About the day » Wednesday December 5, 1990Calender converter

• Patty Maria de Greef, Gilze en Rijen († 1990)
• Kelly Anna de Greef, Gilze en Rijen († 1990)
• Kevin Van Tuil, Utrecht († 1990)
• Marina-Niesa Schaap († 1994)

• Arline Dorothy Meinders (76), Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa
• Clarence Elmer Mash (72), Jefferson County, Colorado, United States of America
• Catharina VISSERS (96), Noordwijk
• Anna Helena Jaeken (75), Bree, Provincie Limburg, België
• Charles F. Lingenfelter, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
• Anna Cornelisdr van Hameren (82), Alkemade, Kaag en Braassem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Dirk Lammerts Hilarides (79), Pingjum, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Schoolstra (79), Leeuwarden
• Christiaan Ali Top
• Akke Schram (64), Wijckel

• 1986 » James Hinchcliffe, Canadian race car driver
• 1986 » LeGarrette Blount, American football player
• 1987 » Tommy Fraser, English footballer
• 1988 » Joanna Rowsell, English cyclist
• 1989 » Jurrell Casey, American football player
• 1990 » Montee Ball, American football player
• 1991 » Jacopo Sala, Italian footballer
• 1992 » Ilja Antonov, Estonian footballer
• 1992 » Natalie Sourisseau, Canadian field hockey player
• 1993 » Ross Barkley, English footballer

• 1983 » Robert Aldrich, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1918)
• 1984 » Cecil M. Harden, American politician (b. 1894)
• 1986 » Edward Youde, Welsh-Chinese sinologist and diplomat, 26th Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1924)
• 1989 » John Pritchard, English conductor and director (b. 1921)
• 1990 » Alfonso A. Ossorio, Filipino-American painter and sculptor (b. 1916)
• 1994 » Harry Horner, Czech-American director, producer, and production designer (b. 1910)
• 1995 » Charles Evans, English mountaineer, surgeon, and educator (b. 1918)
• 1995 » Clair Cameron Patterson, American scientist (b. 1922)
• 1995 » Gwen Harwood, Australian poet and playwright (b. 1920)
• 1995 » L. B. Cole, American illustrator and publisher (b. 1918)

• 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 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 14.9 million citizens.
• March 2 » Nelson Mandela is elected deputy President of the African National Congress.
• March 11 » Lithuania declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
• April 24 » STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
• May 29 » The Russian parliament elects Boris Yeltsin as president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
• July 21 » Taiwan's military police forces mainland Chinese illegal immigrants into sealed holds of a fishing boat Min Ping Yu No. 5540 for repatriation to Fujian, causing 25 people to die from suffocation.
• December 11 » Demonstrations by students and workers across Albania begin, which eventually trigger the fall of communism in Albania.

The temperature on December 5, 1990 was between -1.2 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.