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• Johannes Marcus Teunis Jacobus van der Horst
• Niels Dijkstra, Kampen, NL-OV († 1984)

• Aafje Kroondijk (69)
• Brian Coates (21)
• Bianca Fischler van Treuberg (70), Parijs
• Alberic Lammers (74)
• Charles Henri Marie François de La Rochefoucauld (58), Combreux, Loiret, France
• Cornelis Antonius Meester (71), Heerhugowaard, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arend Sloots (69), Nieuwegein
• Andries Baart (72), Badhoevedorp
• Antonia Van Beirendonck (54), Vorselaar, België
• Eduardus Leopoldus De bruyn (69), Bornem

• 1981 » Luciano Figueroa, Argentinian footballer
• 1981 » Yo Gotti, American rapper
• 1982 » Kevin Amankwaah, English footballer
• 1982 » Klaas Vantornout, Belgian cyclist
• 1982 » Pål Steffen Andresen, Norwegian footballer
• 1983 » Jessica Fox, English actress
• 1983 » Michael Che, American comedian
• 1984 » Marcedes Lewis, American football player
• 1985 » Aleister Black, Dutch professional wrestler
• 1986 » Mario Chalmers, American basketball player

• 1978 » Albert Kivikas, Estonian-Swedish journalist and author (b. 1898)
• 1980 » Joseph Schull, Canadian playwright and historian (b. 1906)
• 1983 » Jean Rey, Belgian lawyer and politician, 2nd President of the European Commission (b. 1902)
• 1984 » John Betjeman, English poet and academic (b. 1906)
• 1986 » Jimmy Lyons, American saxophonist (b. 1931)
• 1987 » James Tiptree, Jr., American psychologist and author (b. 1915)
• 1989 » Yiannis Papaioannou, Greek composer and educator (b. 1910)
• 1994 » Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American journalist, 37th First Lady of the United States (b. 1929)
• 1994 » Jacques Ellul, French sociologist, philosopher, and academic (b. 1912)
• 1994 » Luis Ocaña, Spanish cyclist (b. 1945)

1. Mark
2. Jan
3. Jeroen
4. Peter
5. Martijn
6. Michael
7. Wouter
8. Robert
9. Johannes
10. Pieter
11. David
12. Hendrik
13. Bart
14. Thomas
15. Marcel
16. Erik

1. Linda
2. Maria
3. Jessica
4. Anna
5. Kim
6. Wendy
7. Esther
8. Johanna
9. Maaike
10. Laura
11. Sarah
12. Suzanne
13. Sandra
14. Nicole
15. Jennifer
16. Ilse

• 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 14.4 million citizens.
• January 24 » Apple Computer places the Macintosh personal computer on sale in the United States.
• January 28 » Tropical Storm Domoina makes landfall in southern Mozambique, eventually causing 214 deaths and some of the most severe flooding so far recorded in the region.
• June 3 » Operation Blue Star, a military offensive, is launched by the Indian government at Harmandir Sahib, also known as the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine for Sikhs, in Amritsar. The operation continues until June 6, with casualties, most of them civilians, in excess of 5,000.
• October 5 » Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space.
• October 11 » Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
• December 20 » The Summit Tunnel fire, one of the largest transportation tunnel fires in history, burns after a freight train carrying over one million liters of gasoline derails near the town of Todmorden, England, in the Pennines.

The temperature on May 19, 1984 was between 5.9 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.6 hours of sunshine (67%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.