About the day » Tuesday October 4, 1988Calender converter

• Jan Fennema, Stadskanaal, Groningen, Nederland († 2002)
• Jan Fennema, Stadskanaal, Groningen, Netherlands († 2002)
• Elsemieke Willems, Arnhem
• Robin Pieter Cornelis Peters, Emmen († 1988)
• Rick van der Linden
• Linda de Ram († 1988)
• Jan (Arjan) Fennema, Stadskanaal Groningen Nederland († 2002)
• Nadie Winde, Rotterdam

• Eugène Schols (78)
• Frederica van der Leest (69), Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• ALPHONSUS ANDREAS LAS VAN BENNEKOM (68), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Anna Vanheule (87), 8840, Staden, West-Vlaanderen, België
• Adrianus Verheij (87)
• Dirk Hoefman (53), Amsterdam
• Eugenia Bernardoni (98), Galveston, Galveston, TX
• Auke Feenstra (75)
• Edward H Daume (91), Gwinnett Med Ctr, Lawrencevllle, Gwinnett Co, Georgia, Verenigde Staten
• Evert Jan Makkinga (63)

• 1987 » Marina Weisband, German politician
• 1987 » Rawez Lawan, Swedish footballer
• 1987 » Will Puddy, English footballer
• 1988 » Caner Erkin, Turkish footballer
• 1988 » Derrick Rose, American basketball player
• 1988 » Evgeni Krasnopolski, Israeli figure skater
• 1988 » Melissa Benoist, American actress and singer
• 1989 » Dakota Johnson, American model and actress
• 1990 » Sergey Shubenkov, Russian hurdler
• 1990 » Signy Aarna, Estonian footballer

• 1980 » Pyotr Masherov, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia (b. 1918)
• 1981 » Freddie Lindstrom, American baseball player and coach (b. 1905)
• 1982 » Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and conductor (b. 1932)
• 1982 » Stefanos Stefanopoulos, Greek politician, 165th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1898)
• 1988 » Zlatko Grgić, Croatian-Canadian animator, director, and screenwriter (b. 1931)
• 1989 » Graham Chapman, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1941)
• 1990 » Mārtiņš Zīverts, Latvian playwright (b. 1903)
• 1992 » Denny Hulme, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1936)
• 1994 » Danny Gatton, American guitarist (b. 1945)
• 1997 » Otto Ernst Remer, German general (b. 1912)

1. Thomas
2. Jeroen
3. Jan
4. Michael
5. Kevin
6. Robert
7. Mark
8. Johannes
9. Tim
10. Frank
11. Dennis
12. Patrick
13. Bart
14. Daniel
15. Pieter
16. Nick

1. Jessica
2. Maria
3. Linda
4. Laura
5. Sarah
6. Anne
7. Johanna
8. Sandra
9. Sanne
10. Samantha
11. Anna
12. Kim
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 16 » The Troubles: Ulster loyalist militant Michael Stone attacks a Provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades. Three persons, one of them a member of PIRA are killed, and more than 60 others are wounded.
• 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.
• July 6 » The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. One hundred sixty-seven oil workers are killed, making it the world's worst offshore oil disaster in terms of direct loss of life.
• August 20 » "Black Saturday" of the Yellowstone fire in Yellowstone National Park
• November 3 » Sri Lankan Tamil mercenaries attempt to overthrow the Maldivian government. At President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom's request, the Indian military suppresses the rebellion within 24 hours.
• November 15 » The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.

The temperature on October 4, 1988 was between 8.2 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.