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• Cornelis Buijs (72), Roosendaal
• Alphonsine Josephine Mathilde Leus (74), Sint-Truiden
• Bernardus Johannes van Halteren (62), Arnhem, Nederland
• Cornelis van de Kraats (66), Putten
• Anna van de Berkt (75), Laren, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Annetje Ros (79), 's Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alice Maria MINY (80), Oostrozebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique
• Albert Davis Merkley (72), Vernal, Uintah County, Utah
• Bastiaan Francinus Stehouwer (82), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• August Claes (86), Brugge,8000,West Vlaanderen,Vlaanderen,België

• 1982 » Brad Nelson, American baseball player
• 1982 » Thomas Rohregger, Austrian cyclist
• 1983 » Hanley Ramírez, Dominican baseball player
• 1983 » Lisa Dobriskey, English runner
• 1983 » Michael Chopra, English footballer
• 1984 » Dudu Aharon, Israeli singer-songwriter
• 1984 » Josh Satin, American baseball player
• 1984 » Sebastian Werle, German rugby player
• 1985 » Harry Judd, English drummer and songwriter
• 1986 » Thomas Bourgin, French motorcycle racer († 2013)

• 1972 » Andrei Tupolev, Russian engineer, designed the Tupolev Tu-95 and Tupolev Tu-104 (b. 1888)
• 1973 » Charles Atlas, Italian-American bodybuilder and model (b. 1892)
• 1973 » Irna Phillips, American screenwriter, created Guiding Light and As the World Turns (b. 1901)
• 1979 » Peggy Guggenheim, American-Italian art collector (b. 1898)
• 1982 » Jack Webb, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1920)
• 1983 » Colin Middleton, Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1910)
• 1984 » Joan Lindsay, Australian author and playwright (b. 1896)
• 1992 » Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (b. 1934)
• 1994 » Sebastian Shaw, English actor, director, and playwright (b. 1905)
• 1995 » Patric Knowles, English actor (b. 1911)

1. Mark
2. Jeroen
3. Jan
4. Peter
5. Michael
6. Martijn
7. Wouter
8. Johannes
9. Robert
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. Maaike
12. Sandra
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.
• July 1 » The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
• August 11 » "We begin bombing in five minutes": United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio.
• October 11 » Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
• 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 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 December 23, 1984 was between 2.9 °C and 5.9 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.