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• Koen de KONING († 2001)
• Ann-Laure Decadt, Roeselare († 2017)

• Charles Maurits Polack (80), Noordwijk aan Zee
• Bernhard Jakob Fidom (73)
• Archibald aka Archi Keillor (90), St. Arnaud Victoria Australia
• Bernardina Hendrika Petronella Holleman (60), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bernhard Jacob Fidom (73)
• Agnes van Bladel (90), Eindhoven
• Antonius Lambertus Leo Ceulemans (76), Stevoort, Belgë
• Cornelia Willems Schol (69)
• Adrianus Hendrikus Waterschoot (74), Bladel
• Arie Bos (66), Perpignan Frankrijk

• 1984 » Alexi Casilla, Dominican baseball player
• 1984 » Matt Gilroy, American ice hockey player
• 1985 » David Mundy, Australian footballer
• 1985 » Harley Morenstein, Canadian actor and YouTube personality
• 1985 » John Francis Daley, American actor and screenwriter
• 1986 » Osric Chau, Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1987 » Niall McGinn, Irish footballer
• 1987 » Nicola Benedetti, Scottish violinist
• 1988 » Julianne Hough, American singer-songwriter, actress, and dancer
• 1988 » Stephen Strasburg, American baseball player

• 1976 » Joseph Rochefort, American captain and cryptanalyst (b. 1900)
• 1977 » Gary Kellgren, American record producer, co-founded Record Plant (b. 1939)
• 1980 » Maria Martinez, San Ildefonso Pueblo (Native American) potter (b. 1887)
• 1981 » Kostas Choumis, Greek-Romanian footballer (b. 1913)
• 1983 » Frank Reynolds, American soldier and journalist (b. 1923)
• 1987 » Richard Egan, American soldier and actor (b. 1921)
• 1989 » Forrest H. Anderson, American judge and politician, 17th Governor of Montana (b. 1913)
• 1990 » Herbert Turner Jenkins, American police officer (b. 1907)
• 1993 » Vince Foster, American lawyer and political figure (b. 1945)
• 1994 » Paul Delvaux, Belgian painter (b. 1897)

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.
• February 16 » China Airlines Flight 2265 crashes into the Pacific Ocean near Penghu Airport in Taiwan, killing all 13 aboard.
• February 16 » The Soviet liner MSMikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
• March 24 » The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.
• April 11 » FBI Miami Shootout: A gun battle in broad daylight in Dade County, Florida between two bank/armored car robbers and pursuing FBI agents. During the firefight, FBI agents Jerry L. Dove and Benjamin P. Grogan were killed, while five other agents were wounded. As a result, the popular .40 S&W cartridge was developed.
• August 21 » Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometer range.
• October 11 » Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Iceland to continue discussions about scaling back IRBM arsenals in Europe.

The temperature on July 20, 1986 was between 8.1 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (9%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.