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• Brenda Sipsma

• Frouwke Holstein (89), Haren, Groningen, Nederland
• Christianus Wilhelmus Denissen (68), Moergestel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Franciscus Adrianus Naaraat (85), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Evertje van Ginkel (83), Chilliwack, British Columbia (CDN)
• Adrianus Johannes de Jong (84), Goirle
• Cornelia Maria Agatha Margaretha van den Berg (86), Naaldwijk, Nederland
• Francisca Maria Mulders (77), Denekamp, 7591, Nederland
• Derk Jan Klunder (76)
• Anton Krsnak (97), East Patchogue, Suffolk County, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Evelyn Johnson (77), Richmond, British Columbia, Canada

• 1985 » Adam Cooney, Australian footballer
• 1985 » David Gower, Australian rugby league player
• 1985 » Téa Obreht, Serbian-American author
• 1986 » Ben Lovett, Welsh musician and songwriter
• 1986 » Cristián Zapata, Colombian footballer
• 1986 » Martin Guptill, New Zealand cricketer
• 1986 » Olivier Giroud, French footballer
• 1987 » Aida Garifullina, Russian operatic soprano
• 1988 » Eglė Staišiūnaitė, Lithuanian hurdler
• 1989 » André Weis, German footballer

• 1985 » Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist (b. 1900)
• 1985 » Simone Signoret, French actress (b. 1921)
• 1986 » Nicholas Kaldor, Hungarian-British economist (b. 1908)
• 1987 » Alfred Bester, American author and screenwriter (b. 1913)
• 1988 » Al Holbert, American race car driver (b. 1946)
• 1989 » Virgil Thomson, American composer and critic (b. 1896)
• 1990 » Alice Parizeau, Polish-Canadian journalist and author (b. 1930)
• 1990 » Patrick White, Australian novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
• 1990 » Rob Moroso, American race car driver (b. 1968)
• 1991 » Toma Zdravković, Serbian singer-songwriter (b. 1938)

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 29 » South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with one hundred other clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town.
• March 14 » In the Johnson South Reef Skirmish Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in an altercation over control of one of the Spratly Islands.
• March 25 » The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
• May 4 » The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of Space Shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.
• July 6 » The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. One hundred sixty-seven oil workers are killed, making it the world's worst offshore oil disaster in terms of direct loss of life.
• November 18 » War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law allowing the death penalty for drug traffickers.

The temperature on September 30, 1988 was between 3.0 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??.