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• Vincent Elzo van den Ouden
• Johann Hirschmann, Den Haag

• Christina Louise Elisabeth Beverwijk (32), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bernardus Petrus Stephanie de Koeijer (77), Terneuzen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Catharina Elisabeth Jeuken (85), Brunssum, Limburg, Nederland
• Clifton Wolfe (93)
• Christina Hendrika Heij (76), Heerlen, Limburg, Netherlands
• Clarence Eugene Stewart (61), Washington, United States
• Antoine Désiré Paulissen (71), Hasselt, België
• Antoine Paulissen (71), Hasselt (B)
• Augustinus Henricus Weesie (64), De Meern, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Maria Heldring (85), Amstelveen, North Holland, Netherlands

• 1960 » Angélique Kidjo, Beninese singer-songwriter, activist and actress
• 1960 » Anna Bligh, Australian politician, 37th Premier of Queensland
• 1960 » Kyle Gass, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor
• 1962 » Vanessa Lawrence, English geographer and civil servant
• 1963 » Jacques Lacombe, Canadian organist and conductor
• 1971 » Howard Webb, English footballer and referee
• 1974 » David Mitchell, British comedian
• 1977 » Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
• 1983 » Tito Muñoz, American conductor and academic
• 1988 » Jérémy Stravius, French swimmer; winner of five gold medals in Olympic and world championship competitions.

• 1974 » Carl Spaatz, American World War II general; commander of the Strategic Air Forces in Europe (b. 1891)
• 1984 » Ernest Tidyman, American author and screenwriter; Academy Award winner for The French Connection (b. 1928)
• 1986 » Raymond Loewy, French-American industrial designer (b. 1893)
• 1989 » Frank Bell, English linguist and academic (b. 1916)
• 1991 » Constance Stokes, Australian painter (b. 1906)
• 1993 » Léo Ferré, Monacan singer-songwriter, pianist, and poet (b. 1916)
• 1998 » Richard McDonald, American businessman, co-founded McDonald's (b. 1909)
• 2000 » Pepo, Chilean cartoonist; creator of Condorito (b. 1911)
• 2000 » William Roscoe Estep, American historian and academic (b. 1920)
• 2001 » Guy de Lussigny, French painter (b. 1929)

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 25 » The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
• May 4 » The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of Space Shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.
• 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.
• July 31 » Thirty-two people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Penang, Malaysia.
• October 12 » Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down execution-style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.
• December 12 » The Clapham Junction rail crash kills thirty-five and injures hundreds after two collisions of three commuter trains—one of the worst train crashes in the United Kingdom.

The temperature on July 14, 1988 was between 12.9 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (10%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.