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• Mathijs Annaars, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2011)
• Jasper Jan Haring, Blokker († 1988)
• Jasper Jan Haring, Blokker, Noord-Holland, Netherlands († 1988)

• Christina van de Roer (95), Raamsdonksveer, Nederland
• Adriana Josina Prins (66), Sliedrecht
• Berendina Klompmakers (89)
• Cornelis Bozuwa (75), Dordrecht
• Derk van der Laan (79), Middelstum, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Waeijen (67), Roermond
• Cornelis Franciscus Petrus van Beek (87)
• Alfons Maria Gommaar Huysmans (64)
• Arendje van der Knaap (85), Schoonhoven
• BEREND JAN RUITERKAMP (62), Soest

• 1986 » Daniel Preussner, German rugby player
• 1986 » Michael Lerchl, German footballer
• 1986 » Tyler Smith, American singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1987 » Marek Niit, Estonian sprinter
• 1988 » Anthony Castonzo, American football player
• 1988 » Vasilios Koutsianikoulis, Greek footballer
• 1988 » Willian, Brazilian footballer
• 1989 » Jason Heyward, American baseball player
• 1989 » Kento Ono, Japanese actor and model
• 1989 » Stefano Okaka, Italian footballer

• 1979 » Walter O'Malley, American businessman (b. 1903)
• 1980 » Jacqueline Cochran, American pilot (b. 1906)
• 1981 » Max Hoffman, Austrian-born car importer and businessman (b. 1904)
• 1985 » Clive Churchill, Australian rugby league player and coach (b. 1927)
• 1988 » Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer and poet (b. 1905)
• 1988 » M. Carl Holman, American author, educator, poet, and playwright (b. 1919)
• 1990 » Joe Mercer, English footballer and manager (b. 1914)
• 1992 » Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Iranian singer and actor (b. 1938)
• 1995 » Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942)
• 1996 » Frank Whittle, English soldier and engineer, invented the jet engine (b. 1907)

• 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 » Halabja chemical attack: The Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5,000 people and injuring about 10,000 people.
• May 4 » The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of Space Shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.
• May 8 » A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered to be the "worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history".
• May 24 » Section 28 of the United Kingdom's Local Government Act 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, is enacted.
• September 18 » The 8888 Uprising in Myanmar comes to an end.
• November 19 » Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.

The temperature on August 9, 1988 was between 13.1 °C and 23.9 °C and averaged 18.8 °C. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.