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• Pieter Jacobus Stiebolt, Rotterdam

• Alfred Leslie Fordham (85), Floreat, West Aust, Australia
• Cheryl Edmay Sarens (30), Almelo
• Albertus Dijkshoorn (81), Rotterdam
• Aaltje Rook (81), Gemeente Kampen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Caroline Baker (84), Glen Innes, New South Wales, Australia
• Bernardus Antonius Vos (83), Rotterdam
• Bertha Maria Veronica Oosterbaan (77), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Charles William Rutherford (61), Charlotte, Mecklenburg, North Carolina
• Cornelia Alberta Peek (78), Rosmalen
• B. H. Titus (87), Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States of America

• 1988 » Riki Christodoulou, English race car driver
• 1989 » Alisa Kleybanova, Russian tennis player
• 1989 » Anthony Randolph, American basketball player
• 1989 » Steven Jahn, German footballer
• 1990 » Damian Lillard, American basketball player
• 1990 » Tyler Young, American racing driver
• 1990 » Zach Bogosian, American ice hockey player
• 1991 » Danilo, Brazilian footballer
• 1991 » Derrick Favors, American basketball player
• 1991 » Evgeny Tishchenko, Russian boxer

• 1982 » Bill Justis, American saxophonist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1926)
• 1986 » Billy Haughton, American harness racer and trainer (b. 1923)
• 1988 » Eleanor Estes, American librarian, author, and illustrator (b. 1906)
• 1989 » Laurie Cunningham, English footballer (b. 1956)
• 1990 » Margaret Lockwood, English actress (b. 1916)
• 1990 » Omar Abu Risha, Syrian poet and diplomat, 4th Syrian Ambassador to the United States (b. 1910)
• 1990 » Zaim Topčić, Yugoslav and Bosnian writer (b. 1920)
• 1991 » Bert Convy, American actor, singer, and game show host (b. 1933)
• 1992 » Chingiz Mustafayev, Azerbaijani journalist and author (b. 1960)
• 1992 » Hammer DeRoburt, Nauruan educator and politician, 1st President of Nauru (b. 1922)

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.
• January 20 » George H. W. Bush is inaugurated the 41st President of the United States of America.
• February 24 » United Airlines Flight 811, bound for New Zealand from Honolulu, rips open during flight, blowing nine passengers out of the business-class section.
• May 2 » Cold War: Hungary begins dismantling its border fence with Austria, which allows a number of East Germans to defect.
• November 10 » Longtime Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov is removed from office and replaced by Petar Mladenov.
• November 20 » Velvet Revolution: The number of protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million.
• 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.

The temperature on July 15, 1989 was between 9.4 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.