About the day » Thursday August 4, 1988Calender converter

• wade oyer, newark
• James David Sherren III, Charlottetown, Queens Co., Prince Edward Island, Canada († 2003)
• Melissa Angelina de Haan, Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland († 1988)

• Cornelia Jandr Bouwens (85), Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States of America
• Cornelia Bouwens (85), Grandville, Verenigde Staten
• Charles Henry Veldhuijzen (65), Amsterdam
• Anna Wilhelmina Havermans (92), Goirle, Nederland
• Arie Baars (88), Sliedrecht, Zuid-Holland, NL
• Catherine Wiersma (75), Sioux City, Sioux County, Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus Marinus Hoogvliet, "naamswijziging", voorheen Naaktgeboren (78), 's-Gravenhage (Zuid-Holland)
• anna maria rutten (77), venlo (ziekenhuis)
• Bernardus Marinus Franciscus van Nies (67), terheijden
• Akke Jans Meyer (89), Bolsward, Friesland, Nederland

• 1986 » Cicinho, Brazilian footballer
• 1986 » Leon Camier, English motorcycle racer
• 1986 » Nick Augusto, American drummer
• 1987 » Jang Keun-suk, South Korean actor and singer
• 1987 » Marreese Speights American basketball player
• 1987 » Tomoya Warabino, Japanese actor
• 1988 » Carly Foulkes, Canadian model and actress
• 1989 » Jessica Mauboy, Australian singer-songwriter and actress
• 1989 » Tomasz Kaczor, Polish sprint canoeist
• 1989 » Wang Hao, Chinese chess player

• 1977 » Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, English physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
• 1981 » Melvyn Douglas, American actor (b. 1901)
• 1982 » Bruce Goff, American architect, designed the Boston Avenue Methodist Church (b. 1904)
• 1985 » Don Whillans, English rock climber and mountaineer (b. 1933)
• 1990 » Ettore Maserati, Italian engineer and businessman (b. 1894)
• 1992 » Seichō Matsumoto, Japanese author (b. 1909)
• 1996 » Geoff Hamilton, English gardener, author, and television host (b. 1936)
• 1997 » Jeanne Calment, French super-centenarian; holds records for the world's substantiated longest-lived person (b. 1875)
• 1998 » Yury Artyukhin, Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1930)
• 1999 » Victor Mature, American actor (b. 1913)

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. Sanne
10. Samantha
11. Anna
12. Kim
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.
• April 14 » In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
• June 4 » Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500.
• August 1 » A British soldier was killed in the Inglis Barracks bombing in London, England.
• September 8 » Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in U.S. history due to ongoing fires.
• October 7 » A hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice near Alaska; the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales.
• December 7 » The 6.8 M_s  Armenian earthquake shakes the northern part of the country with a maximum MSK intensity of X (Devastating), killing 25,000–50,000 and injuring 31,000–130,000.

The temperature on August 4, 1988 was between 9.6 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.