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• Ruth Jochems, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Arie de Geus (73), Pretoria (Gauteng, Zuid-Afrika)
• Anthony Telder (84), Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Daniel Oliver "Ollie" Wright (83), Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Agnes E Ennis (89), Harlan, Shelby, Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Arno Frederik van Oordt (67), Johannesburg, R.S.A.
• Barteldina Groen (86), Veendam
• Anna Henrietta Ravestein (83), Haarlemmermeer
• Aaltje Reitsma (87)
• Antony Telder (84), Den Helder
• Annie Margu‚rite Jansen (76), Sassenheim, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1985 » Drew Neitzel, American basketball player
• 1985 » Jarrad Hickey, Australian rugby league player
• 1986 » Matt Helders, English drummer
• 1987 » Asami Konno, Japanese singer
• 1987 » David Schlemko, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1987 » Mark Reynolds, Scottish footballer
• 1987 » Michael Maidens, English footballer († 2007)
• 1988 » Eino Puri, Estonian footballer
• 1988 » Sander Puri, Estonian footballer
• 1989 » Earl Thomas, American football player

• 1976 » Alison Uttley, English children's book writer (b. 1884)
• 1978 » Mort Weisinger, American journalist and author (b. 1915)
• 1986 » Haldun Taner, Turkish playwright and author (b. 1915)
• 1987 » Colin Blakely, Northern Irish actor (b. 1930)
• 1987 » Paul Popham, American soldier and activist, co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis (b. 1941)
• 1990 » Sam Tambimuttu, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (b. 1932)
• 1994 » Clement Greenberg, American art critic (b. 1909)
• 1995 » Ray McKinley, American drummer, singer, and bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra) (b. 1910)
• 1998 » Allan McLeod Cormack, South African-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1924)
• 1998 » Eddie Rabbitt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941)

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. Kim
7. Anna
8. Esther
9. Sanne
10. Nicole
11. Johanna
12. Amanda
13. Anne
14. Chantal
15. Michelle
16. Stephanie

• 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.
• May 8 » The SAS kills eight Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a civilian during an ambush in Loughgall, Northern Ireland.
• May 11 » Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.
• May 17 » Iran–Iraq War: An Iraqi Dassault Mirage F1 fighter jet fires two missiles into the U.S. Navy warship USSStark, killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.
• June 8 » New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987.
• 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.
• 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).

The temperature on May 7, 1987 was between 4.5 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.