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• Randy Patrick (Randy) Fokkens, Zuidwolde, Drenthe, Nederland
• Marc Raghoebar, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1988)

• Anthonius Joris Van Der Helm (80), Leidschendam
• Antoine Malcor Deydier Comte de Pierrefeu (93), au château de Mée (France)
• Aleid Pieter Albert Jonkheer Elias (87), Baarn, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anthonius Bakker (71)
• Antje Meyns (82)
• Catharina Johanna Ooms (70), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aafje KROON (71), Volendam, Edam-Volendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Berend Hendrik Beerdsen (83), Ede, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Geerts (95), Chaam
• Aart van Dijk (86)

• 1987 » Donny Montell, Lithuanian singer-songwriter
• 1987 » Park Ha-sun, South Korean actress
• 1987 » Reen Yu, Taiwanese actress
• 1987 » Tiki Gelana, Ethiopian runner
• 1988 » Aykut Demir, Turkish footballer
• 1988 » Elena Muhhina, Estonian figure skater
• 1988 » Parineeti Chopra, Indian actress
• 1988 » Sarah Barrow, English diver
• 1989 » Marco Restrepo, American musician
• 1989 » Muhammad Wilkerson, American football player

• 1985 » Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian soprano and educator (b. 1894)
• 1986 » Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian-American physiologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893)
• 1986 » Jane Dornacker, American actress and singer (b. 1947)
• 1986 » Thorgeir Stubø, Norwegian guitarist and composer (b. 1943)
• 1986 » Ye Jianying, Chinese general and politician, Head of State of the People's Republic of China (b. 1897)
• 1987 » Lino Ventura, Italian-French actor (b. 1919)
• 1988 » Cynthia Freeman, American author (b. 1915)
• 1989 » Ewan MacColl, English singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and playwright (b. 1915)
• 1989 » Jacob Wetterling, American kidnapping victim (b. 1978)
• 1990 » Louis Althusser, Algerian-French philosopher and academic (b. 1918)

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. Jessica
2. Maria
3. Linda
4. Laura
5. Anne
6. Sarah
7. Johanna
8. Sandra
9. Samantha
10. Sanne
11. Kim
12. Anna
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.
• April 10 » The Ojhri Camp explosion kills or injures more than 1,000 people in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan.
• May 24 » Section 28 of the United Kingdom's Local Government Act 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, is enacted.
• July 31 » Thirty-two people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Penang, Malaysia.
• September 7 » Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first Afghan in space, returns to Earth after nine days on the Mir space station.
• October 27 » Cold War: Ronald Reagan suspends construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow due to Soviet listening devices in the building structure.
• December 7 » The 6.8 M_s  Armenian earthquake shakes the northern part of the country with a maximum MSK intensity of X (Devastating), killing 25,000–50,000 and injuring 31,000–130,000.

The temperature on October 22, 1988 was between 7.9 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (24%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.