About the day » Thursday July 21, 1988Calender converter

• Mark van Eijk, Rotterdam
• Maikel Sep, Geleen, Limburg (Nederland) († 2012)

• Andreas Marinus van Harmelen (81), Vlaardingen
• Alice Laura Lee Beaty (88), Talmo, Ga
• Anna Petronella van den Houdt (77)
• Catharina Buijsman (83), Bergen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cato Gabriels (68), Zwijndrecht
• Cornelia Posthumus (77), Assen, Drenthe, Nederland
• * Annigje Leentje van Vliet (91), Bleskensgraaf
• Aart van Eck (70), Lexmond (Zederik), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Dijkman (63)
• Bertil Olof Hansson (31), Halmstad, Hallands län

• 1986 » Anthony Annan, Ghanaian footballer
• 1986 » Jason Thompson, American basketball player
• 1986 » Rebecca Ferguson, American-English singer-songwriter
• 1987 » Bilel Mohsni, French footballer
• 1987 » Jesús Zavala, Mexican footballer
• 1988 » Chris Mitchell, Scottish footballer († 2016)
• 1988 » DeAndre Jordan, American basketball player
• 1988 » KB, American rapper
• 1989 » Juno Temple, English actress
• 1989 » Marco Fabián, Mexican footballer

• 1977 » Lee Miller, American model and photographer (b. 1907)
• 1982 » Dave Garroway, American journalist and actor (b. 1913)
• 1991 » Paul Warwick, English race car driver (b. 1969)
• 1994 » Marijac, French author and illustrator (b. 1908)
• 1997 » Olaf Kopvillem, Estonian-Canadian conductor and composer (b. 1926)
• 1998 » Alan Shepard, American admiral, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1923)
• 1998 » Robert Young, American actor and singer (b. 1907)
• 2000 » Marc Reisner, American environmentalist and author (b. 1948)
• 2002 » Esphyr Slobodkina, Russian-American author and illustrator (b. 1908)
• 2003 » John Davies, English-New Zealand runner and coach (b. 1938)

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. Jessica
2. Maria
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.
• March 16 » Halabja chemical attack: The Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5,000 people and injuring about 10,000 people.
• April 14 » The USSSamuel B. Roberts strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will.
• May 8 » A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered to be the "worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history".
• August 20 » The Troubles: Eight British soldiers are killed and 28 wounded when their bus is hit by an IRA roadside bomb in Ballygawley, County Tyrone.
• October 17 » Uganda Airlines Flight 775 crashes at Rome–Fiumicino International Airport, in Rome, Italy, killing 33 people.
• November 2 » The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.

The temperature on July 21, 1988 was between 15.0 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 17.6 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 4.1 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (6%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.