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• Benoit Van Kerrebrouck († 2009)

• Cornelia Outshoorn (82), Den Haag
• Camillus Hubertus Wintmolders (87), Sint-Truiden, België
• Baukje Wuite (85)
• Abraham Jan van Noord (68), Oude-Tonge, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Adrianus Kleemans (83), Breda,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia Cremer (62), Rotterdam
• Apolonia Maria Rijsterborgh (84), Delft, ZH, Nederland
• Bernard Geutjes (72)
• Apolonia Maria Rijsterborgh (84), Delft
• bernardus bulsing (82), amsterdam

• 1987 » Erwin Hoffer, Austrian footballer
• 1987 » Korina Perkovic, German tennis player
• 1987 » Michael Baze, American jockey († 2011)
• 1987 » Wilson Kiprop, Kenyan runner
• 1988 » Brad Sinopoli, Canadian football player
• 1988 » Eliška Klučinová, Czech heptathlete
• 1988 » Eric Gryba, Canadian ice hockey defenseman
• 1988 » Roberto Bautista Agut, Spanish tennis player
• 1988 » Vasileios Pliatsikas, Greek footballer
• 1989 » Joe Haden, American football player

• 1978 » F. R. Leavis, English educator and critic (b. 1895)
• 1978 » Joe Gordon, American baseball player and manager (b. 1915)
• 1983 » Gianni Rodari, Italian journalist and author (b. 1920)
• 1983 » Pete Farndon, English bassist (The Pretenders) (b. 1952)
• 1986 » Simone de Beauvoir, French novelist and philosopher (b. 1908)
• 1990 » Olabisi Onabanjo, Nigerian politician, 3rd Governor of Ogun State (b. 1927)
• 1990 » Thurston Harris, American singer (b. 1931)
• 1992 » Irene Greenwood, Australian radio broadcaster and feminist and peace activist (b. 1898)
• 1994 » Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani chemist and scholar (b. 1897)
• 1995 » Burl Ives, American actor, folk singer, and writer (b. 1909)

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.
• February 27 » Sumgait pogrom: The Armenian community in Sumgait, Azerbaijan is targeted in a violent pogrom.
• 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 1 » A British soldier was killed in the Inglis Barracks bombing in London, England.
• November 15 » The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
• December 21 » A bomb explodes on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270. This is to date the deadliest air disaster to occur in British soil.

The temperature on April 14, 1988 was between -2.9 °C and 13.4 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 10.8 hours of sunshine (78%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.