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• Roel Antonius Somers, Boekel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Maarten René de Vos, Assen († 1985)

• Arie van Maurik (72), Gorinchem
• Antonius Petrus UijtdeHaag (83)
• Adriana Antonia van den Boer (66), Gilze en Rijen
• * Frederik Hendrik Vermaat (71), Rotterdam
• Catharina van Zetten (76), Utrecht
• Adriana van Duivewaarde (94), Netherlands
• Antonius Petrus Johannes Wolf (62), Nijmegen
• Angelina van Boxel (71), Breda,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria DELRUE (83), Moeskroen, Hainaut, Belgique
• Antje Hollenga (91), Tiel, Nederland

• 1984 » Akseli Kokkonen, Norwegian ski jumper
• 1984 » Aníbal Sánchez, American baseball player
• 1984 » Lotta Schelin, Swedish footballer
• 1985 » Asami Abe, Japanese singer and actress
• 1985 » Braydon Coburn, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1985 » Brett Stewart, Australian rugby league player
• 1985 » Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, Russian footballer
• 1985 » Thiago Neves, Brazilian footballer
• 1985 » Vladislav Kulik, Ukrainian-Russian footballer
• 1986 » Yovani Gallardo, American baseball player

• 1977 » John Dickson Carr, American author and playwright (b. 1905)
• 1980 » George Tobias, American actor (b. 1901)
• 1985 » Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., American politician and diplomat, 3rd United States Ambassador to the United Nations (b. 1902)
• 1985 » J. Pat O'Malley, English-American actor and singer (b. 1904)
• 1985 » Ray Ellington, English singer and drummer (b. 1916)
• 1986 » Jacques Plante, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1929)
• 1987 » Bill Holman, American cartoonist (b. 1903)
• 1987 » Joan Greenwood, English actress (b. 1921)
• 1989 » Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
• 1992 » S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-American linguist and politician (b. 1906)

1. Jan
2. Mark
3. Jeroen
4. Michael
5. Peter
6. Thomas
7. Pieter
8. Johannes
9. David
10. Bart
11. Dennis
12. Sander
13. Robert
14. Kevin
15. Paul
16. Tim

1. Maria
2. Linda
3. Kim
4. Laura
5. Jessica
6. Johanna
7. Anna
8. Stephanie
9. Charlotte
10. Sarah
11. Amanda
12. Esther
13. Judith
14. Anne
15. Nicole
16. Saskia

• 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 14.5 million citizens.
• March 3 » A magnitude 8.3 earthquake strikes the Valparaíso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a million people homeless.
• March 17 » Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles murder spree.
• April 23 » Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months.
• August 23 » Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
• September 1 » A joint American–French expedition locates the wreckage of the RMSTitanic.
• November 20 » Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.

The temperature on February 27, 1985 was between -0.3 °C and 2.9 °C and averaged 1.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.