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• Ilse Kamstra, Landsmeer (noord-holland)

• Antonia Maria Hesp (78), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alphons Joseph de Rooij (78), Hulst, Nederland
• Aagje de Vries (88), Purmerend
• Achiel Karel van Laere (73), Sint-Gillis-Waas, B
• Agatha Anna Stiekema (90), Wedde, Blijham
• Dirk van Duijn (92), Katwijk
• Akke Hakze (77), Nijbeets, Opsterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Christina Margaretha Elisabeth Hoing (85), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Carla Wilhelmina Wustenhoff (83), Sassenheim, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Clasina Margaretha Brons (89), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1986 » İbrahim Kaş, Turkish footballer
• 1986 » Aldis Hodge, American actor
• 1986 » Hayato Fujita, Japanese wrestler
• 1986 » Jason Nightingale, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1987 » Gain, South Korean singer
• 1987 » Jack Lawless, American drummer
• 1987 » Tito Tebaldi, Italian rugby player
• 1988 » Ayano Ōmoto, Japanese singer and dancer
• 1988 » Ryan Simpkins, Australian rugby league player
• 1988 » Sergei Bobrovsky, Russian ice hockey player

• 1979 » Ludvík Svoboda, Czech general and politician, 8th President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1895)
• 1984 » Steve Goodman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948)
• 1985 » Helen MacInnes, Scottish-American librarian and author (b. 1907)
• 1987 » Michael Stewart, American playwright and composer (b. 1924)
• 1993 » Erich Hartmann, German soldier and pilot (b. 1922)
• 1994 » Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean physician, academic, and diplomat (b. 1924)
• 1994 » Jule Styne, American composer (b. 1905)
• 1996 » Paul Erdős, Hungarian-Polish mathematician and academic (b. 1913)
• 1996 » Paul Weston, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1912)
• 1996 » Reuben Kamanga, Zambian politician, 1st Vice-President of Zambia (b. 1929)

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. Kim
7. Anna
8. Esther
9. Sanne
10. Nicole
11. Johanna
12. Amanda
13. Anne
14. Chantal
15. Michelle
16. Stephanie

• 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.
• 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.
• June 8 » New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987.
• July 4 » In France, former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie (a.k.a. the "Butcher of Lyon") is convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment.
• July 24 » US supertanker SSBridgeton collides with mines laid by IRGC causing a 43-square-meter dent in the body of the oil tanker.
• October 21 » The Jaffna hospital massacre is carried out by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka, killing 70 ethnic Tamil patients, doctors and nurses.
• 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 September 20, 1987 was between 15.0 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 17.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.