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• Diane BartheläA, Suresnes 92 († 2013)
• Brett Vanherck, Bornem († 2009)
• Matthew Fernandez, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, Verenigde Staten († 2009)

• Antonius Marinus Doggen (71), Roosendaal en Nispen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• * Godefridus Hubertus (Fried) Bouwmans (66), Deurne
• Anna Jacoba Smallegange (87), Ellewoutsdijk
• Antoinette Johanna Arnolda (Netty) Dammerman (80), Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arnoldus Teurlings (43), Hoogeloon, Hapert en Casteren
• Antonius Gerardus Marie Cremers (44), Broeksittard, Sittard-Geleen
• Amelia Edwina Virginia Lenore Lenore Irvine (83), Lafayette, Contra Costa, California, United States of America
• Arloine Dawn 'Arlie' Corbin (70), Hyattsville, Prince George's, Maryland, Verenigde Staten
• Antonius Gerardus Cornelus Konings (68), Breda,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Cornelis Willems (84)

• 1985 » Ryan Hamilton, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 » Sylvain Marveaux, French footballer
• 1986 » Tom Heaton, English footballer
• 1988 » Blake Ayshford, Australian rugby league player
• 1988 » Chris Tillman, American baseball pitcher
• 1988 » Steven Defour, Belgian footballer
• 1989 » Darren Nicholls, Australian rugby league player
• 1990 » Emma Watson, English actress
• 1991 » Daiki Arioka, Japanese idol, singer, and actor
• 1991 » Javier Fernández López, Spanish figure skater

• 1980 » Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1980 » Raymond Bailey, American actor and soldier (b. 1904)
• 1982 » Arthur Lowe, English actor (b. 1915)
• 1984 » Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedian and magician (b. 1921)
• 1986 » Jean Genet, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1910)
• 1988 » Kenneth Williams, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 1989 » Hu Yaobang, Chinese soldier and politician, former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b. 1915)
• 1990 » Greta Garbo, Swedish-American actress (b. 1905)
• 1993 » John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geophysicist and geologist (b. 1908)
• 1993 » Leslie Charteris, English author and screenwriter (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.
• February 29 » South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with one hundred other clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town.
• May 4 » The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of Space Shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.
• June 4 » Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500.
• August 20 » The Troubles: Eight British soldiers are killed and 28 wounded when their bus is hit by an IRA roadside bomb in Ballygawley, County Tyrone.
• September 27 » The National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and others to fight dictatorship in Myanmar.
• November 19 » Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.

The temperature on April 15, 1988 was between 6.6 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (58%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.