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• Marc Ragnar Sebastiaan Hoekstra, Almere
• Seliza Boerland

• Dora Matilda LAMBERT (85), Bay City,BAY,Michigan,United States,United States
• Adrianus Hendrikus Waller (67), Delft,Gemeente Delft,South Holland,Netherlands
• Christina Zegwaard (67), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Leendertsdr Kwakernaak (78), Groot-Ammers
• Adriaan Iman Bak (73), 's-Heer Arendskerke
• Arend Brands (71), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Elisabeth Anna Swennen (88), Rekem
• Adrean SYTSMA (77)
• Cornelia Adriana de Keijzer (88), Werkendam, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alcides Pinheiro (64), Guarulhos, São Paulo, Brasil

• 1985 » Emanuele Giaccherini, Italian footballer
• 1985 » Marcos Rogério Oliveira Duarte, Brazilian footballer
• 1985 » Shoko Nakagawa, Japanese actress and singer
• 1985 » Terrence Wheatley, American football player
• 1985 » Tsepo Masilela, South African footballer
• 1987 » Graham Dorrans, Scottish footballer
• 1988 » Adele, English singer-songwriter
• 1988 » Mervyn Westfield, English cricketer
• 1989 » Chris Brown, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
• 1991 » Xenofon Fetsis, Greek footballer

• 1977 » Ludwig Erhard, German economist and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1897)
• 1981 » Bobby Sands, PIRA volunteer and hunger striker (b. 1954)
• 1983 » Horst Schumann, German physician (b. 1901)
• 1983 » John Williams, English-American actor (b. 1903)
• 1985 » Donald Bailey, English engineer, designed the Bailey bridge (b. 1901)
• 1988 » Michael Shaara, American author and academic (b. 1928)
• 1993 » Irving Howe, American literary and social critic (b. 1920)
• 1994 » Mário Quintana, Brazilian poet and translator (b. 1906)
• 1995 » Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player and coach (b. 1911)
• 1999 » Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1920)

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. 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 14 » In the Johnson South Reef Skirmish Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in an altercation over control of one of the Spratly Islands.
• March 17 » A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
• June 1 » The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty comes into effect.
• September 29 » NASA launches STS-26, the first mission since the Challenger disaster.
• 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 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 May 5, 1988 was between 4.8 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 11.0 °C. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.