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• Michel van der Veek, Coevorden, Drenthe, Nederland († 1990)
• Lennart Boudewijn Bonke, Rotterdam, Provincie Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1990)
• Isabel Louise Cia Ceres van der Velde

• Benedito Lazaro Viviani (58), Araraquara, São Paulo, Brasil
• Beecher Horton Barber (75), Mount Pleasant, Maury, Tennessee, United States of America
• Annie Klasine Bloemhoff (78), Bakkeveen
• Agnete Ude Hansen (85)
• Anna Cousement (67), Gent (B)
• Cornelia Johanna van Loon (82), Schaaik, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Eduards Hollander (88), Bolsward, Friesland, Nederland
• Corrie van den Weijer (47), Eindhoven
• Ataliba Monteiro de Carvalho (93), Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brasil
• Benjamin Frank (75), Meppel. The Netherlands

• 1985 » Bryson Goodwin, Australian rugby league player
• 1985 » Lars Boom, Dutch cyclist
• 1986 » Caity Lotz, American actress
• 1986 » Domenico Criscito, Italian footballer
• 1986 » Ellie Goulding, English singer-songwriter and producer
• 1986 » Gianni Zuiverloon, Dutch footballer
• 1989 » Kateřina Vaňková, Czech tennis player
• 1989 » Ryan Sheckler, American skateboarder and entrepreneur
• 1990 » Bruno Henrique Pinto, Brazilian footballer
• 1990 » Joe Root, English cricketer

• 1982 » Alberto Vargas, Peruvian-American painter and illustrator (b. 1896)
• 1983 » Violette Cordery, English race car driver (b. 1900)
• 1986 » Era Bell Thompson, American journalist (b. 1905)
• 1988 » Isamu Noguchi, American sculptor and landscaper (b. 1904)
• 1988 » Yuli Daniel, Russian author and poet (b. 1925)
• 1990 » Raghuvir Sahay, Indian author, poet, and critic (b. 1929)
• 1992 » Romeo Muller, American actor, screenwriter, for screenplays like the 1964, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (TV special) (b. 1928)
• 1993 » İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil, Turkish lawyer and politician, 20th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1908)
• 1993 » Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian-French physicist and academic (b. 1907)
• 1993 » Irving "Swifty" Lazar, American talent agent (b. 1907)

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. Jessica
2. Maria
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 13 » Lee Teng-hui becomes the first native Taiwanese President of the Republic of China.
• February 20 » The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast votes to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia, triggering the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
• March 14 » In the Johnson South Reef Skirmish Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in an altercation over control of one of the Spratly Islands.
• April 28 » Near Maui, Hawaii, flight attendant Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing is blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243, a Boeing 737, and falls to her death when part of the plane's fuselage rips open in mid-flight.
• July 3 » United States Navy warship USSVincennes shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
• August 8 » The 8888 Uprising begins in Rangoon (Yangon), Burma (Myanmar). Led by students, hundreds of thousands join in nationwide protests against the one-party regime. On September 18, the demonstrations end in a military crackdown, killing thousands.

The temperature on December 30, 1988 was between 4.8 °C and 6.6 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.