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• Isaac Toering, Sioux City, Woodbury County, Iowa († 2024)

• Cornelia Theresia Christoffer (100), Callantsoog
• Annie Maria Catriena van den Bosch (75), Wageningen
• Adriaan Verschoor (62), Hardinxveld-Giessendam
• Anneke Feddema (55), Dantumadeel
• Adriana Stuiver (81), Wilhelminaoord
• Cornelia van Tintelen (85), Shepparton (Australië)
• Bastiaantje ZWIENEN, van (74), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catherine Wilkins Hayes
• Andre Deschrijver (79), Torhout
• Anna Maria de Bruin (69), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1986 » Ana Kasparian, American journalist and producer
• 1986 » Sevyn Streeter, American singer-songwriter
• 1986 » Udo Schwarz, German rugby player
• 1988 » Kaci Brown, American singer-songwriter
• 1988 » Lukas Rosenthal, German rugby player
• 1989 » Karl-August Tiirmaa, Estonian skier
• 1989 » Landon Cassill, American race car driver
• 1989 » Miina Kallas, Estonian footballer
• 1990 » Lee Addy, Ghanaian footballer
• 1990 » Pascal Stöger, Austrian footballer

• 1980 » Dore Schary, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1905)
• 1982 » Bon Maharaja, Indian guru and religious writer (b. 1901)
• 1984 » George Oppen, American poet and author (b. 1908)
• 1987 » Germaine Thyssens-Valentin, Dutch-French pianist (b. 1902)
• 1990 » Bill Cullen, American television panelist and game show host (b. 1920)
• 1990 » Cazuza, Brazilian singer and songwriter (b. 1958)
• 1993 » Rıfat Ilgaz, Turkish author, poet, and educator (b. 1911)
• 1994 » Cameron Mitchell, American actor (b. 1918)
• 1994 » Carlo Chiti, Italian engineer (b. 1924)
• 1994 » Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German general (b. 1907)

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.
• March 13 » The Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel in the world, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan.
• April 10 » The Ojhri Camp explosion kills or injures more than 1,000 people in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan.
• August 8 » The first night baseball game in the history of Chicago's Wrigley Field (game was rained out in the fourth inning).
• September 12 » Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula two days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage.
• October 19 » The British government imposes a broadcasting ban on television and radio interviews with members of Sinn Féin and eleven Irish republican and Ulster loyalist paramilitary groups.
• December 21 » A bomb explodes on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270. This is to date the deadliest air disaster to occur in British soil.

The temperature on July 7, 1988 was between 13.4 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 4.2 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.