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• Lance Alan Kiewiet († 1988)
• Sharon Zoetbrood, Heerlen,6400,Limburg,Nederland

• Coenradus Theodorus Wessels (74), Groningen
• Derk Timmerman (76), Zwolle, Ov, The Netherlands
• Anne Jakobs Spinder (88), Berwyn, Cook County, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Cécile Angèle Aimée Baudry (87), Nantes, 44000, France
• Antonie van Ooik (75), Driebergen-Rijsenburg
• Anne Raggers (93)
• Abraham Cornelis Overbeeke (72)
• Cora Marie Case (70), Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten
• Catharina Niesing (85), Amsterdam
• Albert van Deelen (90), Heteren

• 1986 » Louis Dodds, English footballer
• 1986 » Michele Sepe, Italian rugby player
• 1987 » Aya Hirano, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1987 » Frankie Brown, Scottish footballer
• 1987 » Hassan Maatouk, Lebanese footballer
• 1987 » Taylor Price, American football player
• 1989 » Armand Traoré, French footballer
• 1989 » Mahmut Temür, Turkish footballer
• 1989 » Sione Lousi, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1990 » Rachel Klamer, Zimbabwean-Dutch triathlete

• 1979 » Brian Edmund Baker, English air marshal (b. 1896)
• 1982 » Fernando Lamas, Argentinian-American actor and director (b. 1916)
• 1982 » Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, English runner and politician, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
• 1983 » Joan Hackett, American actress (b. 1934)
• 1985 » Gordon Welchman, English-American mathematician and scholar (b. 1906)
• 1985 » Malcolm Ross, American captain, physicist, and balloonist (b. 1919)
• 1987 » Konstantinos Tsatsos, Greek scholar and politician, 2nd President of Greece (b. 1899)
• 1992 » Willy Brandt, German lawyer and politician, 4th Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• 1994 » Oscar M. Ruebhausen, American lawyer (b. 1912)
• 1995 » Christopher Keene, American conductor and educator (b. 1946)

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.
• January 1 » The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America comes into existence, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.
• February 5 » Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
• May 15 » Soviet–Afghan War: After more than eight years of fighting, the Soviet Army begins to withdraw 115,000 troops from Afghanistan.
• July 3 » The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus.
• 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.
• August 8 » The first night baseball game in the history of Chicago's Wrigley Field (game was rained out in the fourth inning).

The temperature on October 8, 1988 was between 8.5 °C and 13.4 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 7.4 mm of rain during 7.7 hours. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (39%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.