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• Antonius Maria Petrus Kouters, Roosendaal en Nispen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Betty Lou Baumberger (51), Farmington Hills, Oakland, Michigan
• Adrianus Alblas (62), Rotterdam
• Bart VERMEER (37), Utrecht
• Antonio Henrique Folster (70), Santo Amaro da Imperatriz, Santa Catarina, Brasil
• Antonius Wilhelmus Vosters (60), Tilburg
• Brynjulf Kirkerød (87)
• Berneda Belle Figgins (63), Williams County, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Antonie Wouter van der Lusdonk (86), Zevenbergen
• Alida Catharina Hendrika Heijmans (88), Amsterdam
• Aaltje Witting (89), Eelde

• 1987 » Andy Dalton, American football player
• 1987 » Jessica Dubé, Canadian figure skater
• 1987 » Tove Lo, Swedish singer
• 1988 » Florin Gardoș, Romanian footballer
• 1988 » Janoris Jenkins, American football player
• 1988 » Roman Van Uden, New Zealand cyclist
• 1988 » Sam Hutsby, English golfer
• 1989 » Primož Roglič, Slovenian ski jumper and cyclist
• 1990 » Amarna Miller, former Spanish porn actress
• 1990 » Eric Saade, Swedish singer

• 1981 » Georges Brassens, French singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1921)
• 1986 » Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor, singer, and academic (b. 1913)
• 1987 » Woody Herman, American singer, clarinet player, saxophonist, and bandleader (b. 1913)
• 1988 » Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Indian author and activist (b. 1903)
• 1993 » Lipman Bers, Latvian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1914)
• 1994 » Shlomo Goren, Israeli rabbi, general, and scholar (b. 1918)
• 1995 » Terry Southern, American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, (b. 1924)
• 1996 » Eugen Kapp, Estonian composer and educator (b. 1908)
• 1997 » Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos, Greek-American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1947)
• 1997 » Anton LaVey, American occultist, founded the Church of Satan (b. 1930)

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

1. Kim
2. Maria
3. Laura
4. Linda
5. Jessica
6. Sanne
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.
• January 30 » The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan is closed.
• February 6 » The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of the overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe.
• May 4 » Iran–Contra affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges; the convictions are later overturned on appeal.
• May 12 » The San Bernardino train disaster kills four people. A week later an underground gasoline pipeline explodes killing two more people.
• June 24 » Jiang Zemin succeeds Zhao Ziyang to become the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
• July 26 » A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

The temperature on October 29, 1989 was between 9.4 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 7.3 mm of rain during 11.2 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.