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• Karina Annette van Loenen († 1988)
• Richard Marc Berrington, Hartbeespoortdam (Zuid Afrika)

• Baarthout Jongejan (63), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Coulston R. Henry (71), Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania
• Chieltje Burgerhout (71), Leiden
• Catharina Henriëtta HÖWELER (95), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertha Leene (90), Kampen
• Albert Sipkes de Schiffart (84), Rhenen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Berend Hoving (57), Alphen aan de Rijn, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertje Rooske (81), -
• Adrianus Kalshoven (70)
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Vis (83), Wateringen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1984 » Ivet Lalova, Bulgarian sprinter
• 1984 » Simon Pagenaud, French race car driver
• 1985 » Henrique Sereno, Portuguese footballer
• 1985 » Oliver Sin, Hungarian painter
• 1986 » Ahmed Hamada, Egyptian race car driver
• 1986 » Kevin Anderson, South African tennis player
• 1988 » Taeyang, South Korean singer
• 1990 » Dimitri Daeseleire, Belgian footballer
• 1990 » Josh Starling, Australian rugby league player
• 1990 » Yuya Osako, Japanese footballer

• 1980 » Victims of Mount St. Helens eruption:
• 1981 » Arthur O'Connell, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1981 » William Saroyan, American novelist, playwright, and short story writer (b. 1908)
• 1987 » Mahdi Amel, Lebanese journalist, poet, and academic (b. 1936)
• 1989 » Dorothy Ruth, American horse breeder and author (b. 1921)
• 1990 » Jill Ireland, English actress (b. 1936)
• 1995 » Alexander Godunov, Russian-American ballet dancer and actor (b. 1949)
• 1995 » Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty, Irish ufologist and historian (b. 1911)
• 1995 » Elisha Cook, Jr., American actor (b. 1903)
• 1995 » Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (b. 1933)

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. 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.
• February 6 » Michael Jordan makes his signature slam dunk from the free throw line inspiring Air Jordan and the Jumpman logo.
• March 25 » The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
• April 4 » Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office.
• April 10 » The Ojhri Camp explosion kills or injures more than 1,000 people in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan.
• October 7 » A hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice near Alaska; the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales.

The temperature on May 18, 1988 was between 7.4 °C and 13.4 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (11%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.