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• NAOMI MOSTERD, ARNHEM († 1988)

• Cornelia Christina WALDHOBER (78)
• Earl Harris Trumpore (77), Trenton (Mercer County) (New Jersey)
• Adrianus Schuurmans (62), Nistelrode
• Aubrey Lee Snell (90), Euless, Tarrant, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Aaltje Steenwijk (84)
• Anna Louisa Elisabeth Peijpers (95), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arend van der Weide (91), Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland
• Eric UYTBORCK (78), Uccle, 1180, Région Bruxelles-Capitale, Belgique
• Blanche Bonnie Marie Neff (100), Baltimore, Fairfield Co.Ohio
• Albertine Rosalie Alexandrine Marie HEULOT (96), Vitré, 35360, Ille et Vilaine, Bretagne, France

• 1986 » Billy Butler, American baseball player
• 1986 » Maurice Edu, American soccer player
• 1987 » Brett Deledio, Australian footballer
• 1987 » Danny Guthrie, English footballer
• 1987 » Ivan Tričkovski, Macedonian footballer
• 1987 » Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, English model and actress
• 1987 » Samantha Jade, Australian singer-songwriter and actress
• 1988 » Alexander Hauck, South African-German rugby player
• 1988 » Andre Frolov, Estonian footballer
• 1989 » Jessica Jung, Korean American singer, songwriter, actress, and fashion designer

• 1974 » Marcel Pagnol, French author, playwright, and director (b. 1895)
• 1986 » Marcel Dassault, French businessman, founded Dassault Aviation (b. 1892)
• 1988 » Oktay Rıfat Horozcu, Turkish poet and playwright (b. 1914)
• 1988 » Pierre Desproges, French journalist and actor (b. 1939)
• 1995 » Arturo Frondizi, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Argentina (b. 1908)
• 1996 » Bernard Edwards, American bass player and producer (b. 1952)
• 1996 » Brook Berringer, American football player (b. 1973)
• 1997 » Edward Barker, English cartoonist (b. 1950)
• 1998 » Terry Sanford, American lieutenant and politician, 65th Governor of North Carolina (b. 1917)
• 2002 » Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian ethnographer and explorer (b. 1914)

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.
• January 1 » The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America comes into existence, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.
• May 4 » The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of Space Shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.
• May 16 » A report by the Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
• June 19 » Pope John Paul II canonizes 117 Vietnamese Martyrs.
• July 3 » United States Navy warship USSVincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
• September 7 » Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first Afghan in space, returns to Earth after nine days on the Mir space station.

The temperature on April 18, 1988 was between 5.3 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.