About the day » Wednesday December 9, 1987Calender converter

• Joeri de Leeuw
• Tessa Vlaardingerbroek, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1988)
• Nico Willem Nieboer, Groningen († 2015)

• Cornelis Oskam (67)
• Afke Jacobs Zijlstra (83), Berlikum, Menaldumadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Adrianus Franciscus van de Laar (90), Veghel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelis Kreuk (70), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Beryl Susan SUTTON (68)
• Dirk ter Hark (42)
• David Coppoolse (86), Veere, Zeeland, NL
• Aagtje Groothof (82), Appingedam (gem. Eemsdelta)
• Aukje van der Wal (88), Haulerwijk, Friesland, Nederland
• Cornelia Jacoba Rietveld (86), Reeuwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1983 » Jermaine Beckford, English-Jamaican footballer
• 1984 » Ángel Guirado, Spanish–Filipino footballer
• 1984 » Leon Hall, American football player
• 1984 » Michael Adam, German politician
• 1985 » Wil Besseling, Dutch golfer
• 1987 » Hikaru Nakamura, Japanese-American chess player
• 1987 » Kostas Giannoulis, Greek footballer
• 1987 » Mat Latos, American baseball player
• 1988 » Kwadwo Asamoah, Ghanaian footballer
• 1990 » Denise Hannema, Dutch cricketer

• 1979 » Fulton J. Sheen, American archbishop (b. 1895)
• 1982 » Leon Jaworski, American lawyer and politician (b. 1905)
• 1991 » Berenice Abbott, American photographer (b. 1898)
• 1992 » Vincent Gardenia, American actor (b. 1922)
• 1993 » Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer and manager (b. 1926)
• 1995 » Douglas Corrigan, American pilot (b. 1907)
• 1995 » Toni Cade Bambara, American author and academic (b. 1939)
• 1996 » Alain Poher, French lawyer and politician (b. 1909)
• 1996 » Mary Leakey, English archaeologist and anthropologist (b. 1913)
• 1996 » Patty Donahue, American singer-songwriter (b. 1956)

1. Michael
2. Jan
3. Thomas
4. Mark
5. Kevin
6. Jeroen
7. Johannes
8. Joshua
9. David
10. Dennis
11. Peter
12. Pieter
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 7 » Lieyu massacre: Taiwanese military massacre of 19 unarmed Vietnamese refugees at Donggang, Lieyu, Kinmen.
• August 19 » Hungerford massacre: In the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with a semi-automatic rifle and then commits suicide.
• October 6 » Fiji becomes a republic.
• November 1 » British Rail Class 43 (HST) hits the record speed of 238km/h for rail vehicles with on-board fuel to generate electricity for traction motors.
• December 8 » An Israeli army tank transporter kills four Palestinian refugees and injures seven others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the Israel–Gaza Strip border, which has been cited as one of the events which sparked the First Intifada.
• December 20 » In the worst peacetime sea disaster, the passenger ferry Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker 'MT Vector in the Tablas Strait of the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people (1,749 official).

The temperature on December 9, 1987 was between -7.7 °C and -3.4 °C and averaged -5.3 °C. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.