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• Lisa Soemers, Alkmaar († 2014)
• Marina Arantes, Goiânia GO Brazilië
• Lorenzo van de Vondele, Gent (Bel)

• Antonius Hubertus Smits (79), Helmond
• Cornelia Francisca maria Josepha (Cor) Suijs (77), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bertha Godelieva CASTELEYN (81), Aalter
• Calvin Neal Hamrick [Wl] (55)
• Bryan Scott Cook (1)
• Christianus Henricus Van Terheijden (74), Roosendaal(St. Franciscusziekenhuis)
• Cornelia Vreeswijk (87), Ijsselstein, Utrecht, Nederland
• Ariosto de Souza Bezerra (82)
• Christiaan Knol (60)
• Albertus Johannes Mulder (85)

• 1985 » Cristiane, Brazilian footballer
• 1985 » Denis Onyango, Ugandan goalkeeper
• 1985 » Justine Robbeson, South African javelin thrower
• 1985 » Laura Harvey, English football coach
• 1985 » Tania Cagnotto, Italian diver
• 1985 » Tathagata Mukherjee, Indian actor
• 1986 » Adam Moffat, Scottish footballer
• 1986 » Matías Fernández, Chilean footballer
• 1986 » Thomas Brown, American football player
• 1987 » David Adams, American baseball player

• 1982 » Gordon Smiley, American race car driver (b. 1946)
• 1984 » Francis Schaeffer, American pastor, theologian, and philosopher (b. 1912)
• 1985 » Jackie Curtis, American actress and writer (b. 1947)
• 1986 » Elio de Angelis, Italian race car driver (b. 1958)
• 1986 » Theodore H. White, American historian, journalist, and author (b. 1915)
• 1989 » Johnny Green, American composer and conductor (b. 1908)
• 1989 » Luc Lacourcière, Canadian ethnographer and author (b. 1910)
• 1991 » Amadou Hampâté Bâ, Malian ethnologist and author (b. 1901)
• 1991 » Andreas Floer, German mathematician and academic (b. 1956)
• 1991 » Fritz Riess, German race car driver (b. 1922)

1. Mark
2. Michael
3. Jan
4. Kevin
5. Thomas
6. Robert
7. Jeroen
8. Peter
9. David
10. Sander
11. Bart
12. Johannes
13. Willem
14. Maarten
15. Hendrik
16. Patrick

1. Maria
2. Laura
3. Linda
4. Kim
5. Sanne
6. Jessica
7. Johanna
8. Marjolein
9. Jennifer
10. Charlotte
11. Stephanie
12. Amanda
13. Anna
14. Esther
15. Joyce
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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
• January 26 » The Ugandan government of Tito Okello is overthrown by the National Resistance Army, led by Yoweri Museveni.
• February 16 » The Soviet liner MSMikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
• February 19 » Akkaraipattu massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 80 Tamil farm workers in eastern Sri Lanka.
• March 24 » The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.
• September 7 » Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Diocese of Cape Town.
• December 23 » Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California becoming the first aircraft to fly non-stop around the world without aerial or ground refueling.

The temperature on May 15, 1986 was between 7.8 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 4.0 hours. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.