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• Joseph Ted van de Merwe, Teaneck, New Yersey

• Adrianus Antonius van Strien (78), 's-Hertogenbosch, Nederland
• Elaine Rae Reynolds (61), Yakima (Yakima County) (Washington)
• Aloysius Verbist (79), Kapellen (B), België
• Anna S Bieniek (90)
• Antoon Knijn (66), Hoorn
• ANTHONY RAY NANCE (36), New Orleans, LA, United States
• Anthonie Johannes van Dijk (79)
• Anna Margaretha Zoete (80), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alegría Benzecry Benmergui BENZECRY (73), Caracas, Venezuela
• Aaltje Jacobs (68), Rheden-Velp

• 1979 » Kyle Calder, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1981 » Deadmau5 (Joel Thomas Zimmerman), Canadian musician
• 1982 » Janica Kostelić, Croatian skier
• 1984 » Derrick Atkins, Bahamian sprinter
• 1985 » Diego Vera, Uruguayan footballer
• 1986 » Deepika Padukone, Indian actress
• 1988 » Azizulhasni Awang, Malaysian track cyclist
• 1988 » Luke Daniels, English footballer
• 1989 » Krisztián Németh, Hungarian footballer
• 1990 » Mark Nicholls, Australian rugby league player

• 1981 » Harold Urey, American chemist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893)
• 1981 » Lanza del Vasto, Italian poet and philosopher (b. 1901)
• 1982 » Edmund Herring, Australian general and politician, 7th Chief Justice of Victoria (b. 1892)
• 1982 » Hans Conried, American actor (b. 1917)
• 1985 » Robert L. Surtees, American cinematographer (b. 1906)
• 1987 » Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian-Canadian skier (b. 1875)
• 1987 » Margaret Laurence, Canadian author and academic (b. 1926)
• 1990 » Arthur Kennedy, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1991 » Vasko Popa, Serbian poet and academic (b. 1922)
• 1994 » Tip O'Neill, American lawyer and politician, 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1912)

1. Thomas
2. Jan
3. Robert
4. Michael
5. Mark
6. Niels
7. Nick
8. Kevin
9. Jeroen
10. Patrick
11. Peter
12. Robin
13. David
14. Sander
15. Johannes
16. Stefan

1. Kim
2. Maria
3. Laura
4. Chantal
5. Linda
6. Sanne
7. Jessica
8. Lisanne
9. Anne
10. Anna
11. Stephanie
12. Johanna
13. Sarah
14. Tamara
15. Charlotte
16. Samantha

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 14.8 million citizens.
• April 1 » Margaret Thatcher's new local government tax, the Community Charge (commonly known as the "poll tax"), is introduced in Scotland.
• April 21 » Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: In Beijing, around 100,000 students gather in Tiananmen Square to commemorate Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang.
• May 13 » Large groups of students occupy Tiananmen Square and begin a hunger strike.
• June 16 » Revolutions of 1989: Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian prime minister, is reburied in Budapest following the collapse of Communism in Hungary.
• June 28 » On the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo, Slobodan Milošević delivers the Gazimestan speech at the site of the historic battle.
• November 22 » In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President René Moawad, killing him.

The temperature on January 5, 1989 was between 2.9 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 7.2 mm of rain during 6.4 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (18%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.