Antonie de Lange (64), Middelburg
• Casper Jacobs (63)
• Adrianus Hendrikus van de Pavoordt (87), Painesville Township (USA)
• Catharina Maria Muller (64), Lelystad

• 1981 » Mikael Antonsson, Swedish footballer
• 1984 » Andrew Bailey, American baseball player
• 1984 » Milorad Čavić, Serbian swimmer
• 1984 » Nate Robinson, American basketball player
• 1985 » Jordy Nelson, American football player
• 1986 » Robert Gesink, Dutch cyclist
• 1989 » Marco Reus, German footballer
• 1990 » Erik Karlsson, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1992 » Laura Ikauniece, Latvian heptathlete
• 1992 » Michaël Bournival, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1981 » Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, English economist and journalist (b. 1914)
• 1982 » Carlo Mauri, Italian mountaineer and explorer (b. 1930)
• 1983 » Jack Dempsey, American boxer and lieutenant (b. 1895)
• 1985 » Gaston Rébuffat, French mountaineer and author (b. 1921)
• 1986 » James Rainwater, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
• 1986 » Jane Frank, American painter and sculptor (b. 1918)
• 1987 » John Abraham, Indian director and screenwriter (b. 1937)
• 1989 » C. L. R. James, Trinidadian journalist and historian (b. 1901)
• 1989 » Owen Lattimore, American author and academic (b. 1900)
• 1994 » Uzay Heparı, Turkish actor, producer, and composer (b. 1969)

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

1. Maria
2. Jessica
3. Laura
4. Sarah
5. Linda
6. Anna
7. Kim
8. Esther
9. Sanne
10. Nicole
11. Johanna
12. Amanda
13. Anne
14. Michelle
15. Chantal
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 1 » The Isleta Pueblo tribe elect Verna Williamson to be their first female governor.
• May 17 » Iran–Iraq War: An Iraqi Dassault Mirage F1 fighter jet fires two missiles into the U.S. Navy warship USSStark, killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.
• October 1 » The 5.9 M_w  Whittier Narrows earthquake shakes the San Gabriel Valley with a Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing eight and injuring 200.
• October 7 » Sikh nationalists declare the independence of Khalistan from India; it is not internationally recognized.
• November 25 » Typhoon Nina pummels the Philippines with category 5 winds of 165mph and a surge that destroys entire villages. At least 1,036 deaths are attributed to the storm.
• December 8 » An Israeli army tank transporter kills four Palestinian refugees and injures seven others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the Israel–Gaza Strip border, which has been cited as one of the events which sparked the First Intifada.

The temperature on May 31, 1987 was between 8.7 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (4%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.