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• Bjørnar Mellingen, Porsgrunn, Telemark, Norway († 2010)
• Bianca Petronella Geertruida Jochems

• Antoon Peter Louis Hubert Thissen (78), Stein,, Limburg, Nederland
• Andreas Arnoldus Tros (85), Bergen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus de Reus (80), Beverwijk
• Arijaantje (Goosje) Groot (95), Hoofddorp, NH, Nederland
• Albertje Lantinga (89)
• Abram Visser (77)
• Anthonius Vervloed (87), Spierdijk
• Alida Catharina Aalders (93), Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Arie van Maastricht (93)
• Adriana Maria Heijnen (80), Stein, Nederland

• 1987 » Alexandre Bilodeau, Canadian skier
• 1988 » Arrelious Benn, American football player
• 1988 » Chantal Jones, American model and actress
• 1988 » Rie Kaneto, Japanese swimmer
• 1989 » Avicii, Swedish electronic musician († 2018)
• 1989 » Gylfi Sigurðsson, Icelandic footballer
• 1990 » Jos Buttler, English cricketer
• 1990 » Matt Barkley, American football player
• 1990 » Musa Nizam, Turkish footballer
• 1990 » Tokelo Rantie, South African footballer

• 1980 » Willard Libby, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
• 1981 » Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
• 1981 » Nisargadatta Maharaj, Indian guru, philosopher, and educator (b. 1897)
• 1981 » Roy Wilkins, American journalist and activist (b. 1901)
• 1983 » Antonin Magne, French cyclist (b. 1904)
• 1985 » John Franklin Enders, American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1990 » Denys Watkins-Pitchford, English author and illustrator (b. 1905)
• 1991 » Alex North, American composer and conductor (b. 1910)
• 1997 » Derek Taylor, English journalist and author (b. 1932)
• 1999 » Moondog, American-German singer-songwriter, drummer, and poet (b. 1916)

1. Thomas
2. Jan
3. Robert
4. Michael
5. Mark
6. Niels
7. Jeroen
8. Patrick
9. Kevin
10. Robin
11. Peter
12. Nick
13. David
14. Sander
15. Johannes
16. Martijn

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.
• May 2 » Cold War: Hungary begins dismantling its border fence with Austria, which allows a number of East Germans to defect.
• June 16 » Revolutions of 1989: Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian prime minister, is reburied in Budapest following the collapse of Communism in Hungary.
• June 24 » Jiang Zemin succeeds Zhao Ziyang to become the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
• August 20 » The pleasure boat Marchioness sinks on the River Thames following a collision. Fifty-one people are killed.
• December 16 » Romanian Revolution: Protests break out in Timișoara, Romania, in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian pastor László Tőkés.
• December 28 » A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, killing 13 people.

The temperature on September 8, 1989 was between 10.4 °C and 23.8 °C and averaged 17.9 °C. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.