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• Robert Barry Inglis, Auckland
• Ramona van der Sluis, Dodewaard (Gelderland) Nederland)

• Bauke Joukes Douma (75), Menaldum
• Christine Voosen (77), Esch sur Alzette
• Dieuwertje Sijm (96), Wervershoof, Medemblik,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Baijens Alfons Frans (73), Turnhout, Antwerpen, België
• Aaltje Mondria (88), Utrecht
• Charles Ferrier NELSON (79)
• Bauke Douma (75), -
• alvin W LEMKE (71), Appleton, Verenigde Staten
• Eeuwout Baart (80), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bernardina Christina Maria Bremer (91), Berg en Dal, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1984 » Antonio Cromartie, American football player
• 1984 » Cam Janssen, American ice hockey player
• 1984 » Daniel Paille, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1985 » Ryan Hamilton, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 » Sylvain Marveaux, French footballer
• 1986 » Tom Heaton, English footballer
• 1988 » Blake Ayshford, Australian rugby league player
• 1988 » Chris Tillman, American baseball pitcher
• 1988 » Steven Defour, Belgian footballer
• 1989 » Darren Nicholls, Australian rugby league player

• 1980 » Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1980 » Raymond Bailey, American actor and soldier (b. 1904)
• 1982 » Arthur Lowe, English actor (b. 1915)
• 1984 » Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedian and magician (b. 1921)
• 1986 » Jean Genet, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1910)
• 1988 » Kenneth Williams, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 1989 » Hu Yaobang, Chinese soldier and politician, former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b. 1915)
• 1990 » Greta Garbo, Swedish-American actress (b. 1905)
• 1993 » John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geophysicist and geologist (b. 1908)
• 1993 » Leslie Charteris, English author and screenwriter (b. 1907)

1. Michael
2. Jan
3. Thomas
4. Mark
5. Kevin
6. Jeroen
7. Johannes
8. Joshua
9. David
10. Dennis
11. Peter
12. Pieter
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.
• February 6 » Justice Mary Gaudron becomes the first woman to be appointed to the High Court of Australia.
• May 1 » Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish-born Carmelite nun who was gassed in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.
• 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 7 » Cold War: Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing the Bering Strait from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union.
• November 15 » In Brașov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
• November 18 » King's Cross fire: In London, 31 people die in a fire at the city's busiest underground station, King's Cross St Pancras.

The temperature on April 15, 1987 was between 4.2 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (35%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.