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• Gesina Yvonne Brunnekreef, almelo
• Prinses Maria Laura van Oostenrijk-Este
• Jeffrey Randy Blokker, Anna Paulowna († 2011)
• Kevin Johannes Bouwmeester, Apeldoorn († 1988)

• Camiel Albert Victor (94), Roeselare
• Adrianus Henricus Josephus van Doremalen (61), Tilburg
• Arie Klootwijk (87), Ridderkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Agnes Ann Poppell (74), Brunswick, Glynn, Georgia, Verenigde Staten
• Bernice Olthof (69), S Aun City, AZ
• Antonius Johannes van Amsterdam (98), Alkemade
• Bronne Meijering* (57), Musselkanaal, Groningen, Nederland
• Camillus Albertus Victor (94), Roeselare,8800,West-Vlaanderen,België
• Aristide, Marcel Toussaint (67), Bourges, Cher, Centre-Val De Loire, France
• Antonia Cornelia Helsloot (85), Hillegom

• 1986 » Cassie Ventura, American singer, dancer, actress and model
• 1986 » Colin Kazim-Richards, Turkish footballer
• 1986 » Vladislav Gussev, Estonian footballer
• 1987 » Juan Joseph, American football player and coach († 2014)
• 1988 » Danielle Savre, American actress
• 1988 » Elvis Andrus, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1988 » Evan Ross, American actor
• 1988 » Lars Stindl, German football player
• 1988 » Wayne Simmonds, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 » James Harden, American basketball player

• 1981 » Roger Nash Baldwin, American trade union leader, co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union (b. 1884)
• 1986 » Ted Knight, American actor (b. 1923)
• 1987 » Georg Wittig, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1987 » John Goddard, Barbadian-English cricketer and manager (b. 1919)
• 1988 » Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer-songwriter (b. 1957)
• 1989 » Irving Stone, American author (b. 1903)
• 1990 » Tang Chang, Thai artist (b. 1934)
• 1991 » Mildred Albert, American fashion commentator, TV and radio personality, and fashion show producer (b. 1905)
• 1992 » Bob de Moor, Belgian author and illustrator (b. 1925)
• 1993 » Reima Pietilä, Finnish architect, co-designed the Kaleva Church (b. 1923)

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. Nick
16. Pieter

1. Maria
2. Jessica
3. Linda
4. Laura
5. Sarah
6. Anne
7. Johanna
8. Sandra
9. Samantha
10. Sanne
11. Kim
12. Anna
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.
• April 14 » In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
• June 1 » The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty comes into effect.
• August 8 » The first night baseball game in the history of Chicago's Wrigley Field (game was rained out in the fourth inning).
• August 28 » Ramstein air show disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. Seventy-five are killed and 346 seriously injured.
• September 7 » Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first Afghan in space, returns to Earth after nine days on the Mir space station.
• November 16 » In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan elect populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister of Pakistan.

The temperature on August 26, 1988 was between 10.4 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (68%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.