About the day » Wednesday August 16, 1989Calender converter

• Jeroen Tappel, Emmen

• Berendina Geertruida Maria Peterinck (39), Enschede
• Alida Wals (52), Muiden, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Abraham Elisa Schouten (80), Den Haag
• Cornelis Heiden van der (91), Edegem(B)
• Bernardus Hendrikus Farwig (85), Hoogeveen
• Arnold Robert H. Brown (74), Toronto, Canada
• Adriaan van der Neut (70), Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Anna Cornelia Al (84)
• Antônio CORDEIRO SILVA (79), Santana dos Garrotes, Paraiba, Brésil
• Aartje Morren (84), Voorthuizen, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1985 » Cristin Milioti, American actress
• 1986 » Yu Darvish, Japanese baseball player
• 1987 » Carey Price, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1987 » Eri Kitamura, Japanese voice actress and singer.
• 1988 » Ismaïl Aissati, Moroccan footballer
• 1989 » Moussa Sissoko, French footballer
• 1989 » Wang Hao, Chinese race walker
• 1990 » Godfrey Oboabona, Nigerian footballer
• 1991 » José Eduardo de Araújo, Brazilian footballer
• 1992 » Diego Schwartzman, Argentinian tennis player

• 1983 » Earl Averill, American baseball player (b. 1902)
• 1984 » Duško Radović, Serbian children's writer, poet, journalist, aphorist and TV editor (b. 1922)
• 1986 » Jaime Sáenz, Bolivian author and poet (b. 1921)
• 1986 » Ronnie Aird, English cricketer and administrator (b. 1902)
• 1989 » Amanda Blake, American actress (b. 1929)
• 1990 » Pat O'Connor, New Zealand wrestler and trainer (b. 1925)
• 1991 » Luigi Zampa, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1905)
• 1992 » Mark Heard, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1951)
• 1993 » Stewart Granger, English-American actor (b. 1913)
• 1997 » Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Pakistani musician and Qawwali singer (b. 1948)

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.
• January 29 » Cold War: Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making it the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so.
• April 1 » Margaret Thatcher's new local government tax, the Community Charge (commonly known as the "poll tax"), is introduced in Scotland.
• April 27 » The April 27 demonstrations, student-led protests responding to the April 26 Editorial, during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
• May 2 » Cold War: Hungary begins dismantling its border fence with Austria, which allows a number of East Germans to defect.
• June 21 » The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397, that American flag-burning is a form of political protest protected by the First Amendment.
• 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.

The temperature on August 16, 1989 was between 16.9 °C and 24.5 °C and averaged 20.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (27%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.