About the day » Monday July 11, 1988Calender converter

• Wesley Nijhoff
• Jessica Rachael Kippenbrock († 1992)
• Sytse Sander Rozema, Groningen († 1988)

• Antonius Leijtens (82), Waalwijk (Noord-Brabant, NLD)
• "Pierre" Anne d'Ussel (96), Flayat, Creuse, France
• Catharina Alida Visker (57), Nijmegen
• Althea Thayer (80), Fox Lake Il USA, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Margaretha SLOOT (78), Groningen Groningen Netherlands
• Annette Elizabeth Holland (93), Hanover, Grey, Ontario, Canada
• Djimmer Bosman (82)
• Albertje Klompmaker (78)
• Albertje Klompmaker (78), Sellingen, Vlagtwedde, Groningen, Netherlands
• Arendje Holthuis (78)

• 1986 » Raúl García, Spanish footballer
• 1986 » Ryan Jarvis, English footballer
• 1986 » Yoann Gourcuff, French footballer
• 1987 » Shigeaki Kato, Japanese singer
• 1988 » Étienne Capoue, French footballer
• 1988 » Natalie La Rose, Dutch singer, songwriter and dancer
• 1989 » Tobias Sana, Swedish footballer
• 1989 » Travis Waddell, Australian rugby league player
• 1990 » Connor Paolo, American actor
• 1990 » Mona Barthel, German tennis player

• 1979 » Claude Wagner, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1925)
• 1983 » Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian author (b. 1915)
• 1987 » Avi Ran, Israeli footballer (b. 1963)
• 1987 » Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman, American rabbi and scholar (b. 1901)
• 1989 » Laurence Olivier, English actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)
• 1991 » Mokhtar Dahari, Malaysian footballer and coach (b. 1953)
• 1994 » Gary Kildall, American computer scientist, founded Digital Research (b. 1942)
• 1998 » Panagiotis Kondylis, Greek philosopher and author (b. 1943)
• 1999 » Helen Forrest, American singer (b. 1917)
• 1999 » Jan Sloot, Dutch computer scientist and electronics technician (b. 1945)

• 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 5 » Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
• April 18 » The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II.
• June 1 » European Central Bank is founded in Brussels.
• July 6 » The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. One hundred sixty-seven oil workers are killed, making it the world's worst offshore oil disaster in terms of direct loss of life.
• September 27 » The National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and others to fight dictatorship in Myanmar.
• 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 July 11, 1988 was between 13.4 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 17.0 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 2.5 hours. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.