About the day » Wednesday March 11, 1987Calender converter

• Frederik Devolder, Roeselare († 2013)
• Curtis Allen Denlinger, Preble County, Ohio († 1987)
• Gerard Huub Prinsen, Vrouwenpolder
• Timothy David Drenth, Webster, TX
• Jeroen Janssen, Boxmeer, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2004)

• Blanche Marie Vervaet (84), Wetteren
• Alice Mason (77), Steubenville, Jefferson County, Ohio
• Cécile CASTELAIN (80), Mouscron (Moeskroen)
• Adelheid Riess (98), Westminster, London, England
• Albertus Gijsen (78), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Boon (71), Beekbergen, Apeldoorn
• Allegonda Vervaart (72), Karlstad, Värmlands län, Sweden
• Lukassen (83), Groningen, Nederland
• Cornelia Margaretha Brewe (76), Leiden
• Crutz Jacob (61)

• 1985 » Paul Bissonnette, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 » Dario Cologna, Swiss skier
• 1986 » Mariko Shinoda, Japanese singer and actress
• 1987 » Colin Munro, South African-New Zealand cricketer
• 1987 » Marc-André Gragnani, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1987 » Ngonidzashe Makusha, Zimbabwean sprinter and long jumper
• 1987 » Tanel Kangert, Estonian cyclist
• 1988 » Cecil Lolo, South African footballer († 2015)
• 1988 » Fábio Coentrão, Portuguese footballer
• 1988 » Katsuhiko Nakajima, Japanese wrestler

• 1980 » Chandra Bhanu Gupta, Indian politician, 4th Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (b. 1902)
• 1982 » Edmund Cooper, English poet and author (b. 1926)
• 1982 » Horace Gregory, American poet, translator, and academic (b. 1898)
• 1983 » Will Glickman, American playwright (b. 1910)
• 1984 » Kostas Roukounas, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1903)
• 1986 » Sonny Terry, American singer and harmonica player (b. 1911)
• 1989 » James Kee, American lawyer and politician (b. 1917)
• 1989 » John J. McCloy, American lawyer and banker (b. 1895)
• 1992 » Richard Brooks, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 1995 » Myfanwy Talog, Welsh actress and singer (b. 1945)

• 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 19 » Televangelist Jim Bakker resigns as head of the PTL Club due to a brewing sex scandal; he hands over control to Jerry Falwell.
• May 28 » A West German pilot, Mathias Rust, who was 18 years old, evades Soviet Union air defences and lands a private plane in the Red Square in Moscow, Russia.
• 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 4 » The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine which had required radio and television stations to present controversial issues "fairly".
• October 21 » The Jaffna hospital massacre is carried out by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka, killing 70 ethnic Tamil patients, doctors and nurses.
• 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.

The temperature on March 11, 1987 was between -4.6 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 0.2 °C. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.