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• Joshua-Jurrie (Josh) Milne, Welland Ontario Canada
• Jan Jansen, den Ham
• Florinne Diependaal, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1993)

• Camiel Bogaert (86), Beernem
• Dorothy Agnes Rixon (86), Lymington, Hampshire, England
• Dina Bras (94)
• Blanche Girard (99), St-Ignace, Coteau-du-Lac
• adriana van ROON (96), poortugaal
• Anna Catherine MacDonald (74), Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States
• Edgar Walter Blakeney (76), Nyack-New York (USA)
• Derk Dokter (85), Zwartemeer, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Clara Marie Bitler (65), Orange Co.California
• Detje Tilma (80), Buitenpost

• 1990 » Rachel Klamer, Zimbabwean-Dutch triathlete
• 1991 » Jordan McLean, Australian rugby league player
• 1992 » Lidziya Marozava, Belarusian tennis player
• 1992 » Maria João Koehler, Portuguese tennis player
• 1993 » Barbara Palvin, Hungarian model and actress
• 1993 » Darrell Wallace, Jr., American race car driver
• 1993 » Garbiñe Muguruza, Spanish tennis player
• 1993 » Molly Quinn, American actress and producer
• 1996 » Sara Sorribes Tormo, Spanish tennis player
• 1996 » Sara Takanashi, Japanese ski jumper

• 1985 » Gordon Welchman, English-American mathematician and scholar (b. 1906)
• 1985 » Malcolm Ross, American captain, physicist, and balloonist (b. 1919)
• 1987 » Konstantinos Tsatsos, Greek scholar and politician, 2nd President of Greece (b. 1899)
• 1992 » Willy Brandt, German lawyer and politician, 4th Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• 1994 » Oscar M. Ruebhausen, American lawyer (b. 1912)
• 1995 » Christopher Keene, American conductor and educator (b. 1946)
• 1997 » Bertrand Goldberg, American architect, designed the Marina City Building (b. 1913)
• 1999 » John McLendon, American basketball player and coach (b. 1915)
• 2000 » Charlotte Lamb, English author (b. 1937)
• 2001 » Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1917)

1. Jeroen
2. Thomas
3. Michael
4. Tim
5. Jan
6. Kevin
7. Bart
8. Robin
9. Sander
10. Dennis
11. Mark
12. Johannes
13. Rick
14. Jacob
15. Ruben
16. Hendrik

1. Iris
2. Lisa
3. Laura
4. Maria
5. Tessa
6. Anne
7. Melissa
8. Anna
9. Sanne
10. Sophie
11. Eline
12. Sarah
13. Jessica
14. Michelle
15. Kelly
16. Amanda

• 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 15.2 million citizens.
• January 13 » The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) is signed.
• January 14 » In Poland's worst peacetime maritime disaster, ferry MS Jan Heweliusz sinks off the coast of Rügen, drowning 55 passengers and crew; nine crew-members are saved.
• March 27 » Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.
• May 1 » Dingiri Banda Wijetunga became president of Sri Lanka automatically after killing of R Premadasa in LTTE bomb explosion.
• August 9 » The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership.
• December 30 » Israel establishes diplomatic relations with Vatican City and also upgrades to full diplomatic relations with Ireland.

The temperature on October 8, 1993 was between 10.2 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (31%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.