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• Bertine Ruth Toebes († 2017)

• Charlotte Adelgonde van Luxemburg (89), Luxemburg
• Anna Maria Elisabeth Starren (89)
• Charlotte Adelgonde Elise Marie Wilhelmine van Luxemburg (89), Luxemburg, Luxemburg
• Antje van Dijk (81), -
• Anna Maria Jacoba Meyer (75), Poeldijk,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Veerman (75)
• Alexander McGuffie (71), Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire
• Adrianus Gerardus den Blanken (61), Kamerik
• Antoon Peters (49)
• Ana Francisca de Souza (76)

• 1983 » Doug Kramer, Filipino basketball player
• 1983 » Gabi, Spanish footballer
• 1983 » Giuseppe De Feudis, Italian footballer
• 1983 » Joelson José Inácio, Brazilian footballer
• 1983 » Kim Hee-chul, Korean entertainer
• 1983 » Matthew Egan, Australian footballer
• 1984 » Nikolaos Mitrou, Greek footballer
• 1985 » B. J. Crombeen, American ice hockey player
• 1985 » Mario Gómez, German footballer
• 1985 » Park Chu-young, South Korean footballer

• 1978 » John D. Rockefeller III, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Asia Society (b. 1906)
• 1979 » Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (b. 1894)
• 1980 » Joseph Krumgold, American author and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 1985 » Fernando Pereira, Dutch photographer (b. 1950)
• 1986 » Tadeusz Piotrowski, Polish mountaineer and author (b. 1940)
• 1987 » John Hammond, American record producer, critic, and activist (b. 1910)
• 1989 » Mel Blanc, American voice actor (b. 1908)
• 1993 » Ruth Krauss, American author and poet (b. 1901)
• 1993 » Sam Rolfe, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1924)
• 1995 » Mehmet Ali Aybar, Turkish lawyer and politician (b. 1908)

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 4 » The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for HIV infection, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.
• May 13 » Police bombed MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia, killing six adults and five children, and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
• August 22 » British Airtours Flight 28M suffers an engine fire during takeoff at Manchester Airport. The pilots abort but due to inefficient evacuation procedures 55 people are killed, mostly from smoke inhalation.
• October 3 » The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight.
• November 13 » The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts and melts a glacier, causing a lahar (volcanic mudslide) that buries Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people.
• December 16 » Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti, who assumes leadership of New York's Gambino crime family.

The temperature on July 10, 1985 was between 9.7 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.