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• Dakota James Myers, Iowa City-Iowa (USA) († 2003)
• Wouter Overvoorde, Dordrecht († 1993)

• Adelbert Bart van der Veer (0)
• Arnoldus Godefridus Gerardus (Nol) van Kerkhoff (42), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Delphina Maria De Sadeleer (85), Aalst
• Adriaanus Roosendaal (61), Hilversum, Nederland
• Agnes Van Aertselaer (43), Antwerpen
• Adriana Anna Maria Romeijn (95), Lisse
• Arie Lemmerman (73)
• Antje Buijs (90)
• Aletta de Jong (89), Amersfoort(UT)
• Adriana E (Sjaan of Jeanne) Keil (80)

• 1989 » Dinesh Patel, Indian baseball player
• 1989 » Lars Eller, Danish ice hockey player
• 1989 » Liam Bridcutt, English footballer
• 1990 » Kemba Walker, American basketball player
• 1991 » Anamaria Tămârjan, Romanian gymnast
• 1991 » Ethan Gage, Canadian soccer player
• 1991 » Valentijn Lietmeijer, Dutch basketball player
• 1992 » Kevin Hayes, American ice hockey player
• 1993 » Pat Cummins, Australian cricketer
• 1996 » 6ix9ine, American rapper

• 1990 » Luigi Nono, Italian composer and educator (b. 1924)
• 1991 » Jean Langlais, French pianist and composer (b. 1907)
• 1991 » Rudolf Serkin, Czech-Austrian pianist and educator (b. 1903)
• 1992 » Joyce Ricketts, American baseball player (b. 1933)
• 1993 » Avram Davidson, American soldier and author (b. 1923)
• 1994 » George Peppard, American actor and producer (b. 1928)
• 1995 » Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer (b. 1953)
• 1996 » Beryl Burton, English cyclist (b. 1937)
• 1996 » Larry Levis, American poet, author, and critic (b. 1946)
• 1996 » Luis Miguel Dominguín, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1926)

• 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.
• April 1 » Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority is founded in Los Angeles, California, USA.
• April 11 » Four hundred fifty prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs.
• May 5 » Three eight-year-old boys are murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas, Ultimately leading to the conviction of the West Memphis Three.
• May 24 » Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia.
• August 28 » The Galileo spacecraft discovers a moon, later named Dactyl, around 243 Ida, the first known asteroid moon.
• November 9 » Stari Most, the "old bridge" in the Bosnian city of Mostar, built in 1566, collapses after several days of bombing by Croat forces during the Croat–Bosniak War.

The temperature on May 8, 1993 was between 9.3 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.