About the day » Tuesday April 17, 1990Calender converter

• Devin L Drahman, Kenton County, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten († 1991)
• Debora Van Den Bussche, Veurne
• sandy sylvana joan (sandy) hermans, venlo
• Aaron J. RENKEMA († 2008)

• Alida Driehuis (71), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aloïs Raeman (94), Sijsele-Damme
• Cecilia Ruth JONKMAN (84), New Jersey U.S.A
• Alice Emily Rawlins (76)
• Annie Ledeboer (88), Kandiyohi County, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Alida (Alie) Driehuis (71), Utrecht
• Alida (Ali) DRIEHUIS (71), Utrecht
• André Pirson (62)
• Charles LaFayette Graham (78), Newton County, Missisippi
• Alfred Schoots (68)

• 1985 » Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, French tennis player
• 1985 » Luke Mitchell, Australian actor and model
• 1985 » Rooney Mara, American actress
• 1986 » Romain Grosjean, French race car driver
• 1988 » Takahiro Moriuchi, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1989 » Avi Kaplan, singer and songwriter
• 1989 » Paraskevi Papachristou, Greek triple jumper
• 1990 » Jonathan Brown, Welsh footballer
• 1992 » Lachlan Maranta, Australian rugby league footballer
• 1994 » Alanna Goldie, Canadian fencer

• 1983 » Felix Pappalardi, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (b. 1939)
• 1984 » Claude Provost, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1933)
• 1987 » Cecil Harmsworth King, English publisher (b. 1901)
• 1987 » Dick Shawn, American actor (b. 1923)
• 1988 » Louise Nevelson, Ukrainian-American sculptor and educator (b. 1900)
• 1990 » Ralph Abernathy, American minister and activist (b. 1936)
• 1993 » Turgut Özal, Turkish engineer and politician, 8th president of Turkey (b. 1927)
• 1994 » Roger Wolcott Sperry, American psychologist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• 1995 » Frank E. Resnik, American sergeant and businessman (b. 1928)
• 1996 » Piet Hein, Danish poet and mathematician (b. 1905)

• 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.
• January 13 » Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office as Governor of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia.
• March 11 » Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Chile since 1970.
• April 23 » Namibia becomes the 160th member of the United Nations and the 50th member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
• September 29 » The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
• November 15 » The Communist People's Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted.
• December 1 » Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the seabed.

The temperature on April 17, 1990 was between 3.3 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (61%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.