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• Teunis Veenema, Huis ter Heide († 1987)

• Chester Matthew Fonk (86), Kenosha, Kenosha, Wisconsin
• Amelie Van Woensel (82), Bonheiden, België
• Antonius Franciscus Hendricus Relou (71), Eindhoven,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaan de Ronde (78), Bruinisse Zeeland, Nederland
• Aafke Meijers (87)
• Catho Johanna Kuijpers (62), Ravenstein
• Cornelia Amsterdam (85), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Alfred John Dobb (71)
• Arie Arnold Julius Sigtermans (47), Roosendaal
• Alan Edward HILEY (39), Rochester Olmsted County Minnesota U.S.A

• 1984 » Maarten Heisen, Dutch sprinter
• 1984 » Marco Marcato, Italian cyclist
• 1984 » Maxime Talbot, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1985 » Šárka Strachová, Czech skier
• 1987 » Brian Matusz, American baseball player
• 1987 » Ellen van Dijk, Dutch cyclist
• 1987 » Jan Smeekens, Dutch speed skater
• 1987 » Juanmi Callejón, Spanish footballer
• 1987 » Luca Antonelli, Italian footballer
• 1988 » Vlad Moldoveanu, Romanian basketball player

• 1978 » James Bryant Conant, American chemist and academic (b. 1893)
• 1982 » Eleanor Powell, American actress and dancer (b. 1912)
• 1985 » Henry Hathaway, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1898)
• 1986 » Frank Herbert, American journalist and author (b. 1920)
• 1989 » George O'Hanlon, American actor and voice artist (b. 1912)
• 1993 » Robert W. Holley, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
• 1994 » Neil Bonnett, American race car driver (b. 1946)
• 1994 » Paul Feyerabend, Austrian-Swiss philosopher and academic (b. 1924)
• 1994 » Sorrell Booke, American lieutenant, actor, and director (b. 1930)
• 1994 » William Conrad, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1920)

• 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 26 » Iran–Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff.
• April 11 » The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
• April 27 » The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim (and his wife, Elisabeth, who had also been a Nazi) from entering the US, charging that he had aided in the deportations and executions of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
• August 19 » Hungerford massacre: In the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with a semi-automatic rifle and then commits suicide.
• December 7 » Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771, a British Aerospace 146-200A, crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and steers the plane into the ground.
• 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 February 11, 1987 was between -0.5 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.