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• Laura Zuidgeest († 2019)
• Marc Josephus Guillaume Desar, Gemert († 2001)
• Raf Jansens († 1985)

• Berendina Warringa (75), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Blanche Louise Vermillion (59), Oskaloosa, Iowa
• Aleida te Wierike (88), Enter
• Baukje Lieuwes Buma (91), Bolsward, Gem. Bolsward, Friesland, Nederland
• Arie van den Heuvel (62)
• Beulah Catherine Grindle (73), Tucson-Arizona (USA)
• Anje Zaagman (87)
• Boelo Oppentocht (88), Rijswijk
• Bradley Morey * (82), Orford, Grafton County, New Hampshire, Verenigde Staten
• Anje Zaagman (87)

• 1984 » Aisling Bea, Irish comedienne and actress
• 1984 » Brandon Prust, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1984 » Hosea Gear, New Zealand rugby player
• 1984 » Levi Brown, American football player
• 1984 » Michael Ennis, Australian rugby player
• 1984 » Sharon Cherop, Kenyan long-distance runner
• 1985 » Aleksei Sokirskiy, Russian hammer thrower
• 1985 » Eddy Lover, Panamanian singer-songwriter
• 1985 » Teddy Atine-Venel, French athlete
• 1986 » Alexandra Daddario, American actress

• 1979 » Jean Monnet, French economist and politician (b. 1888)
• 1980 » Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-American painter (b. 1898)
• 1983 » Arthur Godfrey, American actor and television host (b. 1903)
• 1983 » Fred Rose, Polish-Canadian politician (b. 1907)
• 1985 » Eddie Shore, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1902)
• 1985 » Roger Sessions, American composer, critic, and educator (b. 1896)
• 1988 » Jigger Statz, American baseball player (b.1897)
• 1988 » Mickey Thompson, American race car driver (b. 1928)
• 1990 » Ernst Bacon, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1898)
• 1991 » Chris Austin, American country singer (b .1964)

1. Jan
2. Mark
3. Jeroen
4. Michael
5. Peter
6. Thomas
7. Pieter
8. Johannes
9. David
10. Bart
11. Dennis
12. Robert
13. Sander
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.
• January 1 » The first British mobile phone call is made by Michael Harrison to his father Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone.
• February 5 » Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.
• February 19 » William J. Schroeder becomes the first recipient of an artificial heart to leave the hospital.
• February 28 » The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.
• October 26 » The Australian government returns ownership of Uluru to the local Pitjantjatjara Aboriginals.
• November 19 » Police in Baling, Malaysia, lay siege to houses occupied by an Islamic sect of about 400 people led by Ibrahim Mahmud.

The temperature on March 16, 1985 was between -0.8 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (17%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.