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• Christiaan Liebertus Kamphorst, Ermelo, Gelderland, Nederland († 1987)
• Christiaan Liebertus Kamphorst, Ermelo († 1987)
• Leon Hoek, Alkmaar († 1987)

• Christiaan Leibbrand (52), Amsterdam
• Annie Oosterhof (76), Almelo
• Anna Terweij (80), Amsterdam
• Anna Maria Brouwers (81), Gilze en Rijen
• Arthur Persyn (62)
• Adrianus Johannes de Vaan (70), 's-Hertogenbosh
• Arie Geurtse van Brenk (86), Rijswijk (Maurik) (GL)
• Annie Oosterhof (76)
• Alzira Chagas Cortez (100), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
• Blume Bailen (89), Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

• 1986 » Altaír Jarabo, Mexican model and actress
• 1986 » Juan de la Rosa, Mexican boxer
• 1986 » Paul Biedermann, German swimmer
• 1986 » Valter Birsa, Slovenian footballer
• 1987 » Mustapha Dumbuya, Sierra Leonean footballer
• 1987 » Rouven Sattelmaier, German footballer
• 1987 » Ryan Lavarnway, American baseball player
• 1987 » Sidney Crosby, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1988 » Jonathan Bernier, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1988 » Mohamed Coulibaly, Senegalese footballer

• 1973 » Jack Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet and author (b. 1925)
• 1974 » Sylvio Mantha, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1902)
• 1978 » Eddie Calvert, English trumpeter (b. 1922)
• 1981 » Gunnar Uusi, Estonian chess player (b. 1931)
• 1985 » Grayson Hall, American actress (b. 1922)
• 1987 » Camille Chamoun, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 7th President of Lebanon (b. 1900)
• 1989 » Mickey Leland, American lawyer and politician (b. 1944)
• 1994 » Larry Martyn, English actor (b. 1934)
• 1995 » Brigid Brophy, English author and critic (b. 1929)

• 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 11 » Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Bernie Grant are elected as the first black MPs in Great Britain.
• June 17 » With the death of the last individual of the species, the dusky seaside sparrow becomes extinct.
• July 24 » US supertanker SSBridgeton collides with mines laid by IRGC causing a 43-square-meter dent in the body of the oil tanker.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 August 7, 1987 was between 9.7 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (32%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.