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• Janneke Meesters, Bergen op Zoom († 1987)

• Afra Maria Koopman (83), Schagen
• Antoinette Hendrickx (75), Leuven (B), België
• Aaltje Jonkman (84), Avereest, Overijssel, Nederland
• Cornelis Franciscus Antonius van den Bergh (87), Sittard
• Cornelis Adrianus Boei (84), Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aloísia Weishaupt (84), São José do Rio Pardo, São Paulo, Brasil
• Cornelis van den Berg (73), amsterdam
• Aaltje Jonkman (84), Avereest
• ANTJE VAN VELDHUISEN (78), Barneveld
• Celina de Vocht (83), Valkenswaard, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands

• 1985 » Aristeidis Grigoriadis, Greek swimmer
• 1985 » Rudra Pratap Singh, Indian cricketer
• 1985 » Shannon Bobbitt, American basketball player
• 1986 » Matt Niskanen, American ice hockey player
• 1986 » Sean Edwards, English race car driver († 2013)
• 1988 » Adam Eaton, American baseball player
• 1988 » Nils Petersen, German footballer
• 1988 » Nobunaga Shimazaki, Japanese voice actor
• 1988 » Ravindra Jadeja, Indian Cricketer
• 1988 » Sandra Nurmsalu, Estonian singer and violinist

• 1983 » Gul Khan Nasir, Pakistani poet, historian, and politician (b. 1914)
• 1983 » Lucienne Boyer, French singer and actress (b. 1903)
• 1985 » Burleigh Grimes, American baseball player and manager (b. 1893)
• 1985 » Burr Tillstrom, American actor and puppeteer (b. 1917)
• 1988 » Roy Orbison, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1936)
• 1989 » Frances Bavier, American actress (b. 1902)
• 1989 » John Payne, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1912)
• 1989 » Sammy Fain, American pianist and composer (b. 1902)
• 1990 » Pavlos Sidiropoulos, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948)
• 1990 » Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Malaysia (b. 1903)

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.
• 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.
• 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 7 » Cold War: Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing the Bering Strait from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union.
• October 6 » Fiji becomes a republic.
• December 9 » Israeli–Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.

The temperature on December 6, 1987 was between -2.4 °C and 1.4 °C and averaged -0.4 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.