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• Kim Elise Hermans, Nootdorp
• Johannes Willem Antony van Hilten, Leiden

• Colette Caroline Marie Ghillaine (Colette) DE LAMINNE DE BEX (60), Nandrin (B)
• * Cornelis Catharinus (Kees) van den Braak (78), Tilburg
• Albertus Bolink (71), Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Albert van de Kolk (66), harderwijk
• Antonie Meijer (77)
• Cornelis Gijsbertus Langelaar (71), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albert van de Kolk (66), Harderwijk
• Alice Margaret McGrillies (68)
• Antonie C Murk (76), Vlissingen
• Arthur Lamand Dude Alexander (81), Bakersfield, Kern, California, Verenigde Staten

• 1987 » Félix Doubront, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1987 » Faye, Swedish singer-songwriter (Play)
• 1987 » Kyle Gibson, American baseball player
• 1987 » Miyuu Sawai, Japanese model and actress
• 1987 » Naomi Watanabe, Japanese actress
• 1987 » Robin Copeland, Irish rugby player
• 1987 » Seo In-guk, South Korean singer and actor
• 1988 » Aleksandr Salugin, Russian footballer
• 1988 » Carolin Schiewe, German footballer
• 1988 » Jordan Crawford, American basketball player

• 1978 » Maybelle Carter, American singer and autoharp player (Carter Family) (b. 1909)
• 1983 » Jessica Savitch, American journalist (b. 1947)
• 1984 » Oskar Werner, Austrian-German actor (b. 1922)
• 1986 » Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893)
• 1988 » Asashio Tarō III, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 46th Yokozuna (b. 1929)
• 1989 » Armida, Mexican-American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1911)
• 1990 » Thomas Williams, American author and academic (b. 1926)
• 1994 » Robert Lansing, American actor (b. 1928)
• 1996 » Bob Grim, American baseball player (b. 1930)
• 1997 » Bert Haanstra, Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter (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. 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.
• February 29 » Svend Robinson becomes the first member of the House of Commons of Canada to come out as gay.
• April 10 » The Ojhri Camp explosion kills or injures more than 1,000 people in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan.
• 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.
• 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 28 » Ramstein air show disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. Seventy-five are killed and 346 seriously injured.

The temperature on October 23, 1988 was between 6.6 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.