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• Jacobje Pater, Amerongen
• Mart van den Berg, Nijmegen († 1987)
• Yvonne Haak
• Chad M. Bellerdine, Ottawa,Ontario
• Robbert van Sunten, Oosterhout

• Adriaan Gerrit Blankesteijn (63)
• Adrianus van den Broek (66), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Elisabeth Antonia Maria Waterreus (88)
• Barend Marinus Gazendam (56), Rijswijk
• Alfred Robrecht Bruneel (61), Blankenberge
• Bernardus Antonius Hansman (59), Almelo
• Anna Berendina Wichman (80)
• Auke Visser (77), Kollumerzwaag
• Aleida Agnes Brummelhaus (81)
• Anna Josephine Marie Schulpen (80), Maastricht

• 1984 » Churandy Martina, Dutch sprinter
• 1984 » Manny Lawson, American football player
• 1986 » Kisenosato Yutaka, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1986 » Marco Antônio de Mattos Filho, Brazilian footballer
• 1987 » Sebastian Vettel, German race car driver
• 1988 » James Troisi, Australian footballer
• 1988 » Vladislav Sesganov, Russian figure skater
• 1988 » Winston Reid, New Zealand-Danish footballer
• 1989 » Elle King, American singer, songwriter, and actress
• 1989 » Mitchell Dodds, Australian rugby league player

• 1978 » James Daly, American actor (b. 1918)
• 1979 » Louis Durey, French pianist and composer (b. 1888)
• 1981 » Ross Martin, American actor and director (b. 1920)
• 1985 » Frank J. Selke, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (b. 1893)
• 1986 » Rudy Vallée, American singer, saxophonist, and actor (b. 1901)
• 1989 » Jim Backus, American actor and voice artist (b. 1913)
• 1993 » Don Drysdale, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1936)
• 1994 » Lew Hoad, Australian tennis player and coach (b. 1934)
• 1995 » Eddie Mazur, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
• 1995 » Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player (b. 1928)

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 22 » Philippine security forces open fire on a crowd of 10,000–15,000 demonstrators at Malacañang Palace, Manila, killing 13.
• May 11 » Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.
• May 28 » A West German pilot, Mathias Rust, who was 18 years old, evades Soviet Union air defences and lands a private plane in the Red Square in Moscow, Russia.
• July 24 » Hulda Crooks, at 91 years of age, climbed Mt. Fuji. Crooks became the oldest person to climb Japan's highest peak.
• August 19 » Hungerford massacre: In the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with a semi-automatic rifle and then commits suicide.
• 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 3, 1987 was between 10.0 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 13.3 hours of sunshine (80%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.