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• Leslie van Putten, Apeldoorn († 1988)
• Ernst Röttger
• Bethany Sarah Moore [K |||], Spartanburg County, South Carolina († 1988)

• Douwtsen Minderts Meyer (85), Buitenpost
• Burl Bowen (73), Job, Martin, Kentucky, United States of America
• Charlie Hinders (70), fortasse, somewhere in IA
• Anna Kramer (91), Broek op L'dijk
• Bertus van Veen (75)
• Eduard Emile Kuijntjes (68), Enschede
• Anna Maria Beumkes (76)
• Adrianus Duivenvoorde (95), Noordwijkerhout
• Aleida Francisca Grondman (74), Hengelo, 7550, Nederland
• Christiaan Paulussen (76), Genk-Waterschei, Provincie Limburg, België

• 1986 » İbrahim Kaş, Turkish footballer
• 1986 » Aldis Hodge, American actor
• 1986 » Hayato Fujita, Japanese wrestler
• 1986 » Jason Nightingale, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1987 » Gain, South Korean singer
• 1987 » Jack Lawless, American drummer
• 1987 » Tito Tebaldi, Italian rugby player
• 1988 » Ayano Ōmoto, Japanese singer and dancer
• 1988 » Ryan Simpkins, Australian rugby league player
• 1988 » Sergei Bobrovsky, Russian ice hockey player

• 1979 » Ludvík Svoboda, Czech general and politician, 8th President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1895)
• 1984 » Steve Goodman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948)
• 1985 » Helen MacInnes, Scottish-American librarian and author (b. 1907)
• 1987 » Michael Stewart, American playwright and composer (b. 1924)
• 1993 » Erich Hartmann, German soldier and pilot (b. 1922)
• 1994 » Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean physician, academic, and diplomat (b. 1924)
• 1994 » Jule Styne, American composer (b. 1905)
• 1996 » Paul Erdős, Hungarian-Polish mathematician and academic (b. 1913)
• 1996 » Paul Weston, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1912)
• 1996 » Reuben Kamanga, Zambian politician, 1st Vice-President of Zambia (b. 1929)

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.
• February 20 » The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast votes to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia, triggering the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
• June 27 » The Gare de Lyon rail accident in Paris, France, kills 56 people.
• September 12 » Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula two days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage.
• September 13 » Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure).
• September 18 » The 8888 Uprising in Myanmar comes to an end.
• November 8 » U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush is elected as the 41st president.

The temperature on September 20, 1988 was between 12.3 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.