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• Thijs Wijers († 1987)
• Jeroen van der Helm († 2006)
• Erik Agricola († 2018)

• Adrianus Vreeken (84), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Amanda Celina Vercnocke (87), Oostende (B)
• Anja Kant (25), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Alfons De Kerf (85), Sint-Niklaas
• Aaltje Steenge (87)
• Antonia Hendrika Knuit (58), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arie HUISMAN (74), Zeist,Utrecht,NEDERLAND
• Christina Catharina Maria Jansen (97), Heerlen Limburg
• Anne Sophie RENAUD (76), Metz, Moselle, Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine, France
• Alida Maria Rurup (75), 's Gravenhage, den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1986 » Brett Anderson, Australian rugby league player
• 1986 » Carlos Bacca, Colombian footballer
• 1986 » Dan Hunt, Australian rugby league player
• 1986 » João Moutinho, Portuguese footballer
• 1986 » Matt Grothe, American football player
• 1987 » Alexandre Bilodeau, Canadian skier
• 1987 » Danielle Frenkel, Israeli high jumper
• 1987 » Illya Marchenko, Ukrainian tennis player
• 1987 » Marcel Nguyen, German gymnast
• 1987 » Wiz Khalifa, Haitian rapper and actor

• 1977 » Zero Mostel, American actor and comedian (b. 1915)
• 1980 » Willard Libby, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
• 1981 » Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
• 1981 » Nisargadatta Maharaj, Indian guru, philosopher, and educator (b. 1897)
• 1981 » Roy Wilkins, American journalist and activist (b. 1901)
• 1983 » Antonin Magne, French cyclist (b. 1904)
• 1985 » John Franklin Enders, American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1990 » Denys Watkins-Pitchford, English author and illustrator (b. 1905)
• 1991 » Alex North, American composer and conductor (b. 1910)
• 1997 » Derek Taylor, English journalist and author (b. 1932)

1. Michael
2. Jan
3. Thomas
4. Mark
5. Kevin
6. Jeroen
7. Johannes
8. Joshua
9. David
10. Dennis
11. Peter
12. Pieter
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.
• January 4 » The Maryland train collision: An Amtrak train en route to Boston from Washington, D.C., collides with Conrail engines in Chase, Maryland, United States, killing 16 people.
• February 23 » Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
• April 8 » Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigns amid controversy over racially charged remarks he had made while on Nightline.
• May 8 » The SAS kills eight Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a civilian during an ambush in Loughgall, Northern Ireland.
• May 15 » The Soviet Union launches the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform. It fails to reach orbit.
• July 24 » Hulda Crooks, at 91 years of age, climbed Mt. Fuji. Crooks became the oldest person to climb Japan's highest peak.

The temperature on September 8, 1987 was between 8.3 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.