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• Stephanie Constance Lucienne Close, Maastricht († 1988)
• Chantal Poirot, Dordrecht († 2016)
• Vincent Dehut, Ukkel († 1988)

• Catharina Saaf (85)
• Dirk Johanneszn. Ykema (71), Wommels, Hennaarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Peters (69), Geleen (Sittard-Geleen) Limburg, Nederland
• Chester B. Baker (81), Brockton, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Anne Maria van den Heuvel (59), Delft
• Aaltje Agtersmit (86)
• Anna Schütz (80), Laren, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alicia Philomena VERBESTEL (89), Aalst, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Abraham Jacob Guequierre (74), Milwaukee,Milwaukee County,Wis.,United States
• Annegien Lindeman (79), Beverwijk Noord-Holland Nederland

• 1985 » Çağlar Birinci, Turkish footballer
• 1985 » Brandon Jackson, American football player
• 1985 » Buster Davis, American football player
• 1986 » Camilla Belle, American actress
• 1987 » Bojana Bobusic, Australian tennis player
• 1987 » Joe Ingles, Australian basketball player
• 1987 » Joel Reinders, American football player
• 1987 » Phil Kessel, American ice hockey player
• 1987 » Ricky Stenhouse Jr., American race car driver
• 1988 » Brittany Howard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1981 » Harry Golden, American journalist and author (b. 1902)
• 1981 » Hazel Scott, Trinidadian-American activist, actress, and musician (b. 1920)
• 1985 » Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)
• 1987 » Madeleine Carroll, English actress (b. 1906)
• 1987 » Peter Medawar, Brazilian-English biologist and zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
• 1988 » Alec Issigonis, Greek-English car designer, designed the Mini (b. 1906)
• 1988 » Hamengkubuwono IX, Indonesian politician, 2nd Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1912)
• 1991 » Demetrios I of Constantinople (b. 1914)
• 1991 » Hazen Argue, Canadian politician (b. 1921)
• 1994 » Harriet Nelson, American actress and singer (b. 1909)

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.
• May 1 » Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish-born Carmelite nun who was gassed in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.
• 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 8 » New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987.
• July 5 » Sri Lankan Civil War: The LTTE uses suicide attacks on the Sri Lankan Army for the first time. The Black Tigers are born and, in the following years, will continue to kill with the tactic.
• 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.

The temperature on October 2, 1987 was between 5.9 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (81%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.