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• Jeffrey Scott Hess († 1990)
• Juan Federico Grijalba Villanueva, Popayán,Cauca,Colombia († 2008)

• Cornelis Jan VEDER (76)
• Anna Lydia Elisabeth Braukmann (80), Apeldoorn
• Aaltje Schoonewille (69), Amsterdam
• Albertus Frederik Berkemeier (65), Uithoorn
• Elisabeth Hansum (84), Harderwijk, Gelderland, The Netherlands
• Elechien Slagter (72)
• Elisabeth Aggelen van (73), Bennekom
• Anna Adriana Cornelia Otten (60), Tilburg
• Antonia Johanna de Bont (92)
• Elisa Wilhelmina Ruijtenbeek (81), Hout-Blerick, Venlo, Limburg, Nederland

• 1985 » Gianluca Curci, Italian footballer
• 1985 » Keven Lacombe, Canadian cyclist
• 1985 » Paulo Vitor Barreto, Brazilian footballer
• 1986 » 360, Australian rapper
• 1986 » Didier Digard, French footballer
• 1986 » Hannaliis Jaadla, Estonian footballer
• 1986 » JP Pietersen, South African rugby player
• 1986 » Simone Laudehr, German footballer
• 1988 » Inbee Park, South Korean golfer
• 1988 » LeSean McCoy, American football player

• 1979 » Minnie Riperton, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
• 1979 » Olive Morris, Jamaican-English civil rights activist († 1979)
• 1982 » Kenneth More, English actor (b. 1914)
• 1983 » Chris Wood, English saxophonist (b. 1944)
• 1990 » João Saldanha, Brazilian footballer, manager, and journalist (b. 1917)
• 1992 » Caroline Pafford Miller, American journalist and author (b. 1903)
• 1993 » Dan Eldon, English photographer and journalist (b. 1970)
• 1994 » Eila Campbell, English geographer and cartographer (b. 1915)
• 1996 » John Chancellor, American journalist (b. 1927)
• 1997 » François Furet, French historian and author (b. 1927)

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. Tim
15. Sander
16. Bart

1. Maria
2. Jessica
3. Sarah
4. Laura
5. Linda
6. Anna
7. Esther
8. Kim
9. Sanne
10. Nicole
11. Johanna
12. Amanda
13. Anne
14. Chantal
15. Michelle
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.
• 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 11 » Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Bernie Grant are elected as the first black MPs in Great Britain.
• June 29 » Vincent Van Gogh’s painting, the Le Pont de Trinquetaille, was bought for $20.4million at an auction in London, England.
• July 24 » Hulda Crooks, at 91 years of age, climbed Mt. Fuji. Crooks became the oldest person to climb Japan's highest peak.
• July 31 » A tornado occurs in Edmonton, Canada.
• 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 July 12, 1987 was between 12.4 °C and 21.6 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 13.2 hours of sunshine (80%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.