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• Michael David Marvin, Pomona, Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten († 2017)
• Petra Everaert, Jette
• Gian Paolo De Clercq († 2014)

• Adrianus Wilhelmus Overmeijer (86), Australië
• Elbert Kamphorst (72), Barneveld
• Allegonda Wilhelmina van Erp (72), Geffen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• * Jan Willem Meenhorst (83), Zeist
• Apolônia Hoepers (59)
• Damuel Jan Gerritsz Brouwer (74), Budel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alexandra Maria Ludwina Josephine Huberta van Vietinghoff-Schell (75), Mettlach, Saarland
• Albert Paasman (78), De Wijk (Diever)
• Daniel van der Meulen (95), Eerbeek/Gorssel, Gld, Nederland
• Cornelis van der Reijden (73), Leiden

• 1985 » Cameron Price, Australian news journalist
• 1985 » Eleanor Catton, Canadian-New Zealand author
• 1985 » Eric Adjetey Anang, Ghanaian sculptor and carpenter
• 1985 » Jonathan Soriano, Spanish footballer
• 1987 » Gürhan Gürsoy, Turkish footballer
• 1987 » Matthew Connolly, English footballer
• 1988 » Karl Alzner, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 » Pia Wurtzbach, Filipina actress, model, and Miss Universe 2015 titleholder
• 1991 » Maximiliano Uggè, Italian footballer
• 1991 » Oriol Romeu, Spanish footballer

• 1980 » Theodor Luts, Estonian-Brazilian director, producer, and cinematographer (b. 1896)
• 1981 » Patsy Kelly, American actress and dancer (b. 1910)
• 1982 » Józef Nawrot, Polish-English footballer (b. 1906)
• 1982 » Sarah Churchill, English actress (b. 1914)
• 1984 » Neil Hamilton, American actor (b. 1899)
• 1991 » Dr. Seuss, American children's book writer, poet, and illustrator (b. 1904)
• 1993 » Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1913)
• 1993 » Ian Stuart Donaldson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1957)
• 1994 » Barry Bishop, American mountaineer, photographer, and scholar (b. 1932)
• 1996 » Zeki Müren, Turkish singer-songwriter (b. 1931)

• 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.
• April 26 » The deadliest known tornado strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.
• 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.
• August 19 » Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be the first non-communist prime minister in 42 years.
• 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.
• September 14 » The Standard Gravure shooting where Joseph T. Wesbecker, a 47-year old pressman, killed 8 people and injured 12 people at his former workplace, Standard Gravure, before committing suicide.
• December 29 » Czech writer, philosopher and dissident Václav Havel is elected the first post-communist President of Czechoslovakia.

The temperature on September 24, 1989 was between 11.0 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.