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• NAOMI MOSTERD, ARNHEM († 1988)

• Antonie Dat (86), Deventer
• Annigje Metselaar (85)
• Adrianus Jacobs (77), Roosendaal
• Aubrey Lee Snell (90), Euless, Tarrant, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Albertus Marinus Vaarkamp (74)
• Albertus Faber (72), Amsterdam
• Blanche Bonnie Marie Neff (100), Baltimore, Fairfield Co.Ohio
• Aubrey Snell (90), Euless, Tarrant, Texas, United States of America
• Anna Catharina Lippold (83), Zwartemeer, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adriana Pieternella de Vin (93)

• 1986 » Billy Butler, American baseball player
• 1986 » Maurice Edu, American soccer player
• 1987 » Brett Deledio, Australian footballer
• 1987 » Danny Guthrie, English footballer
• 1987 » Ivan Tričkovski, Macedonian footballer
• 1987 » Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, English model and actress
• 1987 » Samantha Jade, Australian singer-songwriter and actress
• 1988 » Alexander Hauck, South African-German rugby player
• 1988 » Andre Frolov, Estonian footballer
• 1989 » Jessica Jung, Korean American singer, songwriter, actress, and fashion designer

• 1974 » Marcel Pagnol, French author, playwright, and director (b. 1895)
• 1986 » Marcel Dassault, French businessman, founded Dassault Aviation (b. 1892)
• 1988 » Oktay Rıfat Horozcu, Turkish poet and playwright (b. 1914)
• 1988 » Pierre Desproges, French journalist and actor (b. 1939)
• 1995 » Arturo Frondizi, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Argentina (b. 1908)
• 1996 » Bernard Edwards, American bass player and producer (b. 1952)
• 1996 » Brook Berringer, American football player (b. 1973)
• 1997 » Edward Barker, English cartoonist (b. 1950)
• 1998 » Terry Sanford, American lieutenant and politician, 65th Governor of North Carolina (b. 1917)
• 2002 » Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian ethnographer and explorer (b. 1914)

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.
• January 1 » The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America comes into existence, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.
• 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.
• June 19 » Pope John Paul II canonizes 117 Vietnamese Martyrs.
• August 21 » The 6.9 M_w  Nepal earthquake shakes the Nepal–India border with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 709–1,450 people killed and thousands injured.
• October 17 » Uganda Airlines Flight 775 crashes at Rome–Fiumicino International Airport, in Rome, Italy, killing 33 people.
• October 19 » The British government imposes a broadcasting ban on television and radio interviews with members of Sinn Féin and eleven Irish republican and Ulster loyalist paramilitary groups.

The temperature on April 18, 1988 was between 5.3 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.