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• Amalia Gerardina Quarles van Ufford (76), Leeuwarden, Friesl
• Bibi Giesberts (2)
• Adrianus Nicolaas Staadegaard (75), Bennekom, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Helena Kocks (91), Barger-Oosterveld
• Amelia Gerardina Quarles van Ufford (76), ,,, Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands
• August Van Hove (67), Wieze
• Alida WITTER (73), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Amelia Gerardina Quarles (76), Leeuwarden
• Andriana Philippa Kuyl (85), Amsterdam
• Bartje Giesberts (4)

• 1986 » Armie Hammer, American actor
• 1986 » Gilad Shalit, Israeli soldier and hostage
• 1986 » Jeff Green, American basketball player
• 1986 » Simon Mannering, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1986 » Tommy Hanson, American baseball player († 2015)
• 1987 » Caleb Moore, American snowmobile racer († 2013)
• 1989 » César Azpilicueta, Spanish footballer
• 1989 » Cassadee Pope, American singer-songwriter
• 1989 » Jo Kwon, South Korean singer and dancer
• 1989 » Valtteri Bottas, Finnish race car driver

• 1984 » Muhammad Naguib, Egyptian general and politician, 1st President of Egypt (b. 1901)
• 1985 » Ruth Gordon, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1896)
• 1986 » Russell Lee, American photographer and journalist (b. 1903)
• 1987 » John Huston, Irish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• 1988 » Jean Marchand, Canadian union leader and politician, 43rd Secretary of State for Canada (b. 1918)
• 1988 » Max Shulman, American author and screenwriter (b. 1919)
• 1989 » John Steptoe, American author and illustrator (b. 1950)
• 1990 » Willy Vandersteen, Belgian author and illustrator (b. 1913)
• 1991 » Alekos Sakellarios, Greek director and screenwriter (b. 1913)
• 1993 » William Stafford, American poet and academic (b. 1914)

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.
• 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 10 » The Ojhri Camp explosion kills or injures more than 1,000 people in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan.
• May 16 » A report by the Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
• June 19 » Pope John Paul II canonizes 117 Vietnamese Martyrs.
• August 20 » Iran-Iraq War: A ceasefire is agreed after almost eight years of war.

The temperature on August 28, 1988 was between 15.1 °C and 26.7 °C and averaged 19.2 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.