About the day » Saturday August 22, 1987Calender converter

• Matthew Guy HUDSON († 2004)

• Barth van der Sluys (75), Roermond,, Limburg, Nederland
• Antoine Allaroine MARSILJE (73), Dordrecht
• Cornelis Gerardus Albertus Meyer (61), Waalwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Dirkje van Kuilenburg (81)
• Carol Wallerstein (70), San Francisco, California, Verenigde Staten
• Celina Maria Ghielens (84), Kapellen
• Goezinne (59), Palma de Mallorca, Spanje
• Boelina van Dam (55), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Catharina Adriana Leijs (75), Werkendam
• Carsten Herman de Knijf (0), Amsterdam, Nederland

• 1984 » Lee Camp, English footballer
• 1985 » Jey Uso, Samoan-American wrestler
• 1985 » Jimmy Uso, Samoan-American wrestler
• 1985 » Luke Russert, American journalist
• 1986 » Neville, English wrestler
• 1986 » Stephen Ireland, Irish footballer
• 1986 » Tokushōryū Makoto, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1987 » Apollo Crews, American wrestler
• 1987 » Leonardo Moracci, Italian footballer
• 1989 » Giacomo Bonaventura, Italian footballer

• 1980 » James Smith McDonnell, American pilot, engineer, and businessman, founded McDonnell Aircraft (b. 1899)
• 1981 » Vicente Manansala, Filipino painter (b. 1910)
• 1985 » Charles Gibson (historian), Historian of Mexico and its Indians, President of the American Historical Association (b. 1920)
• 1986 » Celâl Bayar, Turkish lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Turkey (b. 1883)
• 1987 » Joseph P. Lash, American author and journalist (b. 1909)
• 1989 » Huey P. Newton, American activist, co-founded the Black Panther Party (b. 1942)
• 1989 » Robert Grondelaers, Belgian cyclist (b. 1933)
• 1991 » Boris Pugo, Russian soldier and politician, Soviet Minister of Interior (b. 1937)
• 1991 » Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian-American actress (b. 1924)
• 1994 » Gilles Groulx, Canadian director and screenwriter (b. 1931)

• 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 1 » The Isleta Pueblo tribe elect Verna Williamson to be their first female governor.
• February 6 » Justice Mary Gaudron becomes the first woman to be appointed to the High Court of Australia.
• April 21 » The Tamil Tigers are blamed for a car bomb that detonates in the Sri Lankan capital city of Colombo, killing 106 people.
• July 29 » Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and President of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayewardene sign the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord on ethnic issues.
• November 29 » North Korean agents plant a bomb on Korean Air Flight 858, which kills all 115 passengers and crew.
• December 7 » Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771, a British Aerospace 146-200A, crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and steers the plane into the ground.

The temperature on August 22, 1987 was between 17.0 °C and 24.3 °C and averaged 21.1 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (12%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.