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• Jason Robert Menkveld, Mitchell (Canada)
• David von den Driesch, Heinzberg
• Tjitze Roel Sietzes Huitema, Sneek, Gem. Sneek, Friesland, Nederland († 2005)

• arnold verdellen (92), venray
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Lucassen (95), Amsterdam
• Antonette Catharina de Vries (78), Amsterdam
• Arris Dirksz van Duijvenbode (72), unbekannt
• Agnes van Zoest (80), Lith
• Anna Adriana Van Der Donk (81)
• (66), Terneuzen
• Agatha Wilhelmina Vermeij (74), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Vermeulen (70)
• Alida Geertruida Commandeur (72), Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1985 » Alcides Araújo Alves, Brazilian footballer
• 1985 » Emile Hirsch, American actor
• 1986 » Neil Wagner, South African-New Zealand cricketer
• 1987 » Andreas Beck, German footballer
• 1987 » Marco Andretti, American race car driver
• 1988 » Furdjel Narsingh, Dutch footballer
• 1989 » Holger Badstuber, German footballer
• 1989 » Marko Marin, German footballer
• 1989 » Robert Wickens, Canadian racing driver
• 1990 » Anicet Abel, Malagasy footballer

• 1975 » Ivo Andrić, Yugoslav novelist, poet, and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1976 » Ole Haugsrud, American sports executive (b. 1900)
• 1983 » Paul Citroen, German-Dutch illustrator and educator (b. 1896)
• 1990 » Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian-American psychologist and author (b. 1903)
• 1995 » Odette Hallowes, French nurse and spy (b. 1912)
• 1996 » Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish director and screenwriter (b. 1941)
• 1998 » Hans von Ohain, German-American physicist and engineer (b. 1911)
• 1998 » Judge Dread, English singer-songwriter (b. 1945)
• 1999 » Garson Kanin, American director and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 1999 » Lee Falk, American cartoonist, director, and producer (b. 1911)

• 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 6 » Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in Operation Flavius.
• June 27 » The Gare de Lyon rail accident in Paris, France, kills 56 people.
• October 5 » A Chilean opposition coalition defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt.
• November 2 » The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
• December 2 » Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.
• December 8 » A United States Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II crashes into an apartment complex in Remscheid, Germany, killing 5 people and injuring 50 others.

The temperature on March 13, 1988 was between 0.9 °C and 4.4 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 10.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.