About the day » Sunday February 8, 1987Calender converter

• Floor Smits, Roosendaal
• Jacobus Nicolas Edelbroek, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Afonso Sette (165), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
• Alphonsus Maria Kerremans (79), Tilburg, Noord Brabant
• Catharina Maria Santink (85), Amsterdam
• Berend Jacob Wentink (66), Leeuwarden
• Antonius Hendricus van der Heijden (83), Veghel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Kerstens (84), Eindhoven,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina Maria Postema (84), Amsterdam
• Albert Louis Weisss (88)
• Ewijk (22), Enschede
• Bertha van den BROEK (58)

• 1984 » Cecily Strong, American actress
• 1984 » Manuel Osborne-Paradis, Canadian skier
• 1985 » Jeremy Davis, American bass player and songwriter
• 1985 » Petra Cetkovská, Czech tennis player
• 1987 » Carolina Kostner, Italian figure skater
• 1987 » Javi García, Spanish footballer
• 1988 » Keegan Meth, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1989 » Courtney Vandersloot, American basketball player
• 1989 » Julio Jones, American football player
• 1989 » Zac Guildford, New Zealand rugby player

• 1979 » Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-English physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1980 » Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
• 1982 » John Hay Whitney, American financier and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (b. 1904)
• 1985 » William Lyons, English businessman, co-founded Swallow Sidecar Company (b. 1901)
• 1987 » Harriet E. MacGibbon, American actress (b. 1905)
• 1990 » Del Shannon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1934)
• 1990 » Ernest Titterton, British Australian nuclear physicist (b. 1916)
• 1992 » Denny Wright, British guitarist (b. 1924)
• 1992 » Stanley Armour Dunham, American sergeant (b. 1918)
• 1994 » Raymond Scott, American pianist and composer (b. 1908)

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.
• January 22 » Philippine security forces open fire on a crowd of 10,000–15,000 demonstrators at Malacañang Palace, Manila, killing 13.
• February 23 » Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
• May 3 » A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop the restrictor plate for the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega.
• May 5 » Iran–Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America
• June 29 » Vincent Van Gogh’s painting, the Le Pont de Trinquetaille, was bought for $20.4million at an auction in London, England.
• 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.

The temperature on February 8, 1987 was between -0.8 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain during 8.9 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.