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• Patrick Courbois

• Anna Janna Robbemond (82), Dordrecht
• Agnes Catharina Schmedders (95)
• Antoinette Roelofs (88), Venraij
• Anna Janna ROBBEMONT (82)
• Arnoldus Josephus van Gennip (79), Overveen gem. Bloemendaal
• Bertha van der Zanden (71), Lottum
• Antoinette Roelofs (88), Venray
• Catharina Margrita Alida Oosterveen (87)
• * Antoinette Roelofs (88), Venray
• Adrianus Bierhuizen (83), Schiedam

• 1986 » Rudy Gay, American basketball player
• 1988 » Erika Toda, Japanese actress
• 1988 » Jihadi John, Kuwaiti-British member of ISIS († 2015)
• 1988 » Natalie Sandtorv, Norwegian singer-songwriter
• 1989 » Rachel Corsie, Scottish footballer
• 1992 » Alex Elisala, New Zealand-Australian rugby player († 2013)
• 1992 » Chanel Mata'utia, Australian rugby league player
• 1992 » Paige, English wrestler
• 1993 » Ederson Moraes, Brazilian footballer
• 1993 » Sarah Sjöström, Swedish swimmer

• 1987 » Gary Chester, Italian drummer and educator (b. 1924)
• 1987 » Rudolf Hess, German soldier and politician (b. 1894)
• 1987 » Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 1988 » Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1914)
• 1988 » Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Pakistani general and politician, 6th President of Pakistan (b. 1924)
• 1988 » Victoria Shaw, Australian-American actress (b. 1935)
• 1990 » Pearl Bailey, American actress and singer (b. 1918)
• 1993 » Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician and academic (b. 1920)
• 1994 » Jack Sharkey, American boxer and referee (b. 1902)
• 1994 » Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American race car driver and businessman (b. 1901)

1. Thomas
2. Jan
3. Michael
4. Johannes
5. Mark
6. Kevin
7. Tim
8. Jeroen
9. Dennis
10. Nick
11. Rick
12. Alexander
13. Bas
14. Robin
15. Robert
16. Wouter

1. Laura
2. Anne
3. Anna
4. Linda
5. Maria
6. Jessica
7. Charlotte
8. Samantha
9. Sanne
10. Sarah
11. Chantal
12. Johanna
13. Stephanie
14. Kim
15. Michelle
16. Daniëlle

• 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.
• February 11 » Buster Douglas, a 42:1 underdog, knocks out Mike Tyson in ten rounds at Tokyo to win boxing's world Heavyweight title.
• April 24 » STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
• June 19 » The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
• July 22 » Greg LeMond, an American road racing cyclist, wins his third Tour de France after leading the majority of the race. It was LeMond's second consecutive Tour de France victory.
• August 10 » The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
• August 23 » Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.

The temperature on August 17, 1990 was between 10.3 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.