About the day » Saturday August 8, 1987Calender converter

• Van De Riet, castro Brasil
• Elise van Rooij, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Christopher Shane Kittrell [?K? FgTX] († 1987)
• Luuk van Sambeeck, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Warmerhoven (76)
• * Jacobus Louis Raucamp (72), Bussum
• Bernard William Moris (64), Prairie du Chien, Crawford County, Wisconsin, United States of America
• Aaltje Lucas * (73)
• Cornelis Goris (75), Ossendrecht N.B
• Voeten (40), Roosendaal
• Ada BULLOCK (82), Cottage Grove, Oregon (U.S.)
• Christopher Shane Kittrell [?K? FgTX] (0)
• Dorothy Gertrude Carver (83), Waveney, Suffolk/
• Dorothy M. Lee (60), Meriden, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

• 1985 » Toby Flood, English rugby player
• 1986 » Chris Pressley, American football player
• 1986 » Kateryna Bondarenko, Ukrainian tennis player
• 1986 » Pierre Garçon, American football player
• 1987 » Pierre Boulanger, French actor
• 1987 » Tatjana Malek, German tennis player
• 1988 » Danilo Gallinari, Italian basketball player
• 1988 » Laura Slade Wiggins, American actress and singer
• 1988 » Princess Beatrice of York
• 1988 » Rinku Singh, Indian baseball player

• 1981 » Thomas McElwee, Irish republican and PIRA volunteer (b. 1957)
• 1982 » Eric Brandon, English racing driver and businessman (b. 1920)
• 1984 » Ellen Raskin, American author and illustrator (b. 1928)
• 1984 » Richard Deacon, American actor (b. 1921)
• 1985 » Louise Brooks, American actress (b. 1906)
• 1987 » Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician and physicist (b. 1903)
• 1988 » Alan Napier, English actor (b. 1903)
• 1988 » Félix Leclerc, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1914)
• 1991 » James Irwin, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1930)
• 1992 » Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Iranian religious leader and scholar (b. 1899)

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.
• 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 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.
• June 28 » For the first time in military history, a civilian population is targeted for chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bombed the Iranian town of Sardasht.
• September 3 » In a coup d'état in Burundi, President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza is deposed by Major Pierre Buyoya.
• October 11 » Start of Operation Pawan by Indian forces in Sri Lanka. Thousands of civilians, insurgents, soldiers die.
• 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 August 8, 1987 was between 11.9 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 4.8 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.