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• Nienke Altena, Zoetermeer, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

• Aart van Maren (70)
• Auberion Charles Alan Campbell DUCKWORTH (80)
• Bernardus Mathias KUENEN (73), Volendam, Edam-Volendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Groenendijk (92), Sommelsdijk, Goeree-Overflakkee, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Schouten (79), Wognum
• Anna Vlaming (89)
• Donald Lee Atkinson (49), Royersford, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States of America
• Berendina Naafs (75), Usselo, Lonneker, Overijssel, Nederland
• Arie Korpel (81), Schiedam
• Antoon Buenk (85), Angerlo (Zevenaar)

• 1984 » Jed Lowrie, American baseball player
• 1984 » Pablo Sebastián Álvarez, Argentinian footballer
• 1984 » Raffaele Palladino, Italian footballer
• 1985 » Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, French tennis player
• 1985 » Luke Mitchell, Australian actor and model
• 1985 » Rooney Mara, American actress
• 1986 » Romain Grosjean, French race car driver
• 1988 » Takahiro Moriuchi, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1989 » Avi Kaplan, singer and songwriter
• 1989 » Paraskevi Papachristou, Greek triple jumper

• 1983 » Felix Pappalardi, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (b. 1939)
• 1984 » Claude Provost, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1933)
• 1987 » Cecil Harmsworth King, English publisher (b. 1901)
• 1987 » Dick Shawn, American actor (b. 1923)
• 1988 » Louise Nevelson, Ukrainian-American sculptor and educator (b. 1900)
• 1990 » Ralph Abernathy, American minister and activist (b. 1936)
• 1993 » Turgut Özal, Turkish engineer and politician, 8th president of Turkey (b. 1927)
• 1994 » Roger Wolcott Sperry, American psychologist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• 1995 » Frank E. Resnik, American sergeant and businessman (b. 1928)
• 1996 » Piet Hein, Danish poet and mathematician (b. 1905)

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.
• January 4 » The Maryland train collision: An Amtrak train en route to Boston from Washington, D.C., collides with Conrail engines in Chase, Maryland, United States, killing 16 people.
• May 1 » Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish-born Carmelite nun who was gassed in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.
• November 8 » Remembrance Day bombing: A Provisional IRA bomb explodes in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces. Twelve people are killed and sixty-three wounded.
• 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.
• December 8 » Cold War: The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the White House.
• 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 April 17, 1987 was between 8.1 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (7%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.