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• Aukje Posthumus (80), Drogeham
• Adriana van Tol (81), Sassenheim, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Jans Dragstra (79), Brunssum (L
• * Franciscus Isodorus Raijmakers (73), Helmond
• Alonso Abraham Yeaney (88), New Bethlehem, Clarion Cnty, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Hillebrands (82), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Cornelis Josephus Petrus van de Sande (77), Tilburg
• Aapko Nap (68), Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia de Moor (90), Vlissingen
• Adriana Norberta Maria van Hest (88), Tilburg

• 1984 » Brenton Lawrence, Australian rugby league player
• 1985 » Alexa Ray Joel, American singer-songwriter
• 1986 » Joe Anyon, English footballer
• 1987 » Iain De Caestecker, Scottish actor
• 1987 » Juliana Huxtable, American artist
• 1987 » Yuhi Sekiguchi, Japanese race car driver
• 1988 » Ágnes Szávay, Hungarian tennis player
• 1988 » Christen Press, American footballer
• 1988 » Eric Berry, American football player
• 1989 » Kei Nishikori, Japanese tennis player

• 1976 » Ivo Van Damme, Belgian runner (b. 1954)
• 1980 » Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian author and educator (b. 1899)
• 1981 » Miroslav Krleža, Croatian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1893)
• 1986 » Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1932)
• 1986 » Harold Macmillan, English captain and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)
• 1988 » Mike Beuttler, Egyptian race car driver (b. 1940)
• 1996 » Mireille Hartuch, French singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1906)
• 1998 » Jean-Claude Forest, French author and illustrator (b. 1930)
• 1999 » Leon Radzinowicz, Polish-English criminologist and academic (b. 1906)
• 2000 » Adele Stimmel Chase, American sculptor and painter (b. 1917)

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 » Halabja chemical attack: The Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5,000 people and injuring about 10,000 people.
• April 10 » The Ojhri Camp explosion kills or injures more than 1,000 people in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan.
• June 1 » European Central Bank is founded in Brussels.
• August 8 » The first night baseball game in the history of Chicago's Wrigley Field (game was rained out in the fourth inning).
• October 19 » The British government imposes a broadcasting ban on television and radio interviews with members of Sinn Féin and eleven Irish republican and Ulster loyalist paramilitary groups.
• December 9 » The Michael Hughes Bridge in Sligo, Ireland, is officially opened.

The temperature on December 29, 1988 was between 5.7 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.