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• Bart Veth, Papendrecht († 2008)

• Anna Maria Gertruda Vandenboorn (89)
• Aukje Stellinga (52)
• Antoon Eliza Doornaar (78), amsterdam, Nederland
• Agnes L. Peterson (92), Adel, Iowa
• Anna Maria Gertruda van den Boorn (89)
• Alida Roele (62), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arie van Duijn (67), Katwijk
• Afra Maria Bakker (66), Aerdenhout, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Izaak 'Arjaan' de Hullu (87), Oostburg, Zeeland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Schelfhout, Sas van Gent, Nederland

• 1985 » Michelle Carter, American shot putter
• 1985 » Mike Green, Canadian hockey player
• 1986 » Ioannis Maniatis, Greek footballer
• 1986 » Sergio Peter, German footballer
• 1986 » Tyler Blackburn, American actor
• 1987 » Marvin Ogunjimi, Belgian footballer
• 1988 » Calum Scott, British singer
• 1988 » Sam Whitelock, New Zealand rugby player
• 1989 » Anna Ohmiya, Japanese curler
• 1990 » Henri Lansbury, English footballer

• 1985 » Johnny Olson, American radio host and game show announcer (b. 1910)
• 1985 » Ricky Wilson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1953)
• 1987 » Alf Landon, American lieutenant and politician, 26th Governor of Kansas (b. 1887)
• 1987 » Fahri Korutürk, Turkish commander and politician, 6th President of Turkey (b. 1903)
• 1988 » Coby Whitmore, American painter and illustrator (b. 1913)
• 1988 » Ruth Manning-Sanders, Welsh-English poet and author (b. 1886)
• 1989 » Jay Ward, American animator, producer, and screenwriter, founded Jay Ward Productions (b. 1920)
• 1990 » Peter Wessel Zapffe, Norwegian physician, mountaineer, and author (b. 1899)
• 1990 » Rifaat el-Mahgoub, Egyptian politician (b. 1926)
• 1991 » Sheila Florance, Australian actress (b. 1916)

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. Maria
2. Jessica
3. Linda
4. Laura
5. Anne
6. Sarah
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 6 » Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in Operation Flavius.
• 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.
• May 16 » A report by the Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
• 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.
• November 15 » Israeli–Palestinian conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
• November 16 » The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic declares that Estonia is "sovereign" but stops short of declaring independence.

The temperature on October 12, 1988 was between 9.4 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.