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• Loes Olijve
• Klaas Barts Hummel, Leeuwarden, Gem. Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland († 1991)

• Catharina van 't Padje (70), Egmond
• Antje Jans KOENS (87), Emmen Drenthe Netherlands
• Annie Laurie ULN (75), Jefferson Co., Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Antje Ouwes de Vries (93), Opeinde
• Antoine de Becdelièvre (87), Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France
• Antje Koens (87), Emmen, Nederland
• Cornelia Stehouwer (62)
• Antje Klein (80), Emmen
• albertine elisabeth lesaar (78), almelo
• Clayton Palmer O'BRIEN (66), Calgary, Alberta, Canada

• 1986 » Pemra Özgen, Turkish tennis player
• 1987 » Aarne Nirk, Estonian hurdler
• 1987 » Felix Jones, American football player
• 1987 » Kurt Tippett, Australian footballer
• 1987 » Mark Noble, English footballer
• 1988 » Maicon Pereira de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer († 2014)
• 1988 » Tanel Kurbas, Estonian basketball player
• 1989 » Dinesh Patel, Indian baseball player
• 1989 » Lars Eller, Danish ice hockey player
• 1989 » Liam Bridcutt, English footballer

• 1984 » Lila Bell Wallace, American publisher, co-founded Reader's Digest (b. 1890)
• 1985 » Dolph Sweet, American actor (b. 1920)
• 1985 » Karl Marx, German conductor and composer (b. 1897)
• 1985 » Theodore Sturgeon, American author and critic (b. 1918)
• 1986 » Ernle Bradford, English historian and author (b. 1922)
• 1987 » Doris Stokes, English psychic and author (b. 1920)
• 1988 » Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer and screenwriter (b. 1907)
• 1990 » Luigi Nono, Italian composer and educator (b. 1924)
• 1991 » Jean Langlais, French pianist and composer (b. 1907)
• 1991 » Rudolf Serkin, Czech-Austrian pianist and educator (b. 1903)

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 20 » The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast votes to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia, triggering the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
• April 25 » In Israel, John Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.
• August 1 » A British soldier was killed in the Inglis Barracks bombing in London, England.
• 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.
• September 8 » Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in U.S. history due to ongoing fires.

The temperature on May 8, 1988 was between 14.7 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.