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• Kenny Dujardin, Ronse, 9600, Oost-Vlaanderen, België († 1988)
• Reinout Caspar James Barge († 2012)

• Anna Maria Maas (94), Schijndel
• Carolina Arnolda Maria Verhoeven (67), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albertus Johannes PLATTEL (59), Raalte
• Boudewijn van MECHELEN (50), Lier,, Antwerpen, België
• Bertho Menno Mendels (38)
• Anna Gerardina van Deursen (73), Bergen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Griffioen (72), Den Haag
• Anthonie Jan Adriaan Kraaijeveld (61), Zoetermeer, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Lucia Maria Monica Blekemolen (61), Purmerend
• Bastiaan Kip (83)

• 1986 » Nick Evans, American baseball player
• 1987 » Arda Turan, Turkish footballer
• 1987 » Becky Lynch, Irish wrestler
• 1987 » Ben Cutting, Australian cricketer
• 1987 » Lance Franklin, Australian footballer
• 1987 » Phil Lester, English Internet celebrity
• 1987 » Renato Santos, Brazilian footballer
• 1988 » Rob Pinkston, American actor and director
• 1989 » Girish Kumar, Indian film actor
• 1989 » Tomás Mejías, Spanish footballer

• 1977 » Paul Marais de Beauchamp, French zoologist (b. 1883)
• 1980 » Professor Longhair, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1918)
• 1982 » Lightnin' Hopkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1912)
• 1991 » Clifton C. Edom, American photographer and educator (b. 1907)
• 1991 » John Bardeen, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
• 1994 » Pierre Boulle, French soldier and author (b. 1912)
• 1999 » Ed Herlihy, American journalist (b. 1909)
• 1999 » Huntz Hall, American actor (b. 1919)
• 2001 » Jean-Pierre Aumont, French soldier and actor (b. 1911)
• 2001 » Johnnie Johnson, English air marshal and pilot (b. 1915)

• 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 12 » Cold War: The 1988 Black Sea bumping incident: The U.S. missile cruiser USSYorktown(CG-48) is intentionally rammed by the Soviet frigate Bezzavetnyy in the Soviet territorial waters, while Yorktown claims innocent passage.
• March 17 » A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
• May 29 » The U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
• June 4 » Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500.
• August 21 » The 6.9 M_w  Nepal earthquake shakes the Nepal–India border with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 709–1,450 people killed and thousands injured.
• October 7 » A hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice near Alaska; the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales.

The temperature on January 30, 1988 was between 3.4 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.