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• Brecht Segaert, Assebroek († 1994)
• Dirkje Cornelia Hoekstra, Katwijk († 1991)
• Travis Joel Koster, Westlock Canada

• Augusta Seys (93), Genval, Rixensart, Waals-Brabant, België
• Cornelis Minderman (50), Vlaardingen
• Albertus van Overbeek (75)
• Adriana Johanna de Jong (69), Helmond,Noord-Brabant,Nederland
• Alma Elsje Bueno Bibaz (88), Amsterdam
• Adrianus Marinus van Osch (61), Berlicum, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia den Hartog (85)
• Augusta Seys (93), Genval
• Anita Margaretha van Motman (78)
• Cornelia den Hartog (85)

• 1987 » Nick Foligno, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1988 » Cole Aldrich, American basketball player
• 1988 » Jack Riewoldt, Australian footballer
• 1988 » Lizzy Yarnold, British skeleton racer
• 1988 » Sébastien Buemi, Swiss race car driver
• 1989 » Josh Hodgson, English rugby league player
• 1989 » Warren Weir, Jamaican sprinter
• 1990 » JID, American rapper
• 1993 » Mercedes Arn-Horn, Canadian musician (Courage My Love)
• 1993 » Nadine Lustre, Filipino actress and singer

• 1985 » Nikos Engonopoulos, Greek painter and poet (b. 1907)
• 1986 » Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
• 1988 » Alfred Pellan, Canadian painter and academic (b. 1906)
• 1988 » John Houseman, Romanian-born American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1902)
• 1991 » Joseph Papp, American stage director and producer (b. 1921)
• 1992 » Gary Rippingale, English ice hockey player (b. 1974)
• 1993 » Federico Fellini, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1920)
• 1993 » River Phoenix, American actor and singer (b. 1970)
• 1995 » Rosalind Cash, American actress and singer (b. 1938)
• 1996 » Marcel Carné, French director and screenwriter (b. 1906)

• 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 15.0 million citizens.
• January 17 » Crown prince Harald V of Norway becomes King Harald V, following the death of his father, King Olav V.
• May 21 » Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end.
• June 27 » Slovenia, after declaring independence two days before is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft starting the Ten-Day War.
• August 27 » The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
• October 15 » The "Oh-My-God particle", an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray measured at 40,000,000 times that of the highest energy protons produced in a particle accelerator is observed at the University of Utah HiRes observatory in Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.
• December 25 » Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as President of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraine's referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union.

The temperature on October 31, 1991 was between 4.7 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (16%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.