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• Jessica Anne-Maria Price, Newcastle,a5, Australië († 2001)
• Maria Caitlin Beekelaar, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland

• Emma Carolina De Schutter (68), Kapelle-op-den-Bos, Vlaams-Brabant
• André Jean DESCHEEMAEKER (69), Lendelede
• Adrianus Johannes Cornelis van der Ven (51), Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Dieuwerda Woestenburg (75), 's-Gravenhage
• Edna Ashburn * Eberwine [KsBu] (90), Suffolk ql, Suffolk City ql, Virginia ql
• Anna Catherina Dieuwerda Woestenburg (75), 's-Gravenhage
• Anne Niemeijer (89), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Catharina van Opdorp (91), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• van Uffelen (47)
• Alice Maud Wills (94)

• 1985 » Drew Neitzel, American basketball player
• 1985 » Jarrad Hickey, Australian rugby league player
• 1986 » Matt Helders, English drummer
• 1987 » Asami Konno, Japanese singer
• 1987 » David Schlemko, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1987 » Mark Reynolds, Scottish footballer
• 1987 » Michael Maidens, English footballer († 2007)
• 1988 » Eino Puri, Estonian footballer
• 1988 » Sander Puri, Estonian footballer
• 1989 » Earl Thomas, American football player

• 1978 » Mort Weisinger, American journalist and author (b. 1915)
• 1986 » Haldun Taner, Turkish playwright and author (b. 1915)
• 1987 » Colin Blakely, Northern Irish actor (b. 1930)
• 1987 » Paul Popham, American soldier and activist, co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis (b. 1941)
• 1990 » Sam Tambimuttu, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (b. 1932)
• 1994 » Clement Greenberg, American art critic (b. 1909)
• 1995 » Ray McKinley, American drummer, singer, and bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra) (b. 1910)
• 1998 » Allan McLeod Cormack, South African-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1924)
• 1998 » Eddie Rabbitt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941)
• 2000 » Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American captain, actor, and producer (b. 1909)

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

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 14 » Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal disaster.
• June 7 » Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname because of pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard.
• July 20 » Burma's ruling junta puts opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest.
• August 16 » A solar particle event affects computers at the Toronto Stock Exchange, forcing a halt to trading.
• October 15 » Eight of those convicted in the Rivonia Trial are released from prison.
• December 22 » Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany.

The temperature on May 7, 1989 was between 4.9 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.