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• Ramona Antonia Th M van Strijdhoven
• Roelof Jan Henderik Tiemes († 2008)

• Antonia van Es (69), Boxmeer, Land van Cuijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonia Es van (69), Boxmeer, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Christiaan Johannes (Jkhr) Stern (70), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Golverdingen (80)
• Catharina Elisabeth Haenen (65), Maasbree
• Annalena Louisa van Horn (85), Ackley, Hardin County, Iowa
• Catharina Elisabeth (Lies) Haenen (65), Maasbree
• Cornelia maria Verkooijen (80), Oos
• Bastiana Baks (95), Woudrichem, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia Golverdingen (80)

• 1983 » Brent Hayden, Canadian swimmer
• 1983 » Casey Fien, American baseball player
• 1983 » Zack Greinke, American baseball player
• 1984 » Anna Bogdanova, Russian heptathlete
• 1984 » Anouk Leblanc-Boucher, Canadian speed skater
• 1984 » José Lobatón, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1984 » Kenny Cooper, American soccer player
• 1984 » Kieran Richardson, English footballer
• 1984 » Marvin Mitchell, American football player
• 1984 » Tom Brandstater, American football player

• 1978 » Anastas Mikoyan, Armenian-Russian civil servant and politician (b. 1895)
• 1980 » Hans Asperger, Austrian physician and psychologist (b. 1906)
• 1982 » Radka Toneff, Norwegian singer-songwriter (b. 1952)
• 1983 » Joseph P. Lordi, American government official (b. 1919)
• 1984 » François Truffaut, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1932)
• 1985 » Dan White, American assassin and politician (b. 1946)
• 1986 » Lionel Murphy, Australian jurist and politician, 22nd Attorney-General of Australia (b. 1922)
• 1989 » Jean Image, Hungarian-French director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1910)
• 1990 » Dany Chamoun, Lebanese engineer and politician (b. 1934)
• 1990 » Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Indian philosopher and author (b. 1921)

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. Sylvia

• 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.
• February 7 » Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission: Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).
• July 18 » McDonald's massacre in San Ysidro, California: In a fast-food restaurant, James Oliver Huberty opens fire, killing 21 people and injuring 19 others before being shot dead by police.
• October 5 » Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space.
• October 19 » A Roman Catholic priest, Jerzy Popiełuszko, associated with the Solidarity Union, is killed by three agents of the Polish Communist internal intelligence agency.
• October 31 » Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two Sikh security guards. Riots break out in New Delhi and other cities and around 3,000 Sikhs are killed.
• December 22 » "Subway vigilante" Bernhard Goetz shoots four would-be muggers on an express train in Manhattan section of New York, United States.

The temperature on October 21, 1984 was between 7.0 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (24%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.