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• Leah van der Mije, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, Frankrijk

• Cornelis Hendrikus MEERTS (54), Roermond, Limburg, Netherlands
• Adrianus Vermeer (60), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Hester Husen (83), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland, Nederland
• Antonius Marinus ten HOLDER (66), Gendringen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anthonius Willemsen (73), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arthur Christopher John SOAMES (66), Odiham, Hampshire
• Christina de Goederen (61), 's-Gravenhage
• Anthonius Willemsen (73), Hilversum
• Christopher John SOAMES (66), England U.K
• Aukje Hemrica (81), Ballerat (Australië)

• 1985 » Max Minghella, English actor
• 1986 » Gordon Beckham, American baseball player
• 1986 » Kyla Pratt, American actress and singer
• 1987 » Burry Stander, South African cyclist († 2013)
• 1987 » Kyle Lafferty, Irish footballer
• 1987 » Louis Ngwat-Mahop, Cameroonian footballer
• 1987 » Merve Boluğur, Turkish actress
• 1987 » Travis Wall, American dancer and choreographer
• 1988 » Teddy Geiger, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
• 1989 » Lancelot Bravado, American wrestler

• 1980 » Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist and philosopher (b. 1896)
• 1984 » Louis Réard, French engineer and fashion designer, created the bikini (b. 1897)
• 1984 » Richard Brautigan, American novelist, poet, and short story writer (b. 1935)
• 1987 » Christopher Soames, English soldier and politician, Governor of Southern Rhodesia (b. 1920)
• 1991 » Olga Spessivtseva, Russian-American ballerina (b. 1895)
• 1992 » Millicent Fenwick, American journalist and politician (b. 1910)
• 1993 » František Jílek, Czech conductor (b. 1913)
• 1993 » Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australian poet and activist (b. 1920)
• 1996 » Gene Nelson, American actor, dancer, and director (b. 1920)
• 1996 » McGeorge Bundy, American intelligence officer and diplomat, 6th United States National Security Advisor (b. 1919)

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.
• June 19 » Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.
• 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).
• July 31 » A tornado occurs in Edmonton, Canada.
• 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 7 » In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
• 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 September 16, 1987 was between 10.7 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.