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• Sarah Deforche, Izegem, België († 2011)

• Bets Zwartjens (85), Amsterdam
• Adolphina Isabella Haegeman (83), Gent
• Boogaard Hiltsje Ruth (76), Dirksland
• Audra Hale "George" Darnell (80), Floyd County, Indiana, Verenigde Staten
• Adriaan van Ginkel (77)
• Andreas Adrianus Hubertus Alsemgeest (73), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Christine Wilhelmine Röttgers (87), Arnhem
• Alida van der Helm (74), Egmond
• Anna de Ruiter (85), Capelle aan den IJssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Oeges Wiersma (65), Landgraaf Limburg NL

• 1986 » Saori Kimura, Japanese volleyball player
• 1986 » Sotiris Balafas, Greek footballer
• 1987 » Anaïs Lameche, French-Swedish singer
• 1987 » Nick Driebergen, Dutch swimmer
• 1987 » Nico Hülkenberg, German race car driver
• 1987 » Richard Stearman, English footballer
• 1988 » Hoodie Allen, American rapper
• 1988 » Kirk Cousins, American football player
• 1988 » Veronica Roth, American author
• 1989 » Romeo Miller, American basketball player, rapper, actor

• 1976 » Alastair Sim, Scottish-English actor (b. 1900)
• 1977 » Aleksander Kreek, Estonian shot putter and discus thrower (b. 1914)
• 1977 » Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1890)
• 1980 » Otto Frank, German-Swiss businessman, father of Anne Frank (b. 1889)
• 1981 » Jessie Matthews, English actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1907)
• 1982 » August Neo, Estonian wrestler (b. 1908)
• 1986 » Hermione Baddeley, English actress (b. 1906)
• 1993 » Utpal Dutt, Bangladeshi actor, director, and playwright (b. 1929)
• 1994 » Linus Pauling, American chemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• 1995 » Pierre Schaeffer, French composer and musicologist (b. 1910)

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. Anne
6. Johanna
7. Sarah
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.
• February 20 » The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast votes to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia, triggering the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
• April 14 » In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
• 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.
• June 19 » Pope John Paul II canonizes 117 Vietnamese Martyrs.
• August 8 » The first night baseball game in the history of Chicago's Wrigley Field (game was rained out in the fourth inning).
• August 21 » The 6.9 M_w  Nepal earthquake shakes the Nepal–India border with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 709–1,450 people killed and thousands injured.

The temperature on August 19, 1988 was between 15.1 °C and 22.5 °C and averaged 18.7 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.