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• Gert van Zuijlen, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1988)

• Derk Runhard (80)
• Anna Maria Theodora SCOTT (69), Herten (Limburg) (NL)
• Alida Barendina Helena Posthuma (79), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes Verschure (87), Gorinchem
• Aaltje Slagt (82), Beemster
• Benedicte BARTHOLDY-MØLLER (71)
• Chiela Kievith (80), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Charles F Pollut (79), Palisades Park, Bergen, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten
• Carl L. Anderson (74)
• Cornelis Prins (75)

• 1985 » Andrew Brackman, American baseball player
• 1985 » Stephen Dawson, Irish footballer
• 1986 » Kaija Udras, Estonian skier
• 1986 » Martell Webster, American basketball player
• 1987 » Orlando Brown, American actor and rapper
• 1988 » Andriy Pylyavskyi, Ukrainian footballer
• 1988 » Yeng Constantino, Filipina singer and songwriter
• 1990 » Blake Leary, Australian rugby league player
• 1990 » Igor Sjunin, Estonian triple jumper
• 1990 » Lukman Haruna, Nigerian footballer

• 1980 » Francisco de Sá Carneiro, Portuguese lawyer and politician, 111th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1934)
• 1980 » Stanisława Walasiewicz, Polish-American runner (b. 1911)
• 1981 » Jeanne Block, American psychologist (b. 1923)
• 1984 » Jack Mercer, American animator, screenwriter, voice actor, and singer (b. 1910)
• 1987 » Arnold Lobel, American author and illustrator (b. 1933)
• 1987 » Rouben Mamoulian, Georgian-American director and screenwriter (b. 1897)
• 1988 » Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist and academic (b. 1899)
• 1992 » Henry Clausen, American lawyer and author (b. 1905)
• 1993 » Frank Zappa, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1940)
• 1993 » Margaret Landon, American missionary and author (b. 1903)

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. 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.
• March 14 » In the Johnson South Reef Skirmish Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in an altercation over control of one of the Spratly Islands.
• July 23 » General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.
• 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.
• August 31 » Delta Air Lines Flight 1141 crashes during takeoff from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, killing 14.
• September 8 » Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in U.S. history due to ongoing fires.
• November 19 » Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.

The temperature on December 4, 1988 was between 6.3 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 9.3 mm of rain during 7.8 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.