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• Jochum Jeroen Dunnewind († 1993)

• Aukje de Vries (90)
• Attje Wiebe's Aardema (76), Netherlands
• Adrienne Petronille Henriette Maria Baijens (85), Wassenaar, Nederland
• Alfons Theodoor Geurts (56), Rome (I)
• Bertha Theodora Zelst van (71), Oisterwijk
• Benjamin Schröder (87), Bennekom,Ede
• Alida Margaretha Jozephina Baars (90), Boxmeer
• Alida Margaretha Josephina Baars (90), Boxmeer, Zuid-Holland, NL
• Amilton Moraes (59), São Roque, São Paulo, Brasil
• Adrienne Petronille Henriëtte Maria (Adriana) Baijens (85), Wassenaar, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1987 » Elliott Shriane, Australian speed skater
• 1987 » Wang Feifei, Chinese singer and actress
• 1987 » Taylor Chorney, American ice hockey player
• 1987 » William Moseley, English actor
• 1988 » Joeri Dequevy, Belgian footballer
• 1988 » Kris Thackray, English footballer
• 1988 » Lizzo, American singer and rapper
• 1988 » Semyon Varlamov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1989 » Lars Bender, German footballer
• 1989 » Sven Bender, German footballer

• 1988 » Fred Bear, American hunter and author (b. 1902)
• 1989 » Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese businessman, founded Panasonic (b. 1894)
• 1992 » Gerard K. O'Neill, American physicist and astronomer (b. 1927)
• 1992 » Olivier Messiaen, French organist and composer (b. 1908)
• 1995 » Katherine DeMille, Canadian-American actress (b. 1911)
• 1995 » Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch author, poet, and playwright (b. 1921)
• 1996 » Gilles Grangier, French director and screenwriter (b. 1911)
• 1996 » William Colby, American diplomat, 10th Director of Central Intelligence (b. 1920)
• 1998 » Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-American anthropologist and author (b. 1925)
• 1998 » John Bassett, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1915)

1. Thomas
2. Jeroen
3. Jan
4. Michael
5. Kevin
6. Robert
7. Mark
8. Johannes
9. Tim
10. Frank
11. Patrick
12. Dennis
13. Bart
14. Daniel
15. Pieter
16. Nick

1. Maria
2. Jessica
3. Linda
4. Laura
5. Sarah
6. Anne
7. Johanna
8. Sandra
9. Sanne
10. Samantha
11. Anna
12. Kim
13. Stephanie
14. Nicole
15. Esther
16. Chantal

• 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 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 14.7 million citizens.
• February 29 » Svend Robinson becomes the first member of the House of Commons of Canada to come out as gay.
• April 28 » Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing is blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane's fuselage rips open in mid-flight.
• May 29 » The U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
• August 20 » The Troubles: Eight British soldiers are killed and 28 wounded when their bus is hit by an IRA roadside bomb in Ballygawley, County Tyrone.
• November 15 » The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
• December 7 » The 6.8 M_s  Armenian earthquake shakes the northern part of the country with a maximum MSK intensity of X (Devastating), killing 25,000–50,000 and injuring 31,000–130,000.

The temperature on April 27, 1988 was between 3.7 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 11.0 hours of sunshine (75%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.