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• Marleen van 't Westeinde, Delfzijl, Groningen, Netherlands († 1988)
• Pieter Geert Zeijlmaker, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Jurgen Belmans
• Hilde Hikspoors († 1988)
• Kelvin Koot
• Bradley Tolsma, Taber, Taber, Alberta, Canada († 2013)

• Ethel Tanner (76), Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia
• Emilie Cornelia Volkmann (75)
• Alida Klazina Vetter (88), Rijswijk, Gemeente Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Frances Elizabeth Kjos (68), Sibley County, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Catharina Cornelia den Braber (87), Bergen op Zoom, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Florence Joy Adriance (77), Winchester (Middlesex County) (Massachusetts)
• FRANCES E. SPITZACK (68), Sibley, Minnesota
• Catharina Frederika Visscher (88)
• Antonius Teunis (Ton) de Wit (63), Leidschendam
• Adrianus Gregorius Kleijweg (96), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1985 » Nesta Carter, Jamaican sprinter
• 1986 » Ikioi Shōta, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1987 » Mike Conley, Jr., American basketball player
• 1987 » Nathan Coulter-Nile, Australian cricketer
• 1987 » Tony Beltran, American soccer player
• 1988 » Omar Gonzalez, American soccer player
• 1988 » Ricochet, American wrestler
• 1989 » Michelle Wie, American golfer
• 1990 » Joo, South Korean singer and actress
• 1990 » Sebastian Rode, German footballer

• 1983 » R. Fraser Armstrong, Canadian administrator and engineer (b. 1889)
• 1984 » Benno Schotz, Scottish sculptor and engineer (b. 1891)
• 1986 » Norm Cash, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1934)
• 1988 » Bonita Granville, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1989 » M. King Hubbert, American geologist and academic (b. 1904)
• 1991 » Redd Foxx, American actor and comedian (b. 1922)
• 1993 » Andy Stewart, Scottish singer and entertainer (b. 1933)
• 1996 » Eleanor Cameron, Canadian-American author and critic (b. 1912)
• 1996 » Keith Boyce, Barbadian cricketer (b. 1943)
• 1996 » Renato Russo, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1960)

• 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.
• April 28 » Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing is blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane's fuselage rips open in mid-flight.
• 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".
• May 9 » New Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.
• May 14 » Carrollton bus collision: A drunk driver traveling the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. Twenty-seven die in the crash and ensuing fire.
• October 17 » Uganda Airlines Flight 775 crashes at Rome–Fiumicino International Airport, in Rome, Italy, killing 33 people.
• 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 October 11, 1988 was between 2.8 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (6%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.