About the day » Monday September 5, 1988Calender converter

• Lucas Wakker († 2023)
• Tars Algoed, Leuven († 1988)
• Jonas Etienne Omer Lagast, Gent († 1989)
• Kornelis Jacob van Slooten († 2003)
• Sven van de Bruinhorst, Naarden († 2009)

• Bastiaan Baks (80), Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Cornelis de Niet (91), Scheveningen
• Albertus Holkema (69)
• Anna Arina van Santen (77)
• Albert Nibbelink (86), Pella, Marion County, Iowa
• Marie (88), Union, Union County, New Jersey
• Cornelis SIER (19)
• Agnes F. Bissing (92), Appleton, Outagamie (USA)
• Alphonsius Eduardus Vanvoorden (76), Hasselt, België
• Daniel Lambertus Johannes Penseel (78), Amsterdam

• 1986 » Colt McCoy, American football player
• 1986 » Pragyan Ojha, Indian cricketer
• 1988 » Denni Avdić, Swedish footballer
• 1988 » Felipe Caicedo, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1989 » Ben Youngs, English rugby player
• 1989 » Elena Delle Donne, American basketball player
• 1989 » José Ángel Valdés, Spanish footballer
• 1990 » Antonio Esposito, Italian footballer
• 1990 » Francesca Segarelli, Dominican tennis player
• 1990 » Lance Stephenson, American basketball player

• 1984 » Adam Malik, Indonesian politician and diplomat, 3rd Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1917)
• 1984 » Jane Roberts, American psychic and author (b. 1929)
• 1985 » Johannes Hint, Estonian engineer (b. 1914)
• 1986 » Neerja Bhanot, Indian model and youngest recipient of country's highest peacetime military award Ashok Chakra (b. 1963)
• 1988 » Gert Fröbe, German actor and singer (b. 1913)
• 1989 » Philip Baxter, Welsh-Australian chemical engineer (b. 1905)
• 1990 » Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon, English academic and diplomat (b. 1907)
• 1990 » Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian politician (b. 1896)
• 1990 » Jerry Iger, American cartoonist and publisher, co-founded Eisner & Iger (b. 1903)
• 1991 » Sharad Joshi, Indian author and poet (b. 1931)

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.
• February 6 » Michael Jordan makes his signature slam dunk from the free throw line inspiring Air Jordan and the Jumpman logo.
• February 27 » Sumgait pogrom: The Armenian community in Sumgait, Azerbaijan is targeted in a violent pogrom.
• May 4 » The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of Space Shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.
• June 12 » Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 46, a McDonnell Douglas MD-81, crashes short of the runway at Libertador General José de San Martín Airport, killing all 22 people on board.
• November 15 » Israeli–Palestinian conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
• 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 September 5, 1988 was between 9.3 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 11.5 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (15%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.