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• Kevin Heijnen († 2019)

• Berendina Wybenga (78), -
• Catharina de Graaf (62), Emmeloord
• Buran Farrar (78), Glendale, Maricopa County, Arizona, Verenigde Staten
• Arnolda van Iersel (74), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Berendina Wijbenga (78)
• Aaltje Frens (71), Elspeet
• Berendina Wybenga (78), Buitenpost
• Abramina Johanna Hendrika Knöptels (87), Hilversum
• Cornelis Alphonsus Maria van de Spijker (78), Eindhoven
• Carl David Drcha (63), California

• 1986 » Hayato Fujita, Japanese wrestler
• 1987 » Gain, South Korean singer
• 1987 » Jack Lawless, American drummer
• 1987 » Tito Tebaldi, Italian rugby player
• 1988 » Ayano Ōmoto, Japanese singer and dancer
• 1988 » Ryan Simpkins, Australian rugby league player
• 1988 » Sergei Bobrovsky, Russian ice hockey player
• 1990 » John Tavares, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1990 » Phillip Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1991 » Isaac Cofie, Ghanaian footballer

• 1979 » Ludvík Svoboda, Czech general and politician, 8th President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1895)
• 1984 » Steve Goodman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948)
• 1985 » Helen MacInnes, Scottish-American librarian and author (b. 1907)
• 1987 » Michael Stewart, American playwright and composer (b. 1924)
• 1993 » Erich Hartmann, German soldier and pilot (b. 1922)
• 1994 » Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean physician, academic, and diplomat (b. 1924)
• 1994 » Jule Styne, American composer (b. 1905)
• 1996 » Paul Erdős, Hungarian-Polish mathematician and academic (b. 1913)
• 1996 » Paul Weston, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1912)
• 1996 » Reuben Kamanga, Zambian politician, 1st Vice-President of Zambia (b. 1929)

• 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.
• March 12 » Sir Tim Berners-Lee submits his proposal to CERN for an information management system, which subsequently develops into the world wide web.
• July 5 » Iran–Contra affair: Oliver North is sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in fines and 1,200 hours community service. His convictions are later overturned.
• September 13 » Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.
• October 15 » Eight of those convicted in the Rivonia Trial are released from prison.
• 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 25 » Romanian Revolution: Deposed President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, Elena, are condemned to death and executed after a summary trial.

The temperature on September 20, 1989 was between 8.6 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 10.3 hours of sunshine (83%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.