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• Mathieu de Thomas de Labarthe, Caen, Calvados, France († 2007)
• Daisy Kliemert, Ter Aar
• Patrick Christian Huising, IJmuiden, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2011)

• Bernhardine Wools (80), Duisburg (Dld)
• Aaltje Lambertus Grimmius (86), Groningen
• Cornelia Speksnijder (96), Amersfoort, Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anton van Zijtveld (60), Beverwijk
• Blandina Dina Lavrijsen (67)
• Antje Clasina Johanna van Ek (93), Breda
• Anna Maria Blondina Lavrijsen (73), Eindhoven
• Adrianus Hubertus Wilhelmus Gerardus van Eijk (76), Venlo,, Limburg, Nederland
• Antonie Jochems (82), Maartensdijk, Utrecht, Nederland
• Bircha Dayton (83), Russellville, Franklin, Alabama, Verenigde Staten

• 1986 » Sotiris Balafas, Greek footballer
• 1987 » Anaïs Lameche, French-Swedish singer
• 1987 » Nick Driebergen, Dutch swimmer
• 1987 » Nico Hülkenberg, German race car driver
• 1987 » Richard Stearman, English footballer
• 1988 » Hoodie Allen, American rapper
• 1988 » Kirk Cousins, American football player
• 1988 » Veronica Roth, American author
• 1989 » Romeo Miller, American basketball player, rapper, actor
• 1990 » Danny Galbraith, Scottish footballer

• 1977 » Aleksander Kreek, Estonian shot putter and discus thrower (b. 1914)
• 1980 » Otto Frank, German-Swiss businessman, father of Anne Frank (b. 1889)
• 1981 » Jessie Matthews, English actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1907)
• 1982 » August Neo, Estonian wrestler (b. 1908)
• 1986 » Hermione Baddeley, English actress (b. 1906)
• 1993 » Utpal Dutt, Bangladeshi actor, director, and playwright (b. 1929)
• 1994 » Linus Pauling, American chemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• 1995 » Pierre Schaeffer, French composer and musicologist (b. 1910)
• 2000 » Bineshwar Brahma, Indian poet, author, and educator (b. 1948)
• 2000 » Theodore Trautwein, American lawyer and judge (b. 1920)

• 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.
• June 3 » The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.
• June 4 » Ali Khamenei is elected as the new Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran by the Assembly of Experts after the death and funeral of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
• July 26 » A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
• August 19 » Several hundred East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events that began the process of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
• October 19 » The convictions of the Guildford Four are quashed by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, after they had spent 15 years in prison.
• December 20 » The United States invasion of Panama deposes Manuel Noriega.

The temperature on August 19, 1989 was between 11.6 °C and 26.9 °C and averaged 19.5 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (79%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.