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• Whitney Brooke Chapman, Jellico, Campbell County, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten († 2003)
• Sharon Steenhuis, Enschede († 2009)

• Angenis Van Beem (81), Wamel, Netherlands
• Afke VELTMAN (87), Dronrijp, FR. NL
• Armand van Bogaert (75), Lier
• Anita Lynette Miller (15), Kimball, Marion, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus Vergouwen (87), Roosendaal en Nispen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Abraham Cornelis Goedegebuure (82), St. Annaland, Zeeland, Nederland
• Bernarda Maria Schmit (90), Hengelo
• Aafje Slot (86), Edam, Gemeente Edam-Volendam
• Arnold Lindaman (88), Allison, Butler County, Iowa
• Adriaan Timmering (75), Den Helder

• 1983 » Carlton Brewster, American football player and coach
• 1984 » Andrei Sidorenkov, Estonian footballer
• 1984 » Brad Keselowski, American race car driver
• 1984 » Peter Vanderkaay, American swimmer
• 1988 » DeMarco Murray, American football player
• 1988 » Mike Posner, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1988 » Nicolás Otamendi, Argentine footballer
• 1990 » Robert Griffin III, American football player
• 1991 » Patrick Herrmann, German footballer
• 1994 » Arman Hall, American sprinter

• 1982 » Victor Jory, Canadian-American actor (b. 1902)
• 1983 » Eubie Blake, American pianist and composer (b. 1887)
• 1984 » Anna Anderson, Polish-American woman, who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1896)
• 1984 » Julio Cortázar, Belgian-Argentinian author and poet (b. 1914)
• 1985 » Nicholas Colasanto, American actor and director (b. 1924)
• 1989 » Thomas Bernhard, Austrian playwright and author (b. 1931)
• 1991 » Roger Patterson, American bass player (b. 1968)
• 1992 » Bep van Klaveren, Dutch boxer (b. 1907)
• 1994 » Donald Judd, American painter and sculptor (b. 1928)
• 1995 » Philip Taylor Kramer, American bass player (b. 1952)

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. 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.
• April 7 » Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors.
• April 21 » Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: In Beijing, around 100,000 students gather in Tiananmen Square to commemorate Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang.
• July 20 » Burma's ruling junta puts opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest.
• October 15 » Eight of those convicted in the Rivonia Trial are released from prison.
• 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.
• December 15 » Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights relating the abolition of capital punishment is adopted.

The temperature on February 12, 1989 was between 4.5 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (8%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.