About the day » Saturday May 9, 1987Calender converter

• Melanie Ann Plagerman, Bellingham, Whatcom County, Washington († 2011)
• Katelijne Marina Piet STRYCKERS, Wilrijk, Antwerpen († 2016)

• Earnest Grady George (81), Chicago, Cook, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Clarence MAES (52), ALAMEDA, California
• Albertha van Ommen (87), Apeldoorn, Nederland
• Cor Half, Egmond-Binnen
• Cornelis Willem Half (60), Egmond-Binnen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Naan van Oers (67), Woensdrecht,Noord-Brabant,Nederland
• Dick Diekema (78), Sherman Township, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Alberdina PIJLMAN (87)
• Arie de Graaf (85), Bilthoven, Utrecht, The Netherlands
• Christinus Balkema (84), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1983 » Giacomo Brichetto, Italian footballer
• 1984 » Chase Headley, American baseball player
• 1984 » Prince Fielder, American baseball player
• 1985 » Henrique Andrade Silva, Brazilian footballer
• 1985 » Jake Long, American football player
• 1987 » Kevin Gameiro, French footballer
• 1987 » Scott Bolton, Australian rugby league player
• 1987 » Vitaliy Pushkar, Ukrainian race car driver
• 1988 » J. R. Fitzpatrick, Canadian race car driver
• 1989 » Ellen White, English footballer

• 1979 » Cyrus S. Eaton, Canadian-American banker, businessman, and philanthropist (b. 1883)
• 1979 » Eddie Jefferson, American singer and lyricist (b. 1918)
• 1980 » Kate Molale, South African activist (b. 1928)
• 1981 » Nelson Algren, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1909)
• 1983 » Henry Bachtold, Australian soldier and railway engineer (b. 1891)
• 1985 » Edmond O'Brien, American actor and director (b. 1915)
• 1986 » Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese mountaineer (b. 1914)
• 1987 » Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian lawyer and politician (b. 1909)
• 1993 » Penelope Gilliatt, English novelist, short story writer, and critic (b. 1932)
• 1994 » Elias Motsoaledi, South African activist (b. 1924)

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.
• March 6 » The British ferry MSHerald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds, killing 193.
• June 19 » Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.
• June 28 » For the first time in military history, a civilian population is targeted for chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bombed the Iranian town of Sardasht.
• 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.
• September 13 » Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.
• 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 May 9, 1987 was between 4.2 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 12.8 hours of sunshine (83%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.