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• Mike Luit, Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland († 2008)
• Harmina Dijkstra, Warnsveld
• Harmina Dijkstra, Warnsveld
• Patty Hendrickx († 2012)
• Maureen Verdonck, Anderlecht, België

• Egbertus Ernst (66), Zwolle
• Carolus Maria Schrover (69), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelis Zwakman (72), Alkmaar
• Azing Koster (88), Onderdendam, Bedum,, Groningen, Nederland
• Adriana Petronella van Leijden (66), Oegstgeest
• Cornelis Josephus van Asten (82), Udenhout
• Bob Wink (72), Mosman New South Wales Australië
• Cornelis Petrus Maria van der Lans (80)
• Aafke Heins Oosterhagen (95), Franeker, Franekeradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Annigje (Annie) Bruinewoud (66), Ommen

• 1989 » Anthony Rizzo, American baseball player
• 1989 » Hannah Miley, English-Scottish swimmer
• 1989 » Ken Baumann, American actor and author
• 1989 » Prajakta Mali, Indian actress
• 1990 » Aleksandra Szwed, Polish actress and singer
• 1990 » Kane Williamson, New Zealand cricket captain
• 1990 » Parker Kligerman, American race car driver
• 1990 » Vladimír Darida, Czech footballer
• 1991 » Nélson Oliveira, Portuguese footballer
• 1991 » Tyrone Peachey, Australian rugby league player

• 1984 » Ellen Raskin, American author and illustrator (b. 1928)
• 1984 » Richard Deacon, American actor (b. 1921)
• 1985 » Louise Brooks, American actress (b. 1906)
• 1987 » Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician and physicist (b. 1903)
• 1988 » Alan Napier, English actor (b. 1903)
• 1988 » Félix Leclerc, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1914)
• 1991 » James Irwin, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1930)
• 1992 » Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Iranian religious leader and scholar (b. 1899)
• 1996 » Jüri Randviir, Estonian chess player and journalist (b. 1927)
• 1996 » Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)

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 14 » The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth that later become famous as Pale Blue Dot.
• April 9 » An IRA bombing in County Down, Northern Ireland, kills three members of the UDR.
• July 1 » German reunification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.
• November 13 » In Aramoana, New Zealand, David Gray shoots dead 13 people in a massacre before being tracked down and killed by police the next day.
• November 20 » Andrei Chikatilo, one of the Soviet Union's most prolific serial killers, is arrested; he eventually confesses to 56 killings.
• December 11 » Demonstrations by students and workers across Albania begin, which eventually trigger the fall of communism in Albania.

The temperature on August 8, 1990 was between 6.9 °C and 21.9 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.