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• Isaac Toering, Sioux City, Woodbury County, Iowa († 2024)

• Barend Swart Wessels (64)
• Dina van de Meulenhof (80), Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Dacio Aguiar Moraes (77), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
• Bastiaantje ZWIENEN, van (74), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Clara Decock (75), Torhout
• EGBERTINA EISMA (90)
• Anneke Feddema (55), Dantumadeel
• Cornelia Theresia Christoffer (100), Callantsoog
• Adriana Stuiver (81), Wilhelminaoord
• Anna Maria de Bruin (69), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1986 » Ana Kasparian, American journalist and producer
• 1986 » Sevyn Streeter, American singer-songwriter
• 1986 » Udo Schwarz, German rugby player
• 1988 » Kaci Brown, American singer-songwriter
• 1988 » Lukas Rosenthal, German rugby player
• 1989 » Karl-August Tiirmaa, Estonian skier
• 1989 » Landon Cassill, American race car driver
• 1989 » Miina Kallas, Estonian footballer
• 1990 » Lee Addy, Ghanaian footballer
• 1990 » Pascal Stöger, Austrian footballer

• 1980 » Dore Schary, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1905)
• 1982 » Bon Maharaja, Indian guru and religious writer (b. 1901)
• 1984 » George Oppen, American poet and author (b. 1908)
• 1987 » Germaine Thyssens-Valentin, Dutch-French pianist (b. 1902)
• 1990 » Bill Cullen, American television panelist and game show host (b. 1920)
• 1990 » Cazuza, Brazilian singer and songwriter (b. 1958)
• 1993 » Rıfat Ilgaz, Turkish author, poet, and educator (b. 1911)
• 1994 » Cameron Mitchell, American actor (b. 1918)
• 1994 » Carlo Chiti, Italian engineer (b. 1924)
• 1994 » Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German general (b. 1907)

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. 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 17 » A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
• 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 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 15 » Israeli–Palestinian conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
• November 18 » War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law allowing the death penalty for drug traffickers.
• December 13 » PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat gives a speech at a UN General Assembly meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, after United States authorities refused to grant him a visa to visit UN headquarters in New York.

The temperature on July 7, 1988 was between 13.4 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 4.2 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.