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• Karlo BAX

• Alberdina Geertruida Ordelman (81), Hengelo,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Edumondus Petrus Franciscus Zaman (85), Sluiskil
• Arend Keun (64), Yde (Vries)
• Antoon Vaarwerk (74), Groenlo,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anthonius Nijman (90)
• Cornelia Blokker (83), Baarn, Utrecht, Nederland
• Corneluis Jacobus (Niels) Potgieter (51), S.A.-Parijs
• Caroline L Kelly (87), Hay Springs, Sheridan, Nebraska, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Johanna Mense (75)
• August Uijtdehaag (90)

• 1986 » Ben Rector, American singer, songwriter and musician
• 1986 » Conor Sammon, Irish footballer
• 1987 » Ana Ivanovic, Serbian tennis player
• 1987 » Naoki Miyata, Japanese footballer
• 1988 » Conchita Wurst, Austrian singer
• 1988 » Emma Stone, American actress
• 1988 » Erik Lund, Swedish footballer
• 1989 » Aaron Hernandez, American football player († 2017)
• 1989 » Jozy Altidore, American soccer player
• 1990 » André Schürrle, German footballer

• 1978 » Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (b. 1899)
• 1984 » Gastón Suárez, Bolivian author and playwright (b. 1929)
• 1985 » Sanjeev Kumar, Indian film actor (b. 1938)
• 1991 » Gene Tierney, American actress (b. 1920)
• 1998 » Sky Low Low, Canadian wrestler (b. 1928)
• 2000 » L. Sprague de Camp, American historian and author (b. 1907)
• 2003 » Just Betzer, Danish production manager and producer (b. 1944)
• 2003 » Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer and coach (b. 1919)
• 2004 » Johnny Warren, Australian footballer, manager, and sportscaster (b. 1943)
• 2005 » Rod Donald, New Zealand lawyer and politician (b. 1957)

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. Pieter
16. Nick

1. Maria
2. Jessica
3. Linda
4. Laura
5. Sarah
6. Anne
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 14 » In the Johnson South Reef Skirmish Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in an altercation over control of one of the Spratly Islands.
• March 16 » The Troubles: Ulster loyalist militant Michael Stone attacks a Provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades. Three persons, one of them a member of PIRA are killed, and more than 60 others are wounded.
• July 6 » The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. One hundred sixty-seven oil workers are killed, making it the world's worst offshore oil disaster in terms of direct loss of life.
• September 27 » The National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and others to fight dictatorship in Myanmar.
• October 19 » The British government imposes a broadcasting ban on television and radio interviews with members of Sinn Féin and eleven Irish republican and Ulster loyalist paramilitary groups.
• December 21 » A bomb explodes on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270. This is to date the deadliest air disaster to occur in British soil.

The temperature on November 6, 1988 was between -0.1 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.