About the day » Wednesday October 7, 1987Calender converter

• Derk Martinus Reesink, Soest
• Rachel Faye Duis, Ocheyedan, Osceola County, Iowa († 1987)
• William Thewis, Luik, België († 1987)

• Cato VAN DER VEGT (86), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Donovan Ray McDonald DNA611 genimatched (17), Abilene, Taylor, TX, United States
• Ann Kleene (70), Sheldon, O'Brien County, Iowa
• Armand Stippelmans (76), Brustem, België
• Anje Bolt (79), Haren, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Maria Hazes (91), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Barney L. Marshall (58)
• Arie Arnoldus Ploeg (75), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Bartell Tatom (63), Stewart, Houston, Tennessee, United States of America
• Adrianus van Egmond (76), OOSTERBEEK (Renkum), GD, NL

• 1986 » Amy Satterthwaite, New Zealand cricketer
• 1986 » Bree Olson, American actress, model, and former porn actress
• 1986 » Chase Daniel, American football player
• 1986 » Gunnar Nielsen, Faroese footballer
• 1986 » Lee Nguyen, American soccer player
• 1987 » Aiden English, American wrestler
• 1987 » Jeremy Brockie, New Zealand footballer
• 1987 » Sam Querrey, American tennis player
• 1988 » Diego da Silva Costa, Brazilian footballer
• 1988 » Lauren Mayberry, Scottish singer-songwriter

• 1983 » George O. Abell, American astronomer, professor, science popularizer, and skeptic (b. 1927)
• 1985 » Cemal Reşit Rey, Turkish pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1904)
• 1990 » Beatrice Hutton, Australian architect (b. 1893)
• 1990 » Chiara Badano, Italian beatified (b.1971)
• 1991 » Darren Millane, Australian footballer (b. 1965)
• 1991 » Harry W. Brown, American colonel and pilot (b. 1921)
• 1991 » Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (b. 1905)
• 1992 » Allan Bloom, American philosopher and educator (b. 1930)
• 1992 » Babu Karam Singh Bal, Indian businessman and politician (b.1927)
• 1993 » Cyril Cusack, South African-born Irish actor (b. 1910)

• 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.
• February 23 » Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
• April 19 » The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with Good Night.
• June 12 » The Central African Republic's former emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.
• 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.
• August 4 » The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues "fairly".
• September 3 » In a coup d'état in Burundi, President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza is deposed by Major Pierre Buyoya.

The temperature on October 7, 1987 was between 7.4 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 9.2 mm of rain during 8.2 hours. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.