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• Tim Johannes Dekkers, Den Helder († 2007)
• Merel Maria de Vries, Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Pieter Pauwels

• Doede Dirks van Seyst (92)
• Anna Maria LEEMANS (82)
• Elsina Jantina Hoving (77), Ter-Apel Vlagtwedde Westerwolde Groningen Nederland
• Aart Versendaal (Verzendaal, Verrendaal) (58)
• Elsina Jantina Hoving (77), Ter-Apel, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Paulina Ernste (91), Ewijk
• Augustinus Johannes van Noort (87), Eindhoven
• Cornelis Johannes Marinus Philippo (89), Haarlem
• Cornelis Mallekoote (82), Heinkenszand, Zeeland, Nederland
• Akke Rijkholts Smink (75)

• 1985 » Aries Merritt, American hurdler
• 1985 » Lukáš Rosol, Czech tennis player
• 1985 » Patrice Bergeron, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 » Natalie Tran, Australian actress and online producer
• 1987 » Filipe Francisco dos Santos, Brazilian footballer
• 1987 » Nathan Gerbe, American ice hockey player
• 1987 » Zack Sabre Jr., English wrestler
• 1988 » Han Seung-yeon, South Korean singer and dancer
• 1988 » Nichkhun, Thai-American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1988 » Ricky Petterd, Australian footballer

• 1980 » Peter Sellers, English actor and comedian (b. 1925)
• 1985 » Ezechiele Ramin, Italian missionary and martyr (b. 1953)
• 1986 » Fritz Albert Lipmann, German-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1986 » Qudrat Ullah Shahab, Pakistani civil servant and author (b. 1917)
• 1991 » Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1992 » Arletty, French actress and singer (b. 1898)
• 1992 » Sam Berger, Canadian lawyer and businessman (b. 1900)
• 1994 » Helen Cordero, Cochiti Pueblo (Native American) Pueblo potter (b. 1915)
• 1995 » George Rodger, English photographer and journalist (b. 1908)
• 1996 » Alphonso Theodore Roberts, Vincentian cricketer and activist (b. 1937)

• 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 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.
• 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.
• August 16 » Northwest Airlines Flight 255, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashes after takeoff in Detroit, Michigan, killing 154 of the 155 on board, plus two people on the ground.
• November 8 » Remembrance Day bombing: A Provisional IRA bomb explodes in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces. Twelve people are killed and sixty-three wounded.
• 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.
• November 25 » Typhoon Nina pummels the Philippines with category 5 winds of 165mph and a surge that destroys entire villages. At least 1,036 deaths are attributed to the storm.

The temperature on July 24, 1987 was between 11.2 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain during 4.1 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.