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• Mark Hobers, Emmen
• N.N. Slothouber, Dedemsvaart, Overijssel, Nederland († 1988)

• Antonius Cornelis Lakerveld (68), Haastrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• de Geus (74), Warmenhuizen
• Alice Felicité Leonie FERGUSON (78), Santa Cruz California U.S.A
• Arthur Benjamin Van Zee (68)
• Asrianus Bouman (71)
• Christiaan Gijsbertus Hubeek (55), ,,, Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
• Andreas Hubert Pustjes (85)
• Antoine Leon DELABIE (68), Kortrijk
• Aaltje Hendriks (83), Amsterdam
• Carl Henry Tolonen (80), Clatsop, Oregon, Verenigde Staten

• 1987 » Allison Weiss, American singer-songwriter
• 1987 » Brandon Hardesty, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1987 » Massimiliano Pesenti, Italian footballer
• 1988 » Allison Williams, American actress and singer
• 1988 » Anderson, Brazilian footballer
• 1988 » Petteri Koponen, Finnish basketball player
• 1989 » Dong Dong, Chinese trampolinist
• 1989 » Josh Reynolds, Australian rugby league player
• 1989 » Nastassia Mironchyk-Ivanova, Belarusian long jumper
• 1989 » Ryan Bailey, American sprinter

• 1980 » Markus Höttinger, Austrian racing driver (b. 1956)
• 1983 » Gerry Hitchens, English footballer (b. 1934)
• 1983 » Theodore Stephanides, Greek physician, author, and poet (b. 1896)
• 1984 » Ralph Kirkpatrick, American harp player and musicologist (b. 1911)
• 1988 » Jean Gascon, Canadian actor and director (b. 1920)
• 1992 » Daniel Pollock, Australian actor (b. 1968)
• 1992 » Feza Gürsey, Turkish mathematician and physicist (b. 1921)
• 1992 » Maurice Sauvé, Canadian economist and politician (b. 1923)
• 1993 » Wallace Stegner, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1909)
• 1996 » Leila Mackinlay, English author and educator (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. Johanna
7. Sarah
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.
• June 12 » Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 46, a McDonnell Douglas MD-81, crashes short of the runway at Libertador General José de San Martín Airport, killing all 22 people on board.
• June 19 » Pope John Paul II canonizes 117 Vietnamese Martyrs.
• August 17 » President of Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.
• November 2 » The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
• December 13 » PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat gives a speech at a UN General Assembly meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, after United States authorities refused to grant him a visa to visit UN headquarters in New York.

The temperature on April 13, 1988 was between 0.4 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.