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• Gerdien Spijker († 2003)
• Nicky Pascal Fokker, Hilversum, Gemeente Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1991)

• Adriana Centijna van den Broek (80), Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Adriana Mathijssen (83), Breda
• Clattaine VanDer Schaaf, Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota (VS)
• Clementina Maria DE BRUYNE (78), Roeselare
• Catharina Maria Theresia van WEERS (58), Den Haag
• Aloysia von Brühl (48), Athens, Greece
• * Josephina Johanna Baars (49)
• Alphonsus Theodorus van de Sande (91), Tilburg
• Catharina Spaans (89), Alkmaar
• Anna Maria Wassili (92), Amsterdam

• 1989 » Astrid Besser, Italian tennis player
• 1989 » Daniel Sturridge, English footballer
• 1989 » Jefferson Montero, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1990 » Stanislav Tecl, Czech footballer
• 1991 » Angélica Kvieczynski, Brazilian gymnast
• 1991 » Rhys Bennett, English footballer
• 1992 » Cristiano Biraghi, Italian footballer
• 1992 » Kirani James, Grenadian sprinter
• 1992 » Woo Hye-lim, South Korean singer-songwriter
• 1993 » Mario Lemina, Gabonese footballer

• 1984 » Madeleine de Bourbon-Busset, Duchess of Parma (b. 1898)
• 1985 » Stefan Bellof, German racing driver (b. 1957)
• 1986 » Murray Hamilton, American actor (b. 1923)
• 1988 » Luis Walter Alvarez, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1989 » A. Bartlett Giamatti, American businessman and academic (b. 1938)
• 1989 » Kazimierz Deyna, Polish footballer (b. 1947)
• 1989 » Tadeusz Sendzimir, Polish-American engineer (b. 1894)
• 1990 » Edwin O. Reischauer, American scholar and diplomat (b. 1910)
• 1991 » Otl Aicher, German graphic designer and typographer (b. 1922)
• 1997 » Zoltán Czibor, Hungarian footballer (b. 1929)

• 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 16 » Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War.
• April 26 » 55 tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado.
• August 16 » Indian Airlines Flight 257, a Boeing 737-200, crashes during approach to Imphal Airport, killing all 69 people on board.
• September 6 » The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
• October 5 » An Indonesian Air Force C-130 crash kills 135 people.
• December 26 » The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union, ending the Cold War.

The temperature on September 1, 1991 was between 12.6 °C and 28.1 °C and averaged 21.2 °C. There was 12.2 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.