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• Erika Fritz, Tecumseh Canada

• Annigje Johannes Dikken (86), Wanneperveen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Cornelia Elizabeth van Dieren (87)
• Albert Jan Hansman (91), Meppel, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Berdine Greenfield (96), Titonka, Kossuth County, Iowa
• Carolus GRIETENS (89), Meerhout, 2450, Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, België
• Albertus Franciscus Van der Herten (80), Brasschaat, Antwerpen, België
• Barend Wilms (81)
• Anna Helena Cornelia van der Rijken (87), Breda
• Alida wilhelmina Natenstedt (84), Krommenie
• Cornelia Wilhelmina Bos (85), Veenendaal

• 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

• 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)
• 2001 » Hüseyin Hilmi Işık, Turkish scholar and academic (b. 1911)

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 15.3 million citizens.
• April 4 » Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Netscape Communications Corporation under the name Mosaic Communications Corporation.
• May 5 » The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
• September 30 » Ongar railway station, the furthest London Underground from central London, closes.
• October 31 » American Eagle Flight 4184 crashes near Roselawn, Indiana killing all 68 people on board.
• November 9 » The chemical element darmstadtium is discovered.
• December 14 » Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river.

The temperature on October 26, 1994 was between 5.9 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 22.0 mm of rain during 8.3 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (11%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.