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• Petra MEYER († 1987)
• Kasey Chriatina Cummock, Salt Lake City
• Andrea Elizabeth Luciënne Barneveld, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1994)

• Bianca Coldenhoff (85), 's Gravenhage
• Arie Breedveld (76)
• Cornelia Bouwman (88), Oosternijkerk
• Cornelia Adriana Maris (85), Dinteloord
• Cornelis David Lobbezoo (62), Goes, Zeeland, Nederland
• Bertha Catharina Anastasia M. van Horsigh (88), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Clarence Wuis (72), Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Arie Breedveld (76), Sliedrecht
• Charl Pierre du Plessis (78), Zuid Afrika
• Anna Deblock (83), Keystone Heights, Clay County, Florida, Verenigde Staten

• 1986 » Leighton Meester, American actress
• 1986 » Mike Hart, American football player
• 1987 » Craig Mabbitt, American singer
• 1987 » Graham Gano, American football player
• 1987 » Jarrod Mullen, Australian rugby league player
• 1987 » Jazmine Sullivan, American singer-songwriter
• 1987 » Jesse McCartney, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1987 » Kassim Abdallah, French-Comorian footballer
• 1988 » Jeremy Metcalfe, English racing driver
• 1988 » Michel Alves Baroni, Brazilian footballer

• 1978 » Clough Williams-Ellis, English-Welsh architect, designed Portmeirion (b. 1883)
• 1980 » Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, Iraqi cleric and philosopher (b. 1935)
• 1982 » Wilfrid Pelletier, Canadian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1896)
• 1988 » Brook Benton, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1931)
• 1988 » Dave Prater, American singer (b. 1937)
• 1988 » Hans Berndt, German footballer (b. 1913)
• 1991 » Forrest Towns, American hurdler and coach (b. 1914)
• 1993 » Joseph B. Soloveitchik, American rabbi and philosopher (b. 1903)
• 1996 » Richard Condon, American author and publicist (b. 1915)
• 1997 » Mae Boren Axton, American singer-songwriter (b. 1914)

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.
• January 1 » The Isleta Pueblo tribe elect Verna Williamson to be their first female governor.
• February 26 » Iran–Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff.
• March 6 » The British ferry MSHerald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds, killing 193.
• March 20 » The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT.
• 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.
• July 4 » In France, former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie (a.k.a. the "Butcher of Lyon") is convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment.

The temperature on April 9, 1987 was between 6.0 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (21%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.