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• Godefridus Albertus Wilhelmus Boers, Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Matheus Cornelis Johannes Graafmans, Alphen &, Riel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2018)
• Zach Logan Cox, Holdenville, Wewoka County, Oklahoma († 1988)

• Camillus Josephus Sinnaeve (86), Torhout, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
• Abraham Johannes Landwehr (60), Hefshuizen (Uithuizermeeden)
• Antje de Groot (90), Weesp
• Anna Fokker (73), Laren
• Camiel Joseph Sinnaeve (86), Torhout
• Bastiaan van 't Velt (74), Hilversum
• Alida Petronella Gerarda de BORST (84), Zutphen
• Cornelia Francisca van Tuijl (76), Veldhoven
• Cornelia Elisabeth Maria MULDERS (95), Oud en Nieuw Gastel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Annie Fokker (73), Laren, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland

• 1986 » Briana Evigan, American actress and dancer
• 1986 » Emilia Clarke, English actress
• 1986 » Jake Robinson, English footballer
• 1987 » Félix Doubront, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1987 » Faye, Swedish singer-songwriter (Play)
• 1987 » Kyle Gibson, American baseball player
• 1987 » Miyuu Sawai, Japanese model and actress
• 1987 » Naomi Watanabe, Japanese actress
• 1987 » Robin Copeland, Irish rugby player
• 1987 » Seo In-guk, South Korean singer and actor

• 1978 » Maybelle Carter, American singer and autoharp player (Carter Family) (b. 1909)
• 1983 » Jessica Savitch, American journalist (b. 1947)
• 1984 » Oskar Werner, Austrian-German actor (b. 1922)
• 1986 » Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893)
• 1988 » Asashio Tarō III, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 46th Yokozuna (b. 1929)
• 1989 » Armida, Mexican-American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1911)
• 1990 » Thomas Williams, American author and academic (b. 1926)
• 1994 » Robert Lansing, American actor (b. 1928)
• 1996 » Bob Grim, American baseball player (b. 1930)
• 1997 » Bert Haanstra, Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1916)

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 21 » The Tamil Tigers are blamed for a car bomb that detonates in the Sri Lankan capital city of Colombo, killing 106 people.
• 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 9 » LOT Flight 5055 Tadeusz Kościuszko crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing all 183 people on board.
• June 12 » Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate, U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
• 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.
• November 25 » Typhoon Nina pummels the Philippines with category 5 winds of 165mph and a surge that destroys entire villages. At least 1,036 deaths are attributed to the storm.

The temperature on October 23, 1987 was between 1.5 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (27%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.