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• Wesley Zoetbrood, Hoensbroek,6433,Heerlen,Limburg,Nederland
• Timo Lut, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Moritz Stauffenberg Von, München († 2006)
• Maurits Schenk van Stauffenberg († 2006)

• Agien Gils (91), Amsterdam
• Anna Lena de Looze (83), Koudekerke
• Annetje Hendriks Bunschoten (59), Hoorn
• Arthur Ronald (Artie) REID (43), Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
• Annigje Smit (72), Te Awamutu, Waikato, New Zealand
• Albertje Mink (87)
• Anna Lena de Looze (83), Koudekerke, Zeeland, Nederland
• Antonius Cornelis Opdam (57), Delft
• Aaltje Pera (89), Groningen
• Adrianus Vervoort (52), Simonstown

• 1987 » Pierre Boulanger, French actor
• 1987 » Tatjana Malek, German tennis player
• 1988 » Danilo Gallinari, Italian basketball player
• 1988 » Laura Slade Wiggins, American actress and singer
• 1988 » Princess Beatrice of York
• 1988 » Rinku Singh, Indian baseball player
• 1989 » Anthony Rizzo, American baseball player
• 1989 » Hannah Miley, English-Scottish swimmer
• 1989 » Ken Baumann, American actor and author
• 1989 » Prajakta Mali, Indian actress

• 1981 » Thomas McElwee, Irish republican and PIRA volunteer (b. 1957)
• 1982 » Eric Brandon, English racing driver and businessman (b. 1920)
• 1984 » Ellen Raskin, American author and illustrator (b. 1928)
• 1984 » Richard Deacon, American actor (b. 1921)
• 1985 » Louise Brooks, American actress (b. 1906)
• 1987 » Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician and physicist (b. 1903)
• 1988 » Alan Napier, English actor (b. 1903)
• 1988 » Félix Leclerc, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1914)
• 1991 » James Irwin, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1930)
• 1992 » Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Iranian religious leader and scholar (b. 1899)

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.
• March 16 » Iran–Contra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
• May 9 » New Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.
• July 3 » The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, providing the second connection between the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus.
• October 27 » Cold War: Ronald Reagan suspends construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow due to Soviet listening devices in the building structure.
• November 8 » U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush is elected as the 41st president.
• 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 August 8, 1988 was between 15.5 °C and 25.6 °C and averaged 19.9 °C. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.