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• Kelsey Dawn Tinklenberg, Pipestone County, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• bionda beeren, deurne
• sanne g.j. hunnekens, helden-panningen
• Kerri FROHLING, East London

• Christiaan Hubertus van Deur (76), Roermond,, Limburg, Nederland
• Abrama Wijngaarden (89)
• Anne Boonstra (81), -
• Cornelis TIELEMAN Czn (85), Dirksland, Goeree-Overflakkee, NL-ZH
• adrianus HUISERT (93), nieuwenhoorn
• Cornelia Antonia Adolphina Versteegh (73), 's-Gravenhage
• Catrien (Trijntje ) van der Blom (90), Zaanstad, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Leeuw (90), Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland
• Abram Butterworth (68), Haskell, Passaic, New Jersey, United States of America
• Anna Maria Catharina van Rooij (92), Tilburg, NB Netherlands

• 1988 » Ángel Mena, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1988 » Aleksandar Lazevski, Macedonian footballer
• 1988 » Ashton Eaton, American decathlete
• 1988 » Ben Turner, English footballer
• 1988 » Glaiza de Castro, Filipino actress and singer
• 1988 » Nemanja Tomić, Serbian footballer
• 1988 » Pieter Timmers, Belgian swimmer
• 1988 » Rolands Freimanis, Latvian basketball player
• 1988 » Valérie Tétreault, Canadian tennis player
• 1988 » Vanessa Hessler, Italian-American model and actress

• 1983 » Lamar Williams, American bass player (b. 1949)
• 1984 » Giannis Skarimpas, Greek playwright and poet (b. 1893)
• 1984 » Jackie Wilson, American singer (b. 1934)
• 1985 » Eddie Graham, American wrestler and promoter (b. 1930)
• 1985 » James Beard, American chef and author (b. 1903)
• 1987 » Charles Goodell, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1926)
• 1988 » Vincent Lingiari, Australian Aboriginal rights activist (b. 1919)
• 1989 » Billy Tipton, American pianist and saxophonist (b. 1914)
• 1989 » Carl Furillo, American baseball player (b. 1922)
• 1993 » Charlie Gehringer, American baseball player and manager (b. 1903)

• 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.
• October 12 » Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down execution-style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.
• November 2 » The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
• November 15 » The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
• 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.
• 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 January 21, 1988 was between 1.4 °C and 5.7 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.