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• Ryan Cortright III († 1992)
• Kevin van Steenis, Sliedrecht
• Henricus Cornelis Robbert Vermolen, 's Gravenhage († 1988)
• Rebecca Schelling, Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland

• Corinne HILLMAN (70), Montgomery County,OH
• Cornelia Elisabeth de Groot (41), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Carolina Rombouts (90), Edegem,, Antwerpen, België
• Anne Kieffer (64)
• Achiel Cyriel BOENS (81), Menen/Menin
• Antoon Koornhof (70), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Jelles Huizinga (89), Lekkum, Leeuwarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Christiaan Joseph (Chris) Tap (88), Gendt
• Arie Dirksz de Vries (88), unbekannt
• Addie Pauline Crawford Harlien (78), Tyler, Smith, Texas, Verenigde Staten

• 1986 » Ikusaburo Yamazaki, Japanese actor and singer
• 1986 » Marya Roxx, Estonian-American singer-songwriter
• 1987 » Christopher Liebig, German rugby player
• 1987 » Grigoris Makos, Greek footballer
• 1987 » Johan Djourou, Swiss footballer
• 1988 » Anastasios Kissas, Greek footballer
• 1988 » Angelique Kerber, German tennis player
• 1988 » Boy van Poppel, Dutch cyclist
• 1988 » Ronnie Day, American singer-songwriter
• 1989 » Rubén Miño, Spanish footballer

• 1980 » Cecil Beaton, English fashion designer and photographer (b. 1904)
• 1984 » Panteleimon Ponomarenko, Belarusian general and politician (b. 1902)
• 1984 » Vassilis Tsitsanis, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player (b. 1915)
• 1989 » Bruce Chatwin, English-French author (b. 1940)
• 1990 » Melanie Appleby, English singer (b. 1966)
• 1990 » Rusty Hamer, American actor (b. 1947)
• 1993 » Dionysios Zakythinos, Greek historian, academic, and politician (b. 1905)
• 1995 » Adolf Butenandt, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1995 » Ron Luciano, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1937)
• 1996 » N. T. Rama Rao, Indian actor, director, producer, and politician, 10th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (b. 1923)

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.
• 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.
• July 23 » General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.
• August 17 » President of Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.
• 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.
• December 2 » Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.
• December 13 » PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat gives a speech at a UN General Assembly meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, after United States authorities refused to grant him a visa to visit UN headquarters in New York.

The temperature on January 18, 1988 was between 0.7 °C and 5.3 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.