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• Sarah Deforche, Izegem, België († 2011)

• Alice Jacqueline Hortense Julie Aurelie DE STUERS (93), Vorden Gelderland Netherlands
• Cornelia Corstina van Gelderen (92), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Casimir Maxime Etienne Lucien STOCANNE (91), Sedan,08200,Ardennes,Champagne-Ardenne,FRANCE
• Cornelia Corstina van Gelderen (92), Haarlem
• Adriaan Peter de Bruijn (68), Gennep, Limburg, The Netherlands
• Andreas Adrianus Hubertus Alsemgeest (73), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Bets Zwartje(n)s (85), Amsterdam, NH, Nederland
• "Friederike" Amatha Clementine Elisabeth Huberta Maria von Fürstenberg (78), Schloss Höllinghofen, Voßwinkel, Arnsberg, Allemagne
• Arie van Vliet (21), Delft
• Adriana Johanna van 't Riet (83), Warmenhuizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1986 » Saori Kimura, Japanese volleyball player
• 1986 » Sotiris Balafas, Greek footballer
• 1987 » Anaïs Lameche, French-Swedish singer
• 1987 » Nick Driebergen, Dutch swimmer
• 1987 » Nico Hülkenberg, German race car driver
• 1987 » Richard Stearman, English footballer
• 1988 » Hoodie Allen, American rapper
• 1988 » Kirk Cousins, American football player
• 1988 » Veronica Roth, American author
• 1989 » Romeo Miller, American basketball player, rapper, actor

• 1976 » Alastair Sim, Scottish-English actor (b. 1900)
• 1977 » Aleksander Kreek, Estonian shot putter and discus thrower (b. 1914)
• 1977 » Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1890)
• 1980 » Otto Frank, German-Swiss businessman, father of Anne Frank (b. 1889)
• 1981 » Jessie Matthews, English actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1907)
• 1982 » August Neo, Estonian wrestler (b. 1908)
• 1986 » Hermione Baddeley, English actress (b. 1906)
• 1993 » Utpal Dutt, Bangladeshi actor, director, and playwright (b. 1929)
• 1994 » Linus Pauling, American chemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• 1995 » Pierre Schaeffer, French composer and musicologist (b. 1910)

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. Johanna
7. Sarah
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.
• February 5 » Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
• March 14 » In the Johnson South Reef Skirmish Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in an altercation over control of one of the Spratly Islands.
• May 4 » The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of Space Shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.
• June 1 » European Central Bank is founded in Brussels.
• 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.
• December 2 » Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.

The temperature on August 19, 1988 was between 15.1 °C and 22.5 °C and averaged 18.7 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.