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• Laurens Okx, Den Haag († 1989)
• Anthony Joseph Loudis, Syracuse, New York (Canada) († 1990)

• Cornelis Arnoldus Maria van den Broek (62), Uden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert Jans RENKEMA (65), Groningen Groningen Netherlands
• A.maria H. Sijstremans (81)
• Cyriel Tant (74), Ieper
• Dirkje Buijs (84), Hamont-Achel (België)
• Douwe Hendrik van Bommel (73), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arij Smoor (45), IJmuiden
• Alida de Roos (89), Amsterdam
• Christina Adriana Anthonia van Loenen (64), Berkel en Roderijs, Nederland
• Dirkje Buijs (84), Hamont-Achel

• 1987 » Dann Hume, New Zealand singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer
• 1987 » Leonel Suárez, Cuban decathlete
• 1988 » Chanel West Coast, Rapper-songwriter and model
• 1988 » Gabriel Ferrari, American soccer player
• 1988 » Mushfiqur Rahim, Bangladeshi cricketer
• 1988 » Simona de Silvestro, Swiss racing driver
• 1989 » Astrid Besser, Italian tennis player
• 1989 » Daniel Sturridge, English footballer
• 1989 » Jefferson Montero, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1990 » Stanislav Tecl, Czech footballer

• 1983 » Henry M. Jackson, American lawyer and politician (b. 1912)
• 1984 » Madeleine de Bourbon-Busset, Duchess of Parma (b. 1898)
• 1985 » Stefan Bellof, German racing driver (b. 1957)
• 1986 » Murray Hamilton, American actor (b. 1923)
• 1988 » Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1989 » A. Bartlett Giamatti, American businessman and academic (b. 1938)
• 1989 » Kazimierz Deyna, Polish footballer (b. 1947)
• 1989 » Tadeusz Sendzimir, Polish-American engineer (b. 1894)
• 1990 » Edwin O. Reischauer, American scholar and diplomat (b. 1910)
• 1991 » Otl Aicher, German graphic designer and typographer (b. 1922)

• 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 10 » Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
• February 14 » Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal disaster.
• September 4 » In Leipzig, East Germany, the first of weekly demonstration for the legalisation of opposition groups and democratic reforms takes place.
• November 7 » David Dinkins becomes the first African American to be elected Mayor of New York City.
• December 16 » U.S. Appeals Court Judge Robert Smith Vance is assassinated by a mail bomb sent by Walter Leroy Moody, Jr.
• December 29 » The Nikkei 225 for the Tokyo Stock Exchange hits its all-time intra-day high of 38,957.44 and closing high at 38,915.87, serving as the apex of the Japanese asset price bubble.

The temperature on September 1, 1989 was between 8.3 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (69%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.