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• Dennis van Berkel, Veldhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1994)

• Adriana Johanna Sprangemeijer (79), 's-Gravenhage
• Adianus Florus Groeneveld (85), High River, Alberta, Canada
• Andrias Gerardus Maria van Melsen (81), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cornelia van Mourik (95), Dordrecht
• Cornelia van Mourik (95)
• Cyriel Achiel Syoen (90), Nieuwpoort
• Adrianus Floris Groeneveld (85), High River,Alberta,Canada
• Aleida de Weerd (78), Gramsbergen
• Anthonius Joannes Cornelis Maria van Opstal (83), Loon op Zand, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Abraham Johannes Kooistra (74), Ljouwert, Friesland, Nederland

• 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
• 1997 » Bella Thorne, American actress

• 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)
• 2002 » Jacques Richard, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1952)
• 2002 » Phyllis Calvert, English actress (b. 1915)

• 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 28 » Former Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
• October 12 » The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of Venus.
• November 8 » Republican Revolution: On the night of the 1994 United States midterm elections, Republicans make historic electoral gains by securing massive majorities in both houses of congress (54 seats in the House and eight seats in the Senate, additionally). Thus bringing a close to four decades of Democratic domination.
• November 30 » MSAchille Lauro catches fire off the coast of Somalia.
• December 3 » Taiwan held the first full local elections; James Soong elected as the first and only direct elected Governor of Taiwan, Chen Shui-bian became the first direct elected Mayor of Taipei, Wu Den-yih became the first directed Mayor of Kaohsiung.
• December 3 » The PlayStation developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment was released in Japan

The temperature on October 8, 1994 was between 1.8 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (35%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.