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March 7, 1987Born on Sunday March 8, 1987
- Matthew Carlyle Ebanks († 2018)
Died on Sunday March 8, 1987
- Albert Jan Breukelman (88), Hardenberg
- Cornelis Govert Kuiters (66), Dordrecht
- Bernard Heinrich Marie Slee (77), Achel, Belgie
- Albert Zwiggelaar (53), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
- Astrid Johanna Maria (Astrid) Schröder (0), Glimmen, Gr, Nederland
- Donald Ray Beckley (76), United States of America
- Bernice Blanch Bowman (69), Florida, Verenigde Staten
- Cornelis Govert Kuiters (66), Dordrecht
- Cornelia Christina Antonia van de Roemer (89), Zutphen
- Egbert Boomgaard (76), Apeldoorn
Born on March 8
- 1984 » Rafik Djebbour, Algerian footballer
- 1984 » Ross Taylor, New Zealand cricketer
- 1984 » Sasha Vujačić, Slovenian basketball player
- 1987 » Jonathan Wright, Australian rugby league player
- 1988 » Benny Blanco, American rapper and producer
- 1988 » Tommy Pham, American baseball player
- 1990 » Asier Illarramendi, Spanish footballer
- 1990 » Ben Tozer, English footballer
- 1990 » Nico Salva, Filipino basketball player
- 1990 » Petra Kvitová, Czech tennis player
Died on March 8
- 1983 » Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, English lieutenant and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1904)
- 1983 » Chabuca Granda, Peruvian-American singer-songwriter (b. 1920)
- 1983 » William Walton, English composer (b. 1902)
- 1985 » Edward Andrews, American actor (b. 1914)
- 1988 » Amar Singh Chamkila, Indian singer-songwriter (b. 1961)
- 1988 » Werner Hartmann, German physicist and academic (b. 1912)
- 1991 » John Bellairs, American author and academic (b. 1938)
- 1993 » Billy Eckstine, American trumpet player (b. 1914)
- 1996 » Jack Churchill, British colonel (b. 1906)
- 1997 » Gershon Liebman, French rabbi (b. 1905)
Names that were popular for boys in 1987
- Johannes
- Jan
- Michael
- Cornelis
- Thomas
- Hendrik
- Willem
- Pieter
- Peter
- David
- Robert
- John
- Mark
- Alexander
- Martijn
- Maria
Names that were popular for girls in 1987
- Maria
- Johanna
- Marie
- Elisabeth
- Anna
- Anne
- Nicole
- Laura
- Jessica
- Elizabeth
- Wilhelmina
- Hendrika
- Sarah
- Linda
- Cornelia
- Michelle
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1987
- 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 2 » After the 1986 People Power Revolution, the Philippines enacts a new constitution.
- April 19 » The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with Good Night.
- July 29 » British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel).
- August 19 » Hungerford massacre: In the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with a semi-automatic rifle and then commits suicide.
- September 16 » The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion.
- December 8 » An Israeli army tank transporter kills four Palestinian refugees and injures seven others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the Israel–Gaza Strip border, which has been cited as one of the events which sparked the First Intifada.
The weather on Sunday March 8, 1987
The temperature on March 8, 1987 was between -4.9 °C and 2.3 °C and averaged -1.7 °C. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.
Source: KNMI
Source: KNMI