About the day » Friday December 11, 1987Calender converter

• Jef Stan Van den Wyngaert, Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant († 1987)
• Klaas Willaert, destelbergen
• Heleen van der Graaf, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland († 2006)

• Cornelis Jacobus Kaandorp (60), Beverwijk
• Cornelia Weij (82), Nieuw Vennep, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Maria van der Salm (94)
• Charles Eric Knibbs (66), Surrey Northern, Surrey, England
• Auguste Anna Badenhop (76), Ubbergen gem. Berg en Dal Gld. Nederland
• Albertus Theodorus Maria van Os (77), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Alida van Zijp (85), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonie Hoogesteger (96), Schagen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Clara Ruth "Boots" Riddle (68), Washington Co. Pennsylvania
• Cornelis Jacobus Kaandorp (60), Beverwijk

• 1984 » James Ellsworth, American wrestler
• 1984 » Leighton Baines, English footballer
• 1984 » Sandra Echeverría, Mexican actress and singer
• 1985 » Karla Souza, Mexican actress
• 1986 » Roy Hibbert, American basketball player
• 1987 » Alex Russell, Australian actor
• 1987 » Clifton Geathers, American football player
• 1987 » Miranda Tapsell, Australian actress
• 1988 » Tim Southee, New Zealand cricketer
• 1990 » Derrick Nix, American basketball player

• 1979 » James J. Gibson, American psychologist and author (b. 1904)
• 1983 » Neil Ritchie, Guyanese-English general (b. 1897)
• 1984 » George Waggner, American director, producer and actor (b. 1894)
• 1984 » Oskar Seidlin, German-American author, poet, and scholar (b. 1911)
• 1987 » G. A. Kulkarni, Indian author and academic (b. 1923)
• 1989 » Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (b. 1895)
• 1991 » Artur Lundkvist, Swedish author and critic (b. 1906)
• 1991 » Robert Q. Lewis, American actor, comedian, game show host/panelist, and television personality (b. 1921)
• 1994 » Philip Phillips, American archaeologist and scholar (b. 1900)
• 1995 » Greg Bahnsen, American minister and philosopher (b. 1948)

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.
• March 6 » The British ferry MSHerald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds, killing 193.
• June 11 » Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Bernie Grant are elected as the first black MPs in Great Britain.
• June 28 » For the first time in military history, a civilian population is targeted for chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bombed the Iranian town of Sardasht.
• August 4 » The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues "fairly".
• October 19 » The United States Navy conducts Operation Nimble Archer, an attack on two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf.
• November 8 » Remembrance Day bombing: A Provisional IRA bomb explodes in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces. Twelve people are killed and sixty-three wounded.

The temperature on December 11, 1987 was between 2.1 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.