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• Martin Joseph Fitzgerald, Southwark, London, England († 1988)
• Suzanne Christine van den Berg, Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• Antoon Nicolaas 'Paul' COOLS (84), Hasselt, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie
• Cornelis Hagendoorn (75)
• Cornelia Wielaard (80), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, NL
• Carolus Joannes Gaillard (94), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Earl Byron Putman (67), Mayfield (Fulton County) (New York)
• Driesje (Daisy) Zeutenhorst (77), Orange City, Sioux, Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia Drinkwaard (94), Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Nederland
• Elsie Johanna Meyer (77), Pleasant Valley Township, Grundy County, Iowa
• Anna Maria de Beer (69), Tilburg
• Adriana Schermers (77), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1986 » Paul Derbyshire, Italian rugby player
• 1987 » Colin Kaepernick, American football player
• 1987 » Courtney Barnett, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1987 » Felix Schütz, German ice hockey player
• 1987 » Gemma Ward, Australian model and actress
• 1987 » Kyle Seager, American baseball player
• 1987 » Ty Lawson, American basketball player
• 1988 » Jessie Loutit, Canadian rower
• 1989 » Joyce Jonathan, French singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1989 » Paula DeAnda, American singer-songwriter and actress

• 1983 » Alfredo Antonini, Italian-American conductor and composer (b. 1901)
• 1983 » Jerry Pentland, Australian fighter ace (b. 1894)
• 1987 » Mary Shane, American sportscaster and educator (b. 1945)
• 1988 » Henri van Praag, Dutch philosopher, theologian, and educator (b. 1916)
• 1989 » Dorothy Fuldheim, American journalist (b. 1893)
• 1990 » Kenan Erim, Turkish archaeologist and academic (b. 1929)
• 1990 » Mary Martin, American actress and singer (b. 1913)
• 1990 » Nusret Fişek, Turkish physician and politician, Turkish Minister of Health (b. 1914)
• 1991 » Chris Bender, American singer (b. 1972)
• 1993 » Léon Theremin, Russian physicist and engineer, invented the Theremin (b. 1895)

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.
• January 1 » The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America comes into existence, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.
• 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.
• August 17 » President of Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.
• August 31 » Delta Air Lines Flight 1141 crashes during takeoff from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, killing 14.
• December 8 » A United States Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II crashes into an apartment complex in Remscheid, Germany, killing 5 people and injuring 50 others.
• 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 November 3, 1988 was between -3.4 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 0.8 °C. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (90%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.