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• Johannis Willem Romp, Vlissingen
• Bart"Bart" Schaap, Barneveld († 1987)
• Helene Vanduynslager, Woippy (FR57) († 1989)
• Stefan Gresnigt
• Maickel Beekelaar, Brunssum, Limburg, Nederland
• Bjorn Leek, Hilversum

• Bart"Bart" Schaap (0), Barneveld
• Antoon Christiaan Bonte (67), Deventer,Gemeente Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Berendina Maria de Kleine (77), Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Burford York (78)
• Cornelia Elisabeth van de Velde (86), Rijnsburg, Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes van Loon (85), Amsterdam
• Christina Collewijn (79), Amsterdam
• Cornelia Maria Biemans (77), Breda
• Christine Henrietta De Young (73)
• Arend GRIMMIUS (91), Bedum Groningen Netherlands

• 1985 » Artem Milevskiy, Ukrainian footballer
• 1985 » Borja Valero, Spanish footballer
• 1985 » Issa Rae, American actress, writer, director, producer and web series creator
• 1986 » Kehoma Brenner, German rugby player
• 1986 » Miguel Ángel Nieto, Spanish footballer
• 1987 » Naya Rivera, American actress and singer († 2020)
• 1987 » Salvatore Sirigu, Italian footballer
• 1988 » Claude Giroux, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 » Axel Witsel, Belgian footballer
• 1989 » Thiemo-Jérôme Kialka, German footballer

• 1977 » Henri-Georges Clouzot, French director and screenwriter (b. 1907)
• 1983 » Nikolai Podgorny, Ukrainian engineer and politician (b. 1903)
• 1988 » Connie Mulder, South African politician (b. 1925)
• 1988 » Piero Taruffi, Italian racing driver and motorcycle racer (b. 1906)
• 1990 » Laurence J. Peter, Canadian-American author and educator (b. 1919)
• 1991 » Robert Jackson, Australian public servant and diplomat (b. 1911)
• 1992 » Kumar Gandharva, a Hindustani classical singer (b. 1924)
• 1994 » Gustav Naan, Estonian physicist and philosopher (b. 1919)
• 1996 » Joachim Nitsche, German mathematician and academic (b. 1926)
• 1997 » Jean-Edern Hallier, French author (b. 1936)

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. Anna
7. Kim
8. Esther
9. Sanne
10. Nicole
11. Johanna
12. Amanda
13. Anne
14. Michelle
15. Chantal
16. Marieke

• 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 22 » Philippine security forces open fire on a crowd of 10,000–15,000 demonstrators at Malacañang Palace, Manila, killing 13.
• March 19 » Televangelist Jim Bakker resigns as head of the PTL Club due to a brewing sex scandal; he hands over control to Jerry Falwell.
• 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 1 » Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish-born Carmelite nun who was gassed in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.
• July 1 » The American radio station WFAN in New York City is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station.
• 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 January 12, 1987 was between -14.4 °C and -7.6 °C and averaged -10.7 °C. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (70%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.