About the day » Friday October 14, 1988Calender converter

• Anne Christian Cornelis de Beurs
• Anne Lukina (Anne) Buijert († 2022)

• Andries Hendrik Schram (64), Amsterdam
• "Madeleine" Camille Marie Desmaisières (87), Knokke-Heist, Belgique
• Agnes Maria STEUR (77), Amsterdam (Noord-Holland)
• Alma May Versfeld (76)
• Beryl Joy (Dolly) ? (67)
• de Waard (101), Zwijndrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arthur Preston Gilstrap (43)
• Antonia J.M. Velderman (74)
• Dirk Foppen (67), Harderwijk
• elilsabeth lopes cardozo (76), amsterdam

• 1983 » Betty Heidler, German hammer thrower
• 1984 » Alex Scott, English footballer
• 1984 » LaRon Landry, American football player
• 1985 » Alexandre Sarnes Negrão, Brazilian racing driver
• 1985 » Ivan Pernar, Croatian Member of Parliament
• 1986 » Tom Craddock, English footballer
• 1988 » Glenn Maxwell, Australian cricketer
• 1990 » Jordan Clark, English cricketer
• 1992 » Ahmed Musa, Nigerian footballer
• 1993 » Ashton Agar, Australian cricketer

• 1982 » Louis Rougier, French philosopher from the Vienna Circle (b. 1889)
• 1983 » Willard Price, Canadian-American historian and author (b. 1887)
• 1984 » Martin Ryle, English astronomer and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 1985 » Emil Gilels, Ukrainian-Russian pianist (b. 1916)
• 1986 » Keenan Wynn, American actor (b. 1916)
• 1986 » Takahiko Yamanouchi, Japanese physicist (b. 1902)
• 1990 » Leonard Bernstein, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1918)
• 1997 » Harold Robbins, American author (b. 1915)
• 1998 » Cleveland Amory, American author and activist (b. 1917)
• 1998 » Frankie Yankovic, American accordion player (b. 1916)

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. Jessica
2. Maria
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 » South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with one hundred other clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town.
• April 14 » In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
• July 31 » Thirty-two people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Penang, Malaysia.
• August 1 » A British soldier was killed in the Inglis Barracks bombing in London, England.
• September 13 » Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure).
• December 12 » The Clapham Junction rail crash kills thirty-five and injures hundreds after two collisions of three commuter trains—one of the worst train crashes in the United Kingdom.

The temperature on October 14, 1988 was between 6.3 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (68%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.