About the day » Thursday August 6, 1987Calender converter

• Hoogerheide, Alkmaar († 1987)

• Augustinus Lambertus Mauritsz (94), Geertruidenberg
• Cornelia Lensvelt (94), Geertruidenberg
• Eijmert van den Berg (92), Amsterdam
• Derk Kruizinga (63), Den Haag
• Alice Mulder (68), Byron (Kent, Michigan, USA)
• Antonius Cornelis Versteeg (76), De Bilt, Utrecht, Nederland
• Cornelis de Wit (72), Den Haag
• Alida Bijloos (75), Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Ada Stout (86), New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, United States
• EIBERT ARJEN MOSTERD (16), HARDERWIJK

• 1983 » Neil Harvey, English-Barbadian footballer
• 1984 » Jesse Ryder, New Zealand cricketer
• 1984 » Vedad Ibišević, Bosnian footballer
• 1985 » Bafétimbi Gomis, French footballer
• 1985 » Garrett Weber-Gale, American swimmer
• 1985 » Mickaël Delage, French cyclist
• 1985 » Viktoria Baškite, Estonian chess player
• 1986 » Mehmet Akgün, Turkish footballer
• 1986 » Raphael Pyrasch, German rugby player
• 1987 » Leanne Crichton, Scottish footballer

• 1983 » Klaus Nomi, German singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1944)
• 1985 » Forbes Burnham, Guyanese politician, 2nd President of Guyana (b. 1923)
• 1986 » Emilio Fernández, Mexican actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1904)
• 1987 » Ira C. Eaker, American general (b. 1896)
• 1990 » Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist and politician (b. 1912)
• 1991 » Harry Reasoner, American journalist, co-created 60 Minutes (b. 1923)
• 1991 » Roland Michener, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Governor General of Canada (b. 1900)
• 1991 » Shapour Bakhtiar, Iranian soldier and politician, 74th Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1915)
• 1992 » Leszek Błażyński, Polish boxer (b. 1949)
• 1993 » Tex Hughson, American baseball player (b. 1916)

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.
• February 6 » Justice Mary Gaudron becomes the first woman to be appointed to the High Court of Australia.
• April 27 » The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim (and his wife, Elisabeth, who had also been a Nazi) from entering the US, charging that he had aided in the deportations and executions of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer 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.
• October 6 » Fiji becomes a republic.
• October 19 » The United States Navy conducts Operation Nimble Archer, an attack on two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf.
• December 8 » Cold War: The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the White House.

The temperature on August 6, 1987 was between 5.8 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.