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• Hendrik Bernard Johan Veerbeek
• franciscus j.c.m. (frank) metsemakers, helden-dorp
• Chelsea Dawn Schoorlemmer, Spirit River, Alberta, Canada († 1989)

• Alberdina Hofstee (91)
• Cornelia Gijsbertha Eduarda van der Helm (58), Rotterdam
• Arnoldus Hermanus Saedt (66), Alkmaar
• Cornelis Johannes Antonius Smulders (77)
• Aleida Susanna Steggink (69), Enschede
• Albertje Hesselink (84), Emmen, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Albert Stokkink (71)
• Charles Marion Darrow (77), Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah
• Dirk Oosterhuis (98), Wormerveer,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Schuld (83)

• 1986 » Adrian Zaugg, South African race car driver
• 1986 » Alexz Johnson, Canadian actress and singer-songwriter
• 1986 » Suhas Gopinath, Indian businessman
• 1986 » Szymon Pawłowski, Polish footballer
• 1987 » Artur Jędrzejczyk, Polish footballer
• 1987 » Laura Geitz, Australian netball player
• 1987 » Tim Breukers, Dutch footballer
• 1988 » David Mead, Papua New Guinean rugby league player
• 1988 » Dez Bryant, American football player
• 1988 » Nathan Ross, Australian rugby league player

• 1982 » Burhan Felek, Turkish lawyer and journalist (b. 1889)
• 1982 » Gil Whitney, American journalist (b. 1940)
• 1984 » Ümit Yaşar Oğuzcan, Turkish poet and author (b. 1926)
• 1986 » Kurt Hirsch, German-English mathematician and academic (b. 1906)
• 1988 » Kleanthis Vikelidis, Greek footballer and manager (b. 1916)
• 1992 » George Klein, Canadian engineer, invented the motorized wheelchair (b. 1904)
• 1994 » Sam Francis, American soldier and painter (b. 1923)
• 1995 » Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher and scholar (b. 1925)
• 1995 » Paul Eddington, English actor (b. 1927)
• 1995 » Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli general and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1922)

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. Sanne
10. Samantha
11. Anna
12. Kim
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 13 » Lee Teng-hui becomes the first native Taiwanese President of the Republic of China.
• March 6 » Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in Operation Flavius.
• April 14 » The USSSamuel B. Roberts strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will.
• August 17 » President of Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.
• August 21 » The 6.9 M_w  Nepal earthquake shakes the Nepal–India border with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 709–1,450 people killed and thousands injured.
• 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 4, 1988 was between -3.1 °C and 4.8 °C and averaged 0.4 °C. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (90%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.