About the day » Friday July 8, 1988Calender converter

• Tamara Goossens, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2007)
• Paulus Hugo Teunis Steehouwer, Dordrecht († 1993)
• Paulus Hugo Teunis Steehouwer, Dordrecht († 1993)
• Derek Alan Trevlyn Spence, Prince Edward Island, Canada († 2010)

• Allan Frederick Glover (58), Worthing, West Sussex, England
• Alice Lucretia Bright (74), Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho
• Alice Ruth Herke (69), Graettinger, Palo Alto Co., Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia van der Plas (79), Katwijk aan Zee
• Adriana (Marietje) van Dorst (54), Eindhoven (NLD)
• Charles H. BUTTON (85), Sharon Springs Schoharie County New York U.S.A
• Bartholomeus (Bart) Belonje (66), 's-Gravenhage Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andries Mulderij (71), British Columbia
• Bertha van Boxtel (71), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Elizabeth Geard (95), Hampton, Bay, Michigan

• 1986 » Jaime Garcia, Mexican baseball player
• 1986 » Renata Costa, Brazilian footballer
• 1988 » Dave Taylor, Australian rugby league player
• 1988 » Jesse Sergent, New Zealand cyclist
• 1988 » Miki Roqué, Spanish footballer († 2012)
• 1989 » Tor Marius Gromstad, Norwegian footballer († 2012)
• 1989 » Yarden Gerbi, Israeli Judo champion
• 1991 » Virgil van Dijk, Dutch footballer
• 1992 » Ariel Camacho, Mexican singer-songwriter († 2015)
• 1992 » Son Heung-min, Korean footballer

• 1985 » Jean-Paul Le Chanois, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1909)
• 1985 » Phil Foster, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1913)
• 1986 » Skeeter Webb, American baseball player and manager (b. 1909)
• 1987 » Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet and author (b. 1896)
• 1987 » Lionel Chevrier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 27th Canadian Minister of Justice (b. 1903)
• 1988 » Ray Barbuti, American runner and football player (b. 1905)
• 1990 » Howard Duff, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1991 » James Franciscus, American actor (b. 1934)
• 1994 » Christian-Jaque, French director and screenwriter (b. 1904)
• 1994 » Kim Il-sung, North Korean commander and politician, President of North Korea (b. 1912)

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. Jessica
2. Maria
3. Linda
4. Laura
5. Anne
6. Sarah
7. Johanna
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.
• April 28 » Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing is blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane's fuselage rips open in mid-flight.
• August 28 » Ramstein air show disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. Seventy-five are killed and 346 seriously injured.
• 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.
• November 3 » Sri Lankan Tamil mercenaries attempt to overthrow the Maldivian government. At President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom's request, the Indian military suppresses the rebellion within 24 hours.
• November 8 » U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush is elected as the 41st president.
• November 15 » Israeli–Palestinian conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.

The temperature on July 8, 1988 was between 12.7 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 7.5 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (21%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.