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• Zachary M Zwaan, Luverne, Rock County, Minnesota († 2009)
• Stephen Brett Cummock, Salt Lake City

• Antoon Koks (79), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Alida Johanna van Rumpt (64), Stelledam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Cornelis Wilhelmus (Cor) van Haastert (77), Leiden
• Berendina Remmerswaal (69), Den Haag, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Albert Stubbe (72)
• alida johanna van rumpt (64), dirksland (goeree overflakkee)
• Annemarie Monique van Campen (15), Geleen,, Limburg, Nederland
• Cornelia Petronella Kroon (78), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Nicolaas Oostdam (99), Voorhout
• Cornelia Klerks (98), Waalwijk

• 1984 » Jed Lowrie, American baseball player
• 1984 » Pablo Sebastián Álvarez, Argentinian footballer
• 1985 » Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, French tennis player
• 1985 » Luke Mitchell, Australian actor and model
• 1985 » Rooney Mara, American actress
• 1986 » Romain Grosjean, French race car driver
• 1988 » Takahiro Moriuchi, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1989 » Avi Kaplan, singer and songwriter
• 1989 » Paraskevi Papachristou, Greek triple jumper
• 1990 » Jonathan Brown, Welsh footballer

• 1983 » Felix Pappalardi, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (b. 1939)
• 1984 » Claude Provost, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1933)
• 1987 » Cecil Harmsworth King, English publisher (b. 1901)
• 1987 » Dick Shawn, American actor (b. 1923)
• 1988 » Louise Nevelson, Ukrainian-American sculptor and educator (b. 1900)
• 1990 » Ralph Abernathy, American minister and activist (b. 1936)
• 1993 » Turgut Özal, Turkish engineer and politician, 8th president of Turkey (b. 1927)
• 1994 » Roger Wolcott Sperry, American psychologist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• 1995 » Frank E. Resnik, American sergeant and businessman (b. 1928)
• 1996 » Piet Hein, Danish poet and mathematician (b. 1905)

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. Pieter
16. Nick

1. Maria
2. Jessica
3. Linda
4. Laura
5. Sarah
6. Anne
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.
• March 16 » The Troubles: Ulster loyalist militant Michael Stone attacks a Provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades. Three persons, one of them a member of PIRA are killed, and more than 60 others are wounded.
• March 17 » Eritrean War of Independence: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet.
• April 14 » In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
• May 14 » Carrollton bus collision: A drunk driver traveling the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. Twenty-seven die in the crash and ensuing fire.
• July 3 » The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus.
• November 8 » U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush is elected as the 41st president.

The temperature on April 17, 1988 was between 6.2 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.