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• NN Mensen, Schoonebeek, Drenthe, Nederland
• Herman Jr. Mensen, Schoonebeek († 1989)

• Arline Marie Keehley Lucas (68), Orlando, Orange, Florida, Verenigde Staten
• Beatrice {Windram} Pollock (86), Shelton, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States of America
• Charlotte Agnes Van Saksen Altenburg (89), Hemmelmark, Duitsland
• Anna Hermine Franziska Froese (91), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Amade Eugene Hoogerwerf (68), Kerkrade, Nederland
• Aaltje van der Werf (84), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Aartje Polinder (83)
• Anna Maria (Miet) Timmermans (80), Boxtel
• Charles Royen (73), Clermont s/ Berwinne, 4890 (B)
• Basil Eugene Sanches (51)

• 1987 » Luc Bourdon, Canadian ice hockey player († 2008)
• 1987 » Theresa Goh, Singaporean swimmer
• 1988 » Andrea Ranocchia, Italian footballer
• 1988 » Denílson Pereira Neves, Brazilian footballer
• 1988 » Diego Capel, Spanish footballer
• 1988 » Kim Soo-hyun, South Korean actor and singer
• 1988 » Zhang Jike, Chinese table tennis player
• 1989 » Elizabeth Olsen, American actress
• 1990 » Dunamis Lui, Australian-Samoan rugby league player
• 1990 » The Weeknd, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer

• 1984 » M. A. G. Osmani, Bangladeshi general (b. 1918)
• 1990 » Keith Haring, American painter and activist (b. 1958)
• 1991 » Enrique Bermúdez, Nicaraguan lieutenant and engineer (b. 1932)
• 1992 » Angela Carter, English novelist, short story writer (b. 1940)
• 1992 » Herman Wold, Norwegian-Swedish economist and statistician (b. 1908)
• 1992 » Jânio Quadros, Brazilian politician, 22nd President of Brazil (b. 1917)
• 1996 » Brownie McGhee, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1915)
• 1996 » Pat Brown, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Governor of California (b. 1905)
• 1996 » Roberto Aizenberg, Argentinian painter and sculptor (b. 1922)
• 1996 » Roger Bowen, American actor and author (b. 1932)

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.
• February 10 » Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
• August 23 » Singing Revolution: Two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stand on the Vilnius–Tallinn road, holding hands.
• November 7 » Douglas Wilder wins the governor's seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.
• December 16 » Romanian Revolution: Protests break out in Timișoara, Romania, in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian pastor László Tőkés.
• December 17 » Fernando Collor de Mello defeats Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the second round of the Brazilian presidential election, becoming the first democratically elected President in almost 30 years.
• December 29 » Czech writer, philosopher and dissident Václav Havel is elected the first post-communist President of Czechoslovakia.

The temperature on February 16, 1989 was between -1.7 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 3.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.