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• Jelle († 1989)
• Anoesjka Veenstra, Hoorn († 1989)

• André Francois Spruytte (78), Roeselare B-8800
• Alle Glas (81), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands
• Albert Jalink (80), Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Arie Plomp (91), Zeist
• Albert Jalink (81), Deventer
• Aagje Verloop (78), Arnhem
• Aagje Verloop (78), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Annie Out (88), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• André François Spruytte (78), Roeselare
• Aart Weijenberg (65), Nieuwegein

• 1986 » Hideaki Wakui, Japanese baseball player
• 1986 » Kathleen O'Kelly-Kennedy, Australian wheelchair basketball player
• 1987 » Dale Thomas, Australian footballer
• 1987 » Pablo Barrera, Mexican footballer
• 1987 » Sebastian Prödl, Austrian footballer
• 1988 » Allyssa DeHaan, American basketball and volleyball player
• 1988 » Paolo Tornaghi, Italian footballer
• 1988 » Thaddeus Young, American basketball player
• 1989 » Abubaker Kaki, Sudanese runner
• 1990 » Ričardas Berankis, Lithuanian tennis player

• 1985 » Hector Boyardee, Italian-American chef and businessman, founded Chef Boyardee (b. 1897)
• 1985 » Tage Erlander, Swedish lieutenant and politician, 25th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1901)
• 1986 » Assi Rahbani, Lebanese singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1923)
• 1987 » Madman Muntz, American engineer and businessman, founded the Muntz Car Company (b. 1914)
• 1988 » Bobby Dodd, American football coach (b. 1908)
• 1990 » Cedric Belfrage, English journalist and author, co-founded the National Guardian (b. 1904)
• 1990 » June Christy, American singer (b. 1925)
• 1992 » Arthur Gorrie, Australian hobby shop proprietor (b. 1922)
• 1992 » Ben Alexander, Australian rugby league player (b. 1971)
• 1992 » Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah, Bangladeshi poet, author, and playwright (b. 1956)

• 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.
• April 10 » The Ojhri Camp explosion kills or injures more than 1,000 people in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan.
• July 8 » The Island Express train travelling from Bangalore to Kanyakumari derails on the Peruman bridge and falls into Ashtamudi Lake, killing 105 passengers and injuring over 200 more.
• August 17 » President of Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.
• 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.
• November 16 » In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan elect populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister of Pakistan.
• December 9 » The Michael Hughes Bridge in Sligo, Ireland, is officially opened.

The temperature on June 21, 1988 was between 10.4 °C and 23.2 °C and averaged 17.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (11%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.