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

• Beatrijs Maria Elisabeth Gribling (65), Haren
• Antonia Virginia (Antonie) BEX (91), Alken (B)
• Antoinette Maria Hubertina BESSEMS (56), sittard
• Albertha Leene (90), Kampen
• Adrianus Antonius Lenaerts (70), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Maria (Enne) Odrozek (88), Brunssum
• Adrienne Justine Henriette Crooij (87), Bilthoven,de Bilt,Utrecht,Nederland
• Berend Martinus Kooima (69), Brunsbüttel,, Schleswig Holstein, Duitsland
• Bastiaan de Winter (69)
• Amandina EECKHOUT (89), Hofstade

• 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)

• 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.
• September 7 » Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first Afghan in space, returns to Earth after nine days on the Mir space station.
• September 8 » Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in U.S. history due to ongoing fires.
• October 17 » Uganda Airlines Flight 775 crashes at Rome–Fiumicino International Airport, in Rome, Italy, killing 33 people.
• October 27 » Cold War: Ronald Reagan suspends construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow due to Soviet listening devices in the building structure.
• November 15 » Israeli–Palestinian conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
• December 13 » PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat gives a speech at a UN General Assembly meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, after United States authorities refused to grant him a visa to visit UN headquarters in New York.

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.