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• Sylvana Knook, Naarden, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1990)
• Daniël Bernardus Francisco Löesink, Gaanderen

• Anna Bouwkamp (87), Muskegon, Muskegon County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Christina Theodora van Doorn (74), Amsterdam
• Anna Aleida Margaretha KRONENBERG (76), Enschede
• Anthony Wayne Olsen (63), Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
• Andries Marinus Hoek (79), Stavenisse, Zeeland, Nederland
• Annie Eugenie Sevensma (65), Westerbork, Drenthe, Nederland
• Andreas Lambertus Antonius Dekkers (81), Roermond
• Anna Aleida Margaretha (Lei) Kronenberg (76), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Alexander Schouteden (77)
• Albert CARTON (72), Menen

• 1986 » Dustin Boyd, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 » Misako Uno, Japanese actress, singer, and fashion designer
• 1987 » AnnaLynne McCord, American actress and producer
• 1987 » Knowshon Moreno, American football player
• 1987 » Mousa Dembélé, Belgian footballer
• 1988 » Sergio Busquets, Spanish footballer
• 1989 » Gareth Bale, Welsh footballer
• 1990 » Bureta Faraimo, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1990 » Johann Zarco, French motorcycle racer
• 1990 » Wizkid, Nigerian singer and songwriter

• 1982 » Charles Robberts Swart, South African lawyer and politician, 1st State President of South Africa (b. 1894)
• 1985 » Heinrich Böll, German novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
• 1985 » Wayne King, American saxophonist, songwriter, and bandleader (b. 1901)
• 1989 » Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor and manager (b. 1908)
• 1990 » Miguel Muñoz, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1922)
• 1990 » Robert Blackburn, Irish educator (b. 1927)
• 1991 » Frank Rizzo, American police officer and politician, 93rd Mayor of Philadelphia (b. 1920)
• 1991 » Meindert DeJong, Dutch-American soldier and author (b. 1906)
• 1991 » Robert Motherwell, American painter and academic (b. 1915)
• 1992 » Buck Buchanan, American football player and coach (b. 1940)

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.
• March 6 » Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in Operation Flavius.
• March 16 » The Troubles: Ulster loyalist militant Michael Stone attacks a Provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades. Three persons, one of them a member of PIRA are killed, and more than 60 others are wounded.
• April 25 » In Israel, John Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.
• May 9 » New Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.
• August 20 » The Troubles: Eight British soldiers are killed and 28 wounded when their bus is hit by an IRA roadside bomb in Ballygawley, County Tyrone.
• September 27 » The National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and others to fight dictatorship in Myanmar.

The temperature on July 16, 1988 was between 12.6 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 11.4 mm of rain during 17.5 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.