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• Tim Bossuyt, Roeselare

• Bessie Pattisson (84), USA
• Anna Maria (Mia) Corpelijn
• Christiaan van de Woestijne (77)
• Anna 'Ina' Varnado (94), Magnolia, Pike, Mississippi, Verenigde Staten
• Antonia Anna Cornelia Mathea Wilhelmina Zr. Altrudis Volders (84), Heerlen
• Antonia Maria van Erp (85)
• Betje Jacoba Dommerholt Wolff (64), landgraaf
• Cornalia Sijke de Visser (86), Willemstad, Moerdijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert Hokkeling (78), Lutjebroek
• anton herman de wolf (67), schiedam

• 1986 » Ignazio Abate, Italian footballer
• 1986 » Nedum Onuoha, English footballer
• 1987 » Bryan Little, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1987 » Jason Day, Australian golfer
• 1987 » Kengo Kora, Japanese actor
• 1988 » Russell Westbrook, American basketball player
• 1989 » Hiroshi Kiyotake, Japanese footballer
• 1990 » Florent Manaudou, French swimmer
• 1990 » Harmeet Singh, Norwegian footballer
• 1990 » Siim-Sander Vene, Estonian basketball player

• 1981 » William Holden, American actor (b. 1918)
• 1986 » Minoru Yasui, American lawyer and activist (b. 1916)
• 1987 » Cornelis Vreeswijk, Dutch-Swedish singer-songwriter, actor, and poet (b. 1937)
• 1990 » Eve Arden, American actress and comedian (b. 1908)
• 1991 » Gabriele Tinti, Italian actor (b. 1932)
• 1993 » H. R. Haldeman, American diplomat, 4th White House Chief of Staff (b. 1926)
• 1994 » Wilma Rudolph, American sprinter and educator (b. 1940)
• 1997 » Carlos Surinach, Spanish-American composer and conductor (b. 1915)
• 1998 » Roy Hollis, English footballer (b. 1925)
• 1998 » Sally Shlaer, American mathematician and engineer (b. 1938)

• 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 28 » In R v Morgentaler the Supreme Court of Canada strikes down all anti-abortion laws.
• February 27 » Sumgait pogrom: The Armenian community in Sumgait, Azerbaijan is targeted in a violent pogrom.
• May 16 » A report by the Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
• June 27 » The Gare de Lyon rail accident in Paris, France, kills 56 people.
• August 1 » A British soldier was killed in the Inglis Barracks bombing in London, England.
• November 16 » In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan elect populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister of Pakistan.

The temperature on November 12, 1988 was between 9.3 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 14.1 mm of rain during 5.8 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.