About the day » Friday December 18, 1987Calender converter

• Wesley Gerardus Antonius Graven, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Thijs Eric Albert de VRIES, Maarssenbroek († 2020)
• Ruben Maria Sterk, Amsterdam

• André du Fresne de Beaucourt (78)
• André Lamers (28)
• Aaltje Rave (89), Hattem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje Vos (82), Huizen
• Aaltje Ekkel (27), Hardenberg, Overijssel, Nederland
• Annie Louise Walton (97), Columbia, Florida, United States
• Anna B Schmidt (70), Antioch, Contra Costa, California, Verenigde Staten
• Antoinette Joanna Cornelia van den Broek (81), Zundert
• Agatha de Weger (89), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Adriana Maria (Mies) van den ANKER (84), IJsselstein

• 1986 » Bill Stull, American football player
• 1986 » François Hamelin, Canadian speed skater
• 1986 » Usman Khawaja, Pakistani-Australian cricketer
• 1987 » Ayaka, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer
• 1987 » Miki Ando, Japanese figure skater
• 1987 » Yuki Furukawa, Japanese actor
• 1988 » Brianne Theisen-Eaton, Canadian heptathlete
• 1988 » Imad Wasim, Pakistani cricketer
• 1988 » Lizzie Deignan, English cyclist
• 1988 » Seth Doege, American football player

• 1982 » Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German colonel and pilot (b. 1916)
• 1985 » Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet and author (b. 1916)
• 1987 » Conny Plank, German keyboard player and producer (b. 1940)
• 1988 » Niyazi Berkes, Turkish Cypriot-English sociologist and academic (b. 1908)
• 1990 » Anne Revere, American actress (b. 1903)
• 1990 » Joseph Zubin, Lithuanian-American psychologist and academic (b. 1900)
• 1990 » Paul Tortelier, French cellist and composer (b. 1914)
• 1991 » George Abecassis, English race car driver (b. 1913)
• 1992 » Mark Goodson, American game show producer, created Family Feud and The Price Is Right (b. 1915)
• 1993 » Helm Glöckler, German race car driver (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 1 » The Isleta Pueblo tribe elect Verna Williamson to be their first female governor.
• February 2 » After the 1986 People Power Revolution, the Philippines enacts a new constitution.
• May 15 » The Soviet Union launches the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform. It fails to reach orbit.
• 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.
• July 24 » Hulda Crooks, at 91 years of age, climbed Mt. Fuji. Crooks became the oldest person to climb Japan's highest peak.
• 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 December 18, 1987 was between 10.0 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain during 3.2 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.