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• Pearl Odessa Whitaker Wright, Georgia op
• Nick Veerman († 1990)
• Tamara Soeteman

• Claude Lee Scott (77), Riverside County (California)
• Adriana Maria Ruigrok (73), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Hendrika Mathilda Kluts (85), Rotterdam
• Cornelia Maria Francisca Brocken (70), Tilburg
• Cornelia Mechelina de Rooij (79), Tilburg, 4272, Noord Brabant, NL
• Anna Elisabeth Melania HOUBEN (86), Tongeren (Limburg) (B)
• Arthur Kellermeier (68)
• Barteld DOEK (81), Emmen Drenthe Netherlands
• Barteld Doek (77), Emmen
• Augusta Albertina Maria van der Loo (78), Nova Friburga (Brazilië)

• 1986 » Ibor Bakar, French footballer
• 1986 » Jakub Rzeźniczak, Polish footballer
• 1986 » Marco Ruben, Argentinian footballer
• 1986 » Schoolboy Q, German-American rapper
• 1987 » Abudramae Bamba, Ivorian footballer
• 1987 » Shawn Lauvao, American football player
• 1988 » Greg Zuerlein, American figure skater
• 1989 » Dre Kirkpatrick, American football player
• 1989 » Emil Sayfutdinov, Russian motorcycle racer
• 1990 » Mark Swanepoel, South African rugby player

• 1978 » Alexander Gerschenkron, Ukrainian-American historian, critic, and academic (b. 1904)
• 1979 » Park Chung-hee, South Korean general and politician, 3rd President of South Korea (b. 1917)
• 1984 » Gus Mancuso, American baseball player and coach (b. 1905)
• 1986 » Jackson Scholz, American runner (b. 1897)
• 1989 » Charles J. Pedersen, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 1991 » Sherry Hawco, Canadian gymnast (b. 1964)
• 1993 » Oro, Mexican wrestler (b. 1971)
• 1994 » Wilbert Harrison, American singer and guitarist (b. 1929)
• 1995 » Gorni Kramer, Italian bassist, songwriter, and bandleader (b. 1913)
• 1995 » Wilhelm Freddie, Danish painter and sculptor (b. 1909)

• 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 » Halabja chemical attack: The Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5,000 people and injuring about 10,000 people.
• April 14 » The USSSamuel B. Roberts strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will.
• August 20 » The Troubles: Eight British soldiers are killed and 28 wounded when their bus is hit by an IRA roadside bomb in Ballygawley, County Tyrone.
• October 5 » A Chilean opposition coalition defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt.
• 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.
• December 12 » The Clapham Junction rail crash kills thirty-five and injures hundreds after two collisions of three commuter trains—one of the worst train crashes in the United Kingdom.

The temperature on October 26, 1988 was between 9.1 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.