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• Vidar Ingwar Constantijn Thijssen, Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• Adriaan Timmer (81)
• Arie de Leeuw Van Weenen (70), 's-Gravenhage
• Annie Klasina van Aken (79), Velp
• Antonia Maria Klarenbeek (78), Utrecht
• Agnes Maria van Waes (79)
• Evelyn Faye van Zanten (42)
• Alexandrina Hubertina Joosten (84), Amsterdam
• Geerd Huberts (73)
• Cornelia Hendrika Markman (84), Alphen aan den Rijn
• Antonius Jacobus Wijers (84), Gorinchem

• 1989 » Dre Kirkpatrick, American football player
• 1989 » Emil Sayfutdinov, Russian motorcycle racer
• 1990 » Mark Swanepoel, South African rugby player
• 1991 » Blas Cantó, Spanish singer
• 1991 » Riho Iida, Japanese model and actress
• 1992 » Joseph Cramarossa, Canadian hockey player
• 1994 » Allie DeBerry, American model and actress
• 1994 » Waqa Blake, Fijian rugby league player
• 1995 » Yuta Nakamoto, Japanese singer and menber of South Korean boyband NCT
• 1996 » Rebecca Tunney, English gymnast

• 1986 » Jackson Scholz, American runner (b. 1897)
• 1989 » Charles J. Pedersen, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 1991 » Sherry Hawco, Canadian gymnast (b. 1964)
• 1993 » Oro, Mexican wrestler (b. 1971)
• 1994 » Wilbert Harrison, American singer and guitarist (b. 1929)
• 1995 » Gorni Kramer, Italian bassist, songwriter, and bandleader (b. 1913)
• 1995 » Wilhelm Freddie, Danish painter and sculptor (b. 1909)
• 1998 » Kenkichi Iwasawa, Japanese mathematician and academic (b. 1917)
• 1999 » Eknath Easwaran, Indian-American author and educator (b. 1910)
• 1999 » Hoyt Axton, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1938)

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

1. Iris
2. Lisa
3. Laura
4. Maria
5. Tessa
6. Melissa
7. Anna
8. Anne
9. Sanne
10. Sophie
11. Eline
12. Jessica
13. Sarah
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.
• March 20 » The Troubles: A Provisional IRA bomb kills two children in Warrington, England. It leads to mass protests in both Britain and Ireland.
• May 24 » Roman Catholic Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo and five other people are assassinated in a shootout at Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Guadalajara International Airport in Mexico.
• June 12 » An election takes place in Nigeria and is won by Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola. Its results are later annulled by the military Government of Ibrahim Babangida.
• November 11 » A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
• December 10 » The last shift leaves Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland. The closure of the 156-year-old pit marks the end of the old County Durham coalfield, which had been in operation since the Middle Ages.

The temperature on October 26, 1993 was between 7.8 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (5%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.