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• Jesper Legierse, ,, Texel, Nederland († 1988)

• Elsie Bernice Luedecking (87), Kalamazoo. Kalamazoo Co.Michigan
• Chris Ensing Ensing
• Aagje Neeltje van Mourik (81)
• Albert Leon Jan CLIJSTERS (71), Genk, Province of Limburg, Belgium
• Albert Willem Peters (58), Gorssel,Gemeente Lochem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Audy S. Lay (73), Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, Verenigde Staten
• Evert Hendrik van Tuijl (75), Amsterdam
• Anne Alberts SINNEMA (78), Gorredijk (Opsterland) Friesland Netherlands
• Cornelis Kerkhof (70), Utrecht
• Evert Hendrik van Tuijl (75), amsterdam, Nederland

• 1983 » Adam Lind, American baseball player
• 1983 » Ryan Guettler, Australian motocross racer
• 1985 » Loui Eriksson, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1985 » Neil McGregor, Scottish footballer
• 1985 » Tom Fletcher, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1986 » DeAngelo Smith, American football player
• 1986 » Lacey Von Erich, American wrestler
• 1987 » Darius Boyd, Australian rugby league player
• 1987 » Jan Charouz, Czech race car driver
• 1987 » Jeremih, American singer, songwriter, and record producer

• 1980 » Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1890)
• 1980 » Don "Red" Barry, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 1988 » Bruiser Brody, American football player and wrestler (b. 1946)
• 1989 » Itubwa Amram, Nauruan pastor and politician (b. 1922)
• 1991 » John Patrick Spiegel, American psychiatrist and academic (b. 1911)
• 1994 » Jean Borotra, French tennis player (b. 1898)
• 1995 » Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1911)
• 1996 » Chas Chandler, American bass player and producer (b. 1938)
• 1996 » Victims of TWA Flight 800
• 1998 » Lillian Hoban, American author and illustrator (b. 1925)

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.
• February 29 » South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with one hundred other clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town.
• March 6 » Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in Operation Flavius.
• April 25 » In Israel, John Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.
• July 23 » General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.
• August 8 » The first night baseball game in the history of Chicago's Wrigley Field (game was rained out in the fourth inning).
• December 8 » A United States Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II crashes into an apartment complex in Remscheid, Germany, killing 5 people and injuring 50 others.

The temperature on July 17, 1988 was between 11.9 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 5.2 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.