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• Michiel Bulthuis, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Michiel Bulthuis, Amsterdam
• Daan Corné Farjon, Ruinen

• Aloïs Jacobus Jozef Verhaeren (57), Turnhout (B.) Sint Jozefziekenhuis
• Bernardus Theodorus Antonius Wolf (73), Arnhem
• Everardus van der Heiden (66), Amersfoort
• Erna Henriette Lange (73), Vlissingen
• Cornelis Bakker (85), Schoorl, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Bon (83), Vinkeveen,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Heeringa (88), Grand Rapids, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• David Lyle Jr. [A] (74), Rock Hill, York County, South Carolina
• BOUKJE OSSEWAARDE (68), ZOETERMEER
• Epke Rijpstra (90), Dronrijp

• 1986 » Sarita Pérez de Tagle, Filipino actress
• 1987 » Andy Dalton, American football player
• 1987 » Jessica Dubé, Canadian figure skater
• 1987 » Makoto Ogawa, Japanese singer and actress
• 1987 » Tove Lo, Swedish singer
• 1988 » Florin Gardoș, Romanian footballer
• 1988 » Janoris Jenkins, American football player
• 1988 » Roman Van Uden, New Zealand cyclist
• 1988 » Sam Hutsby, English golfer
• 1989 » Primož Roglič, Slovenian ski jumper and cyclist

• 1980 » Giorgio Borġ Olivier, Maltese lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1911)
• 1981 » Georges Brassens, French singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1921)
• 1986 » Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor, singer, and academic (b. 1913)
• 1987 » Woody Herman, American singer, clarinet player, saxophonist, and bandleader (b. 1913)
• 1988 » Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Indian author and activist (b. 1903)
• 1993 » Lipman Bers, Latvian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1914)
• 1994 » Shlomo Goren, Israeli rabbi, general, and scholar (b. 1918)
• 1995 » Terry Southern, American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, (b. 1924)
• 1996 » Eugen Kapp, Estonian composer and educator (b. 1908)
• 1997 » Anton LaVey, American occultist, founded the Church of Satan (b. 1930)

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.
• 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.
• March 17 » Eritrean War of Independence: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet.
• April 4 » Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office.
• 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.
• May 29 » The U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
• 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 29, 1988 was between 1.8 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.