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• Arie Bastiaan Gelderblom (86), Rotterdam
• Berendiena Krommendijk (87)
• Berendina Dob (65), Uithuizen, Groningen, Nederland
• Anne Marie Catharine Alphonsine Smeets (92), Meerssen, Limburg, Netherlands
• Arnoldus Rombartus van Alphen (78)
• Aaltje Benjamins (70)
• Antonia Maria Josephina EUSSEN (51), Sittard
• Arie de Bree (86), Edmonton, Canada
• Adriana Cornelia Scherff (74), ,,, Uitwijk
• Carolus Ludovicus Gerardus SPIESSENS (80), Bornem

• 1982 » Jonas Hiller, Swiss ice hockey player
• 1983 » Carlton Brewster, American football player and coach
• 1984 » Andrei Sidorenkov, Estonian footballer
• 1984 » Brad Keselowski, American race car driver
• 1984 » Peter Vanderkaay, American swimmer
• 1988 » DeMarco Murray, American football player
• 1988 » Mike Posner, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1988 » Nicolás Otamendi, Argentine footballer
• 1990 » Robert Griffin III, American football player
• 1991 » Patrick Herrmann, German footballer

• 1982 » Victor Jory, Canadian-American actor (b. 1902)
• 1983 » Eubie Blake, American pianist and composer (b. 1887)
• 1984 » Anna Anderson, Polish-American woman, who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1896)
• 1984 » Julio Cortázar, Belgian-Argentinian author and poet (b. 1914)
• 1985 » Nicholas Colasanto, American actor and director (b. 1924)
• 1989 » Thomas Bernhard, Austrian playwright and author (b. 1931)
• 1991 » Roger Patterson, American bass player (b. 1968)
• 1992 » Bep van Klaveren, Dutch boxer (b. 1907)
• 1994 » Donald Judd, American painter and sculptor (b. 1928)
• 1995 » Philip Taylor Kramer, American bass player (b. 1952)

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.
• February 27 » Sumgait pogrom: The Armenian community in Sumgait, Azerbaijan is targeted in a violent pogrom.
• March 6 » Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in Operation Flavius.
• June 1 » The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty comes into effect.
• June 19 » Pope John Paul II canonizes 117 Vietnamese Martyrs.
• September 12 » Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula two days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage.
• December 12 » The Clapham Junction rail crash kills thirty-five and injures hundreds after two collisions of three commuter trains—one of the worst train crashes in the United Kingdom.

The temperature on February 12, 1988 was between -0.4 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.