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• Seetha Inger Nagtegaal
• Pieternella Elisabeth Dingemanse, Goes

• Carola Lucille Flynn (70), Orange County, California, Verenigde Staten
• Albertus Petrus Bouwens (70), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Augusta M. E. Royer (80), Jeuk, België
• Bernhard IV Friedrich Julius Heinrich von Sachsen-Meiningen (83), Bad Krozingen, Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland
• Antje Meijers (78), Aalst (Alost), Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Antonius Schellekens (83), Boxtel
• Adriaan Leendert Neudorfer (72), Amsterdam
• Adrianus Antonius Vermeij (54), Rotterdam
• Arie Roomer (82), Leerdam, Gemeente Vijfheerenlanden, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Adrianus Johannes Stolwerk (78), Breda,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1983 » Chansi Stuckey, American football player
• 1983 » Dan Clarke, English race car driver
• 1983 » Kurt Suzuki, American baseball player
• 1983 » Marios Nicolaou, Cypriot footballer
• 1983 » Vicky Krieps, Luxembourgish actress
• 1984 » Álvaro Parente, Portuguese race car driver
• 1984 » Karolina Tymińska, Polish heptathlete
• 1984 » Lena Katina, Russian singer-songwriter
• 1985 » Shontelle, Barbadian singer-songwriter
• 1985 » Thorsten Wiedemann, German rugby player

• 1975 » Joan Whitney Payson, American businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1903)
• 1977 » José Ber Gelbard, Argentinian activist and politician (b. 1917)
• 1980 » Pyotr Masherov, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia (b. 1918)
• 1981 » Freddie Lindstrom, American baseball player and coach (b. 1905)
• 1982 » Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and conductor (b. 1932)
• 1982 » Stefanos Stefanopoulos, Greek politician, 165th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1898)
• 1988 » Zlatko Grgić, Croatian-Canadian animator, director, and screenwriter (b. 1931)
• 1989 » Graham Chapman, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1941)
• 1990 » Mārtiņš Zīverts, Latvian playwright (b. 1903)
• 1992 » Denny Hulme, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1936)

1. Mark
2. Jeroen
3. Jan
4. Peter
5. Michael
6. Martijn
7. Wouter
8. Robert
9. Johannes
10. Pieter
11. David
12. Hendrik
13. Bart
14. Thomas
15. Erik
16. Vincent

1. Linda
2. Maria
3. Jessica
4. Anna
5. Kim
6. Wendy
7. Esther
8. Johanna
9. Laura
10. Sarah
11. Sandra
12. Maaike
13. Nicole
14. Suzanne
15. Jennifer
16. Bianca

• 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 14.4 million citizens.
• June 5 » Operation Blue Star: Under orders from India's prime minister, Indira Gandhi, the Indian Army begins an invasion of the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion.
• August 1 » Commercial peat-cutters discover the preserved bog body of a man, called Lindow Man, at Lindow Moss, Cheshire, England.
• August 30 » STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
• December 3 » Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000–600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.
• December 19 » The Sino-British Joint Declaration, stating that China would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong and the United Kingdom would restore Hong Kong to China with effect from July 1, 1997 is signed in Beijing, China by Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher.
• December 20 » The Summit Tunnel fire, one of the largest transportation tunnel fires in history, burns after a freight train carrying over one million liters of gasoline derails near the town of Todmorden, England, in the Pennines.

The temperature on October 4, 1984 was between 6.0 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (72%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.