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• Maria Hendrika Willemsen († 1988)
• Katie Elizabeth Riebkes, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa († 2005)
• Tessa Carine Knockaert, Oostende

• Cornelia Vervark (68)
• Christina Roethof (91), Baarn, Utrecht, Nederland
• Charles Swift Savory (88), Victoria, B.C., Canada
• Dirk van Leur (82), Amsterdam
• Bastiaan Haange (82)
• Cornelis Johannes van Zweeden (67), Vlissingen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Cornelia Maria Leenders (91), Tegelen, Venlo
• Bep Hoskens (67), Goirle, Gemeente Goirle
• Arrien Rook (91), Vollenhove
• Charles Elmer Hartley, Klamath Falls, Klamath, Oregon, Verenigde Staten

• 1985 » Alex Pennie, Welsh keyboard player
• 1985 » Jakub Błaszczykowski, Polish footballer
• 1987 » Kenneth Medwood, Belizean-American hurdler
• 1988 » Hayato Sakamoto, Japanese baseball player
• 1988 » Nate Ebner, American football player
• 1988 » Nicolas Batum, French basketball player
• 1988 » Vanessa Hudgens, American actress and singer
• 1989 » Onew, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1989 » Pedro Roberto Silva Botelho, Brazilian footballer
• 1989 » Sam Burgess, English rugby league player

• 1984 » Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
• 1985 » Catherine Doherty, Russian-Canadian activist, founded the Madonna House Apostolate (b. 1896)
• 1985 » Roger Maris, American baseball player and coach (b. 1934)
• 1989 » Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
• 1989 » Jock Mahoney, American actor and stuntman (b. 1919)
• 1990 » Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss author and playwright (b. 1921)
• 1991 » Robert Eddison, Japanese-English actor (b. 1908)
• 1993 » Jeff Alm, American football player (b. 1968)
• 1993 » Myrna Loy, American actress (b. 1905)
• 1994 » Orval Faubus, American soldier and politician, 36th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1910)

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.
• March 16 » Iran–Contra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
• 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.
• April 14 » In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
• 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.
• October 5 » A Chilean opposition coalition defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt.

The temperature on December 14, 1988 was between 4.9 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.