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• Abraham Sytse Alkema, Marrum
• Martijn Hendrikx († 1988)
• Ilonka Meijer, Zijpe, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• Aart Jansz Kuijer (76), Baarn, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriana Wilhelmina van Lissum (76), Tilburg
• Betje Bos (81)
• Adrianus Paulus Reniers (86), Schiedam
• Anna Euphemia ten Hagen (63), Neede, Rietmolen
• Alec Eugene Coleman (81), Rye Harbour
• Adrianus Cornelis VAN DEN BURG (72), noordwijkerhout, Nederland
• Arnold Hendrikx (71), Koningsbosch, Netherlands
• Aaltje Bima (89), Vlagtwedde, Groningen, Netherlands
• Adrianus Cornelis van den Burg (72), Noordwijkerhout

• 1987 » Iago Aspas, Spanish footballer
• 1987 » Karen Carney, English women's football winger
• 1987 » Lee Wallace, Scottish footballer
• 1987 » Sébastien Pocognoli, Belgian footballer
• 1987 » Taapsee Pannu, Indian Actress.
• 1988 » Bodene Thompson, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1988 » Mustafa Abdellaoue, Norwegian footballer
• 1988 » Patryk Małecki, Polish footballer
• 1989 » Madison Bumgarner, American baseball player
• 1989 » Tiffany Hwang, Korean American singer, songwriter, and actress

• 1977 » Francis Gary Powers, American captain and pilot (b. 1929)
• 1980 » Patrick Depailler, French race car driver (b. 1944)
• 1980 » Strother Martin, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1981 » Paddy Chayefsky, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1923)
• 1982 » T. Thirunavukarasu, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (b. 1933)
• 1989 » John Ogdon, English pianist and composer (b. 1937)
• 1990 » Norbert Elias, German-Dutch sociologist, author, and academic (b. 1897)
• 1996 » Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and surgeon (b. 1929)
• 1996 » Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1998 » Eva Bartok, Hungarian-British actress (b. 1927)

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.
• March 25 » The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
• April 10 » The Ojhri Camp explosion kills or injures more than 1,000 people in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan.
• May 24 » Section 28 of the United Kingdom's Local Government Act 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, is enacted.
• July 3 » United States Navy warship USSVincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
• December 9 » The Michael Hughes Bridge in Sligo, Ireland, is officially opened.

The temperature on August 1, 1988 was between 10.6 °C and 22.1 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (55%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.