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• Remco Hofstee
• Stephanie Lee Crow († 2007)

• Cornelia Maria Pelkmans (55), Gilze, Nederland
• Berend Jeuring (72), Emmen/NwAmsterdam
• Cornelis van Erk (61), Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel
• Cornelia van Bommel (82), Oirschot
• Cornelia Maria van Dijck (80), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alberta Bekhof (82)
• Cornelia Franciska van Essel (87), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Berend Jeuring (72), Emmen,Drenthe,Niederlande,Nieuw Amsterdam
• Cornelis Johannes van Eyck (71), Rosmalen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Daniel Anthony Andreas (68), Toppenish, Yakima, Washington, Verenigde Staten

• 1985 » Valeria Lukyanova, Moldovan-Ukrainian model and singer
• 1986 » Brett Morris, Australian rugby league player
• 1986 » Josh Morris, Australian rugby league player
• 1986 » Neil Cicierega, American comedian and musician
• 1988 » Carl Hagelin, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1988 » Jeremy Lin, American basketball player
• 1988 » Olga Govortsova, Belarusian tennis player
• 1989 » Heiko Schwarz, German footballer
• 1989 » Lianne La Havas, British singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist
• 1989 » Trixie Mattel, American drag queen, actor, and country singer

• 1977 » Naum Gabo, Russian sculptor and academic (b. 1890)
• 1982 » Stanford Moore, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• 1987 » Didier Pironi, French race car and boat driver (b. 1952)
• 1989 » Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese poet and academic (b. 1944)
• 1989 » R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist and author (b. 1927)
• 1990 » David Rose, American pianist and composer (b. 1910)
• 1994 » Zoltán Fábri, Hungarian director and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 1995 » Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-American photographer and journalist (b. 1898)
• 1996 » Margaret Tucker, Australian author and activist (b. 1904)
• 1997 » Eric Gairy, Grenadian educator and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1922)

• 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.
• February 26 » Iran–Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff.
• May 8 » The SAS kills eight Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a civilian during an ambush in Loughgall, Northern Ireland.
• June 17 » With the death of the last individual of the species, the dusky seaside sparrow becomes extinct.
• July 5 » Sri Lankan Civil War: The LTTE uses suicide attacks on the Sri Lankan Army for the first time. The Black Tigers are born and, in the following years, will continue to kill with the tactic.
• July 29 » British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel).
• November 29 » North Korean agents plant a bomb on Korean Air Flight 858, which kills all 115 passengers and crew.

The temperature on August 23, 1987 was between 13.2 °C and 22.5 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.