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• Daniëlle Jonk († 1989)
• Francis Anthony, London, London, England

• Albert Karel Lodewijk Bracke (73), Wetteren
• B√®r Keijsers (66), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Keijsers (66), Eindhoven
• Blake Wyffels (1)
• Anna Maria Johanna van Grieken (75), Eindhoven
• * Johanna Jonkers (90), Helmond
• Caroline Deletta Dunwoodie (93), Liberty, Missouri
• Celeste CATTEAU (85), Godewaersvelde,59270,Nord,Hauts-de-France,France
• Andreas Theodorus Zeh (84), Californië, V.S
• Bart De Roode (57), Krimpen aan de Lek, Netherlands

• 1984 » Pablo Sebastián Álvarez, Argentinian footballer
• 1985 » Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, French tennis player
• 1985 » Luke Mitchell, Australian actor and model
• 1985 » Rooney Mara, American actress
• 1986 » Romain Grosjean, French race car driver
• 1988 » Takahiro Moriuchi, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1989 » Avi Kaplan, singer and songwriter
• 1989 » Paraskevi Papachristou, Greek triple jumper
• 1990 » Jonathan Brown, Welsh footballer
• 1992 » Lachlan Maranta, Australian rugby league footballer

• 1983 » Felix Pappalardi, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (b. 1939)
• 1984 » Claude Provost, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1933)
• 1987 » Cecil Harmsworth King, English publisher (b. 1901)
• 1987 » Dick Shawn, American actor (b. 1923)
• 1988 » Louise Nevelson, Ukrainian-American sculptor and educator (b. 1900)
• 1990 » Ralph Abernathy, American minister and activist (b. 1936)
• 1993 » Turgut Özal, Turkish engineer and politician, 8th president of Turkey (b. 1927)
• 1994 » Roger Wolcott Sperry, American psychologist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• 1995 » Frank E. Resnik, American sergeant and businessman (b. 1928)
• 1996 » Piet Hein, Danish poet and mathematician (b. 1905)

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 3 » After a stroke two weeks previously, South African President P. W. Botha resigns as leader of the National Party, but stays on as president for six more months.
• March 24 » In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (38,000m) of crude oil after running aground.
• April 3 » The US Supreme Court upholds the jurisdictional rights of tribal courts under the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 in Mississippi Choctaw Band v. Holyfield.
• May 12 » The San Bernardino train disaster kills four people. A week later an underground gasoline pipeline explodes killing two more people.
• September 13 » Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.
• November 10 » Longtime Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov is removed from office and replaced by Petar Mladenov.

The temperature on April 17, 1989 was between 3.5 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (61%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.