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• Elisa Steelant († 1987)

• Anton van Leeuwen (85), Paramaribo Suriname
• Caroline* Van Roy (81), Knokke
• Arie Goudriaan (68), Krimpen aan de Lek, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Celia Maria van de Laar (83), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alphonsus Simons (81), Steenbergen,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alida Johanna van Dieren (79), Lexmond (Zederik), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alfons Stroobants (84), Bonheiden
• Anna Cornelia Herrings (83), Bergen op Zoom
• Catharina van Drielen (92), Berkel en Rodenrijs, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bessie Violet Burket (97), Martinsburg, Blair County, Pennsylvania

• 1985 » Oleksiy Kasyanov, Ukrainian decathlete
• 1986 » Cassie Ventura, American singer, dancer, actress and model
• 1986 » Colin Kazim-Richards, Turkish footballer
• 1986 » Vladislav Gussev, Estonian footballer
• 1987 » Juan Joseph, American football player and coach († 2014)
• 1988 » Danielle Savre, American actress
• 1988 » Elvis Andrus, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1988 » Evan Ross, American actor
• 1988 » Lars Stindl, German football player
• 1988 » Wayne Simmonds, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1981 » Lee Hays, American singer-songwriter (b. 1914)
• 1981 » Roger Nash Baldwin, American trade union leader, co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union (b. 1884)
• 1986 » Ted Knight, American actor (b. 1923)
• 1987 » Georg Wittig, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1987 » John Goddard, Barbadian-English cricketer and manager (b. 1919)
• 1988 » Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer-songwriter (b. 1957)
• 1989 » Irving Stone, American author (b. 1903)
• 1990 » Tang Chang, Thai artist (b. 1934)
• 1991 » Mildred Albert, American fashion commentator, TV and radio personality, and fashion show producer (b. 1905)
• 1992 » Bob de Moor, Belgian author and illustrator (b. 1925)

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.
• May 1 » Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish-born Carmelite nun who was gassed in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.
• July 4 » In France, former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie (a.k.a. the "Butcher of Lyon") is convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment.
• July 24 » US supertanker SSBridgeton collides with mines laid by IRGC causing a 43-square-meter dent in the body of the oil tanker.
• August 7 » Cold War: Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing the Bering Strait from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union.
• November 8 » Remembrance Day bombing: A Provisional IRA bomb explodes in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces. Twelve people are killed and sixty-three wounded.
• December 20 » In the worst peacetime sea disaster, the passenger ferry Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker 'MT Vector in the Tablas Strait of the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people (1,749 official).

The temperature on August 26, 1987 was between 13.9 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 4.4 mm of rain during 6.1 hours. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (14%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.