About the day » Friday March 20, 1987Calender converter

• Kevin Trienpont
• Goverdina Cornelia HELDEN, van, 's Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1987)

• Berendina Hofstede (96), Goor
• Aafje Roorda (68), Heino
• Cornelia Johanna Hendrika Olfhoff (89), Sneek, Friesland, Nederland
• Cecile Marie Augustine Ghislaine Van Neste (89), De Panne West-Vlaanderen
• Berendina Hofstede (96), Goor
• Benedictus Croes (66), Bornem
• Abraham Leunis Theri (70), Rotterdam
• Cécile de Rocher de La Baume du Puy-Montbrun (79), Barcelona
• Aaltje de Vries (94), Zuidbroek
• Alma Louise Barnes (59), Vallejo, Solano, California, Verenigde Staten

• 1985 » Morgan Amalfitano, French footballer
• 1985 » Ronnie Brewer, American basketball player
• 1986 » Dean Geyer, South African-Australian singer-songwriter and actor
• 1986 » Julián Magallanes, Argentinian footballer
• 1986 » Román Torres, Panamanian footballer
• 1986 » Ruby Rose, Australian actress and model
• 1987 » Daniel Maa Boumsong, Cameroonian footballer
• 1987 » Jô, Brazilian footballer
• 1987 » Pedro Ken, Brazilian footballer
• 1987 » Sergei Kostitsyn, Belarusian ice hockey player

• 1977 » Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, English politician, 9th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1909)
• 1977 » Terukuni Manzō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 38th Yokozuna (b. 1919)
• 1978 » Jacques Brugnon, French tennis player (b. 1895)
• 1981 » Gerry Bertier, American football player (b. 1953)
• 1983 » Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1891)
• 1990 » Lev Yashin, Russian footballer (b. 1929)
• 1990 » Maurice Cloche, French director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1907)
• 1992 » Georges Delerue, French composer (b. 1925)
• 1993 » Polykarp Kusch, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1994 » Lewis Grizzard, American writer and humorist (b. 1946)

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. 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.
• April 19 » The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with Good Night.
• May 8 » The SAS kills eight Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a civilian during an ambush in Loughgall, Northern Ireland.
• May 11 » Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.
• July 29 » Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and President of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayewardene sign the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord on ethnic issues.
• October 19 » The United States Navy conducts Operation Nimble Archer, an attack on two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf.
• 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 March 20, 1987 was between -1.4 °C and 5.3 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (17%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.