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• Patrick Hardeman, Wageningen († 2008)
• Sander van den Berg
• Mirjam de HAAN, Hoofddorp, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• Ben Mulder (73), Bowdle, South Dakota, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Maria Brouwers (69)
• Aaltje VAN DER MOLEN (86), Broek op Langedijk, NH, Nederland
• Adrianus Gerardus Norbertus Elias (80), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Annegina Cornelia van Waggendorff van Rijn (74), Anna Paulowna, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Derk Haan (75), Deventer
• Aaltje van der Molen (86)
• Dirkje Blankestijn (59), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Elisabeth Nagtegaal (87), Utrecht
• Anje (Anne) Evenhouse (86), Modesto California, Verenigde Staten

• 1988 » Anthony Castonzo, American football player
• 1988 » Vasilios Koutsianikoulis, Greek footballer
• 1988 » Willian, Brazilian footballer
• 1989 » Jason Heyward, American baseball player
• 1989 » Kento Ono, Japanese actor and model
• 1989 » Stefano Okaka, Italian footballer
• 1990 » İshak Doğan, Turkish footballer
• 1990 » Brice Roger, French skier
• 1990 » Sarah McBride, American LGBT activist
• 1990 » Stuart McInally, Scottish rugby player

• 1979 » Walter O'Malley, American businessman (b. 1903)
• 1980 » Jacqueline Cochran, American pilot (b. 1906)
• 1981 » Max Hoffman, Austrian-born car importer and businessman (b. 1904)
• 1985 » Clive Churchill, Australian rugby league player and coach (b. 1927)
• 1988 » Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer and poet (b. 1905)
• 1988 » M. Carl Holman, American author, educator, poet, and playwright (b. 1919)
• 1990 » Joe Mercer, English footballer and manager (b. 1914)
• 1992 » Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Iranian singer and actor (b. 1938)
• 1995 » Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942)
• 1996 » Frank Whittle, English soldier and engineer, invented the jet engine (b. 1907)

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

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

• 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.
• September 4 » In Leipzig, East Germany, the first of weekly demonstration for the legalisation of opposition groups and democratic reforms takes place.
• October 1 » Denmark introduces the world's first legal same-sex registered partnerships.
• October 19 » The convictions of the Guildford Four are quashed by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, after they had spent 15 years in prison.
• November 10 » Longtime Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov is removed from office and replaced by Petar Mladenov.
• December 20 » The United States invasion of Panama deposes Manuel Noriega.
• December 29 » Czech writer, philosopher and dissident Václav Havel is elected the first post-communist President of Czechoslovakia.

The temperature on August 9, 1989 was between 10.9 °C and 25.1 °C and averaged 18.3 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.