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• Yoeri Alexander Zondervan, Sneek

• Bruce Robertson (54), St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands
• Christiaan Pluim (93), Elspeet
• Anna Petronella Johanna van Tiggelen (62), Moerstraten,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cato Kooyman (94), Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Aafje Catharina van der Veen (64), Deventer
• Albertus van den Bos (77), Veenendaal
• Adeline Lecomte (73), Ettelbruck, 9001 ( G.H. Lux )
• Cormelis Smallenburg (73), Amersfoort
• Deliana Beerends (96), Pella, Marion County, Iowa
• Anna, Petronella, Johanna van Tiggelen (62), Moerstraten

• 1984 » Andrew Ellis, New Zealand rugby player
• 1984 » David Odonkor, German footballer
• 1984 » James Wisniewski, American ice hockey player
• 1984 » Marco Paoloni, Italian footballer
• 1985 » Georgios Samaras, Greek footballer
• 1985 » Jamaal Westerman, American football player
• 1986 » Charlotte Church, Welsh singer-songwriter and actress
• 1987 » Ellen Page, Canadian actress
• 1989 » Corbin Bleu, American actor, model, dancer, film producer and singer-songwriter
• 1990 » Mattias Tedenby, Swedish ice hockey player

• 1980 » Alfred Andersch, German-Swiss author (b. 1914)
• 1982 » Gershom Scholem, German-Israeli historian and philosopher (b. 1897)
• 1984 » Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1985 » Louis Hayward, South African-American actor (b. 1909)
• 1986 » Helen Hooven Santmyer, American novelist (b. 1895)
• 1991 » Dorothy Auchterlonie Green, Australian poet, critic, and academic (b. 1915)
• 1993 » Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist and geophysicist (b. 1888)
• 1994 » Johannes Steinhoff, German general and pilot (b. 1913)
• 1996 » Morton Gould, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1913)
• 1999 » Gertrude B. Elion, American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)

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. Kim
7. Anna
8. Esther
9. Sanne
10. Nicole
11. Johanna
12. Amanda
13. Anne
14. Chantal
15. Michelle
16. Stephanie

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• August 16 » Northwest Airlines Flight 255, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashes after takeoff in Detroit, Michigan, killing 154 of the 155 on board, plus two people on the ground.
• 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.
• November 29 » North Korean agents plant a bomb on Korean Air Flight 858, which kills all 115 passengers and crew.
• December 22 » In Zimbabwe, the political parties ZANU and ZAPU reach an agreement that ends the violence in the Matabeleland region known as the Gukurahundi.

The temperature on February 21, 1987 was between -2.7 °C and 3.7 °C and averaged 0.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.