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• Anne Margot Stoll, Zoetermeer, prov. Zuid Holland
• Carmen Vandenbooren, Vijlen († 1991)

• Antonius Gerhardus Johann olthoff (48), Neede
• aldegonda gertruda (gonda) rutten (86), helden-panningen
• Anneta Clasina Carmiggelt (94)
• Arie Willemsz Huizinga (74), Texel
• Arie Wzn. Huizinga (74), Den Burg
• Antonius Gerardus DONKER (59), Laren,Noord-Hollamd
• Antonius Gerardus Donker (59), Laren, NHO, Nederland
• Aletta van der Velde (73)
• Aldegonda Wilhelmina Vaessen (89), Venlo
• Anne Catherine Pierre Eugenie Vanden Eynde (92), Leuven,Louvain,Vlaams-Brabant, Vlaanderen,Belgi√´

• 1985 » Dwight Howard, American basketball player
• 1985 » Meagan Duhamel, Canadian figure skater
• 1985 » Oleksiy Pecherov, Ukrainian basketball player
• 1986 » Amir Khan, English boxer
• 1986 » Enzo Amore, American wrestler and rapper
• 1986 » Kate Voegele, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
• 1986 » Sam Tagataese, New Zealand-Samoan rugby league player
• 1989 » Drew Doughty, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 » Jesse Sene-Lefao, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1992 » Yui Yokoyama - Japanese idol, model, and actress

• 1983 » Keith Holyoake, New Zealand farmer and politician, 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1904)
• 1983 » Slim Pickens, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1984 » Luther Adler, American actor (b. 1903)
• 1984 » Razzle, English drummer (Hanoi Rocks) (b. 1960)
• 1984 » Robert Jay Mathews, American militant leader, founded The Order (b. 1953)
• 1984 » Semih Sancar, Turkish general (b. 1911)
• 1991 » Buck Clayton, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1911)
• 1992 » William Shawn, American journalist (b. 1917)
• 1993 » Yevgeny Minayev, Russian weightlifter (b. 1933)
• 1994 » Antônio Carlos Jobim, Brazilian singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1927)

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

1. Kim
2. Maria
3. Laura
4. Linda
5. Sanne
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.
• January 29 » Cold War: Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making it the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so.
• February 1 » The Western Australian towns of Kalgoorlie and Boulder amalgamate to form the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
• July 17 » First flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber.
• August 22 » Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.
• November 9 » Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall: East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to travel to West Berlin.
• November 16 » El Salvadoran army troops kills six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University.

The temperature on December 8, 1989 was between 2.3 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.