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• Tjibbe Relyveld, Zevenaar

• Atze Johanneszn. Reidinga (51), Akkrum, Utingeradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Bessie Leona Baker (81)
• Atze Reidinga (51), Akkrum
• christiaan arnoldus (arnold) staaks (71), baarlo
• Anthonius Gijsbertus Maria Keetlaer (7), De Rijp, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis de Konink (87), Voorburg
• Alida W. van der Plas (88), Katwijk
• Adrianus Theodorus Commandeur (80), Asten,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albertus Joannes Jozeph Van Reusel (67), Charleroi, Hainaut, Belgium
• Abel Smilda (71)

• 1988 » Carl Hagelin, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1988 » Jeremy Lin, American basketball player
• 1988 » Olga Govortsova, Belarusian tennis player
• 1989 » Heiko Schwarz, German footballer
• 1989 » Lianne La Havas, British singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist
• 1989 » Trixie Mattel, American drag queen, actor, and country singer
• 1990 » Seth Curry, American basketball player
• 1992 » Nicola Docherty, Scottish footballer
• 1993 » Iván López, Spanish professional footballer
• 1994 » August Ames, Canadian pornographic actress († 2017)

• 1987 » Didier Pironi, French race car and boat driver (b. 1952)
• 1989 » Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese poet and academic (b. 1944)
• 1989 » R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist and author (b. 1927)
• 1990 » David Rose, American pianist and composer (b. 1910)
• 1994 » Zoltán Fábri, Hungarian director and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 1995 » Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-American photographer and journalist (b. 1898)
• 1996 » Margaret Tucker, Australian author and activist (b. 1904)
• 1997 » Eric Gairy, Grenadian educator and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1922)
• 1997 » John Kendrew, English biochemist and crystallographer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
• 1999 » Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (b. 1926)

1. Thomas
2. Jan
3. Jeroen
4. Kevin
5. Patrick
6. Michael
7. Dennis
8. Martijn
9. Mark
10. Tim
11. Cornelis
12. Rick
13. Niels
14. Robin
15. Robert
16. Tom

1. Laura
2. Lisa
3. Anne
4. Joyce
5. Maria
6. Anna
7. Jessica
8. Michelle
9. Amy
10. Stephanie
11. Kim
12. Nicole
13. Melissa
14. Sarah
15. Esther
16. Johanna

• 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 12 » Persian Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of American military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
• January 29 » Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the war, as well as its deadliest, begins.
• April 14 » The Republic of Georgia introduces the post of President after its declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
• April 29 » A cyclone strikes the Chittagong district of southeastern Bangladesh with winds of around 155 miles per hour (249km/h), killing at least 138,000 people and leaving as many as ten million homeless.
• August 24 » Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
• September 6 » The Russian parliament approves the name change of Leningrad back to Saint Petersburg. The change is effective October 1, 1991.

The temperature on August 23, 1991 was between 15.9 °C and 22.5 °C and averaged 18.8 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.