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• susanne johanna sibilla (susanne) jacobs, helden-beringe
• Pieter Hendrik Tempelman († 1988)

• Bella Leonora da Costa Gomez (77), Willemstad Curacao (NA)
• Cornelia Steenstra (59), Wellsburg, Grundy County, Iowa
• Anton Joosten (75), Maasbracht
• Aleida Thijsen van Urk (85)
• Allebelle Binkley (67), Montgomery Co.Ohio
• Basilia Josephien Lamberta Cornelia de Bont (81), Geldrop
• Anna Gertrudis Naus (86), Venlo
• "Polly" "Wim" Wilhelmus Fredericus Derksen (71), Beek-Ubbergen
• Bernard S, Ton (72), Porter, Indiana, United States
• Aalt Eibrink (46), Wezep, Oldebroek, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1965 » Kevin Farley, American screenwriter
• 1967 » Russell E. Morris, Professor of Materials Chemistry at the University of St Andrews
• 1971 » Mark Feuerstein, American actor, director, and producer
• 1977 » Kanye West, American rapper, producer, director, and fashion designer
• 1981 » Rachel Held Evans, American Christian author
• 1982 » Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
• 1983 » Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player; winner of six Grand Slam tournament titles.
• 1984 » Javier Mascherano, Argentinian footballer
• 1989 » Timea Bacsinszky, Swiss tennis player
• 1997 » Jelena Ostapenko, Latvian tennis player

• 1976 » Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe, Norwegian zoologist and psychologist (b. 1894)
• 1982 » Satchel Paige, American baseball player and coach (b. 1906)
• 1984 » Gordon Jacob, English composer and academic (b. 1895)
• 1987 » Alexander Iolas, Egyptian-American art collector (b. 1907)
• 1997 » George Turner, Australian author and critic (b. 1916)
• 1997 » Karen Wetterhahn, American chemist and academic (b. 1948)
• 1998 » Maria Reiche, German mathematician and archaeologist (b. 1903)
• 1998 » Sani Abacha, Nigerian general and politician, 10th President of Nigeria (b. 1943)
• 2000 » Frédéric Dard, French author and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 2000 » Jeff MacNelly, American cartoonist (b. 1948)

1. Thomas
2. Jeroen
3. Jan
4. Michael
5. Kevin
6. Robert
7. Mark
8. Johannes
9. Tim
10. Frank
11. Dennis
12. Patrick
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 20 » The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast votes to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia, triggering the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
• April 4 » Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office.
• October 7 » A hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice near Alaska; the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales.
• October 12 » Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down execution-style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.
• November 18 » War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law allowing the death penalty for drug traffickers.
• November 22 » In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.

The temperature on June 8, 1988 was between 9.0 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.