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• Zoë Luttik, Ostende († 1990)
• Saskia van Haren, Hoogvliet
• Amarins de Vries

• Andries Hendrik van der Sloot (82), Leusden
• Barthelomeus Johannes (Bart) Beukers (88), Wateringen, Z-H, Nederland
• Catharina Barbara Jacoba Henri Smulders (82)
• Bertram Lewis Pope (79), Lapeer, Lapeer, Michigan
• Cornelis Jacobus van der Velden (91), Delft
• Carl Nieman (81), Waverly Municipal Hospital, Waverly, Bremer County, Iowa
• Anna Maria Joanna Josepha Tuerlings (80), Tilburg
• Arendje STELDER (58), Amsterdam,Noord Holland,Nederland
• Antonia Catharina Griffioen (82)
• Aart Jan Bronkhorst (63), Uddel

• 1989 » David Boudia, American diver
• 1989 » Elīna Babkina, Latvian basketball player
• 1989 » Taja Mohorčič, Slovenian tennis player
• 1990 » Jan Veselý, Czech basketball player
• 1990 » Kim Tae-ri, South Korean actress
• 1991 » Batuhan Karadeniz, Turkish footballer
• 1991 » Morgan Ciprès, French figure skater
• 1991 » Sigrid Agren, French-Swedish model
• 1992 » Joe Keery, American actor
• 1992 » Laura Kenny, English cyclist

• 1982 » Ville Ritola, Finnish runner (b. 1896)
• 1983 » Erol Güngör, Turkish sociologist, psychologist, and academic (b. 1938)
• 1983 » Rolf Stommelen, German race car driver (b. 1943)
• 1984 » Rafael Pérez y Pérez, Spanish author (b. 1891)
• 1993 » Oliver Tambo, South African lawyer and activist (b. 1917)
• 1993 » Tran Duc Thao, Vietnamese philosopher and theorist (b. 1917)
• 1995 » Lodewijk Bruckman, Dutch painter (b. 1903)
• 1997 » Allan Francovich, American director and producer (b. 1941)
• 1997 » Eugene Stoner, American engineer, designed the AR-15 rifle (b. 1922)
• 1997 » Pat Paulsen, American comedian and activist (b. 1927)

• 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.
• April 25 » Violeta Chamorro takes office as the President of Nicaragua, the first woman to hold the position.
• May 1 » The former Philippine Episcopal Church (supervised by the Episcopal Church of the United States of America) is granted full autonomy and raised to the status of an Autocephalous Anglican Province and renamed the Episcopal Church in the Philippines.
• June 20 » The 7.4 M_w  Manjil–Rudbar earthquake affects northern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 35,000–50,000, and injuring 60,000–105,000.
• September 2 » Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.
• September 5 » Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers slaughter 158 civilians.
• November 15 » Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38.

The temperature on April 24, 1990 was between 8.0 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 10.6 hours of sunshine (73%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.