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• Briar Rose Meester († 1988)

• Arij Romeijn (89), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Albert Esselbrugge (84), Sneek, Friesland, Nederland
• Bertha Ann Webb (93), Chicago, Cook, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Catharina Cornelia Kuijs (83), Waalwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arendje Arenda van Duijvenbode (0), unbekannt
• Albert Alberts Esselbrugge (84), Sneek
• Catrina Johanna Jansen (74), IJmuiden, Velsen
• Albert Esselbrugge (84), Bolsward
• Anna Wilhelmina RADELEFF (93)
• Adrianus Theodorus van der Leeuw (63), Den Haag

• 1986 » Fred Davis, American football player
• 1987 » David Knight, English footballer
• 1987 » Greg Inglis, Australian rugby league player
• 1987 » Kelleigh Ryan, Canadian fencer
• 1987 » Michael Seater, Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1987 » Tsegaye Kebede, Ethiopian runner
• 1988 » Daniel Caligiuri, German footballer
• 1988 » Skrillex, American DJ and producer
• 1989 » Alexei Cherepanov, Russian ice hockey player († 2008)
• 1990 » Paul Blake, English sprinter

• 1982 » Red Smith, American journalist (b. 1905)
• 1983 » Armin Öpik, Estonian-Australian paleontologist and geologist (b. 1898)
• 1983 » Shepperd Strudwick, American actor (b. 1907)
• 1984 » Fazıl Küçük, Cypriot journalist and politician (b. 1906)
• 1987 » Ray Bolger, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1904)
• 1988 » Seán MacBride, Irish republican activist and politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 1990 » Gordon Jackson, Scottish-English actor (b. 1923)
• 1990 » Peggy van Praagh, English ballerina, choreographer, and director (b. 1910)
• 1993 » Sammy Cahn, American songwriter (b. 1913)
• 1994 » Georges Cziffra, Hungarian-French pianist and composer (b. 1921)

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.
• March 20 » Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the Eritrean People's Liberation Front enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet.
• May 8 » A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered to be the "worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history".
• July 31 » Thirty-two people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Penang, Malaysia.
• August 8 » The first night baseball game in the history of Chicago's Wrigley Field (game was rained out in the fourth inning).
• September 27 » The National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and others to fight dictatorship in Myanmar.
• December 12 » The Clapham Junction rail crash kills thirty-five and injures hundreds after two collisions of three commuter trains—one of the worst train crashes in the United Kingdom.

The temperature on January 15, 1988 was between -0.9 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.