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• Andrew James Bissmeyer, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 2005)

• Frans Van Loon (60), Turnhout
• Alan Hays (84), Washington DC,, Maryland, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelis Haasnoot (69), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Edmondus Camillus Willem (88), Zedelgem
• Adrianus Groenendaal (78), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Frederik ter Arkel (36)
• Antje Bosscher (74), Midwolda
• Elisabeth van Aelst (73)
• Adrianus Johannes Wilhelmus Nieuwlaat (76), amsterdam, Nederland
• Arie Willem Rodenburg (74), Rijswijk

• 1984 » Bárbara Lennie, Spanish actress
• 1984 » Edixon Perea, Colombian footballer
• 1984 » Nelson Évora, Ivorian-Portuguese triple jumper
• 1985 » Brent Seabrook, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1985 » Curt Hawkins, American wrestler
• 1987 » Chun Woo-hee, South Korean actress
• 1988 » Brandon Belt, American baseball player
• 1989 » Cally-Jo, English fine artist and tattoo artist
• 1989 » Carlos Valdes, Colombian-American actor and singer
• 1989 » Nina Davuluri, Miss America 2014

• 1980 » M. Canagaratnam, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1924)
• 1982 » Archibald MacLeish, American poet, playwright, and lawyer (b. 1892)
• 1986 » Sibte Hassan, Pakistani journalist, scholar, and activist (b. 1916)
• 1991 » Don Siegel, American director and producer (b. 1912)
• 1991 » Steve Marriott, English singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1947)
• 1992 » Benny Hill, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1924)
• 1992 » Marjorie Gestring, American springboard diver (b. 1922)
• 1993 » Cantinflas, Mexican actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1911)
• 1995 » Milovan Đilas, Yugoslav communist, politician, theorist and author (b. 1911)
• 1996 » Trần Văn Trà, Vietnamese general and politician (b. 1918)

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.
• April 27 » The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim (and his wife, Elisabeth, who had also been a Nazi) from entering the US, charging that he had aided in the deportations and executions of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
• May 11 » Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.
• October 6 » Fiji becomes a republic.
• October 11 » Start of Operation Pawan by Indian forces in Sri Lanka. Thousands of civilians, insurgents, soldiers die.
• 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 20, 1987 was between 5.9 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain during 3.6 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.