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• Mathias Maes, Beveren-Waas († 2021)
• Erwin Hendriks Jousma, Vollenhove († 1988)
• Berendina uit de Bosch, Haarerwijk, Netherlands

• Catharina Jong (90), Tuitjenhorn, Schagen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bernardus Pieter Bastiaan Schaaij (78), Rotterdam
• Arnoldus Johannes de Croon (88), Voorst
• Aartje Beek (77), Elspeet
• * Jacoba Gertruda van der Wal (84), Eindhoven
• Antonia Catharina Maria Wescher (85), Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Harmsen (69), Bleiswijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Beryl Ann Thede (44), Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa
• Bart Petersen (83), Emmen
• Bernardus Groen (59), Amsterdam

• 1985 » Enrico Cortese, Italian footballer
• 1985 » Melissa Barrera, American television host
• 1985 » Roy O'Donovan, Irish footballer
• 1986 » Andrea Hlaváčková, Czech tennis player
• 1987 » Ari Boyland, New Zealand actor and singer
• 1987 » Jim Bakkum, Dutch singer and actor
• 1989 » Ben Sahar, Israeli footballer
• 1989 » Brenton Thwaites, Australian actor
• 1989 » Sam Gagner, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1990 » Cruze Ah-Nau, Australian rugby player

• 1979 » Dick Foran, American actor and singer (b. 1910)
• 1979 » Walter Gerlach, German physicist and academic (b. 1889)
• 1980 » Yahya Khan, Pakistani general and politician, 3rd President of Pakistan (b. 1917)
• 1982 » Anderson Bigode Herzer, Brazilian author and poet (b. 1962)
• 1985 » Nate Barragar, American football player and sergeant (b. 1906)
• 1987 » Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, Greek lawyer and politician, 163rd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1893)
• 1991 » Lưu Trọng Lư, Vietnamese poet and playwright (b. 1912)
• 1993 » Euronymous, Norwegian singer, guitarist, and producer (b. 1968)
• 1997 » Conlon Nancarrow, American-Mexican pianist and composer (b. 1912)
• 1997 » Jean-Claude Lauzon, Canadian director and screenwriter (b. 1953)

• 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 6 » Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in Operation Flavius.
• March 17 » Eritrean War of Independence: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet.
• April 25 » In Israel, John Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.
• May 14 » Carrollton bus collision: A drunk driver traveling the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. Twenty-seven die in the crash and ensuing fire.
• 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.
• December 8 » A United States Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II crashes into an apartment complex in Remscheid, Germany, killing 5 people and injuring 50 others.

The temperature on August 10, 1988 was between 15.9 °C and 26.1 °C and averaged 20.1 °C. There was 11.5 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (10%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.