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• Jos Jonk († 1988)

• Catharina Johanna van der Zande (75), Bergen op Zoom
• Catharina van der Leek (79), San Bernardino, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia Maria van der Sman (78), Delft, Nederland
• Anne Klooster (85), Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Antina Clasina Huizinga (66), Smilde, Midden-Drenthe, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anne Klooster (85), Kalamazoo, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Catharina Bos (84), Warffum
• * Justina Unrau (85)
• Antonie van den Hoven (46)
• Bertha Ludell Broom (77), Coweta Co

• 1985 » Anna-Lena Grönefeld, German tennis player
• 1985 » Leon Botha, South African painter and DJ († 2011)
• 1987 » Luisa Zissman, English businesswoman
• 1987 » Mollie King, English singer-songwriter and model
• 1988 » Kimberley Busteed, Australian model
• 1988 » Matt Bartkowski, American ice hockey defenseman
• 1989 » Federico Erba, Italian footballer
• 1989 » Paweł Fajdek, Polish hammer thrower
• 1990 » Evan Spiegel, American Internet entrepreneur
• 1990 » Zac Farro, American singer and drummer

• 1973 » Maurice René Fréchet, French mathematician and academic (b. 1878)
• 1981 » Leslie Averill, New Zealand doctor and soldier (b. 1897)
• 1989 » Dik Browne, American cartoonist (b. 1917)
• 1990 » Stiv Bators, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1949)
• 1992 » Carl Stotz, American businessman, founded Little League Baseball (b. 1910)
• 1993 » Bernard Evslin, American writer (b. 1922)
• 1994 » Derek Leckenby, English musician (b. 1943)
• 1997 » Ronnie Lane, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1946)
• 1998 » Josephine Hutchinson, American actress (b. 1903)
• 2002 » Fernando Belaúnde Terry, Peruvian architect and politician, 42nd President of Peru (b. 1912)

• 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.
• February 27 » Sumgait pogrom: The Armenian community in Sumgait, Azerbaijan is targeted in a violent pogrom.
• March 16 » Iran–Contra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
• May 4 » The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of Space Shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.
• June 4 » Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500.
• September 12 » Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula two days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage.
• November 2 » The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.

The temperature on June 4, 1988 was between 9.3 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 7.4 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (14%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.