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• margaretha wilhelmina johanna (josé) kranen, venlo

• Cornelia (Corrie) van der Meijden (50), Ingen
• Alida Buma (75), Goes, Nederland
• Charlotte Rademaeckers (76), Brussel, Brabant, Belgium
• Cornelia Johanna Wilhelmina Mols (76), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Delver (85), Zandvoort, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alphonsus Franciscus Cleiren (78), Roosendaal, Roosendaal, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Antje Meindertsd de Jong (70), Oceanside, ca.usa
• Cornelia Christina Vreugdenhil (66), Domburg, Nederland
• Arnoldina Manders (76), Deurne, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Cornelis Abraham Lindhoudt (82), Bergen op Zoom

• 1982 » Natalie Coughlin, American swimmer
• 1983 » Athena Farrokhzad, Iranian-Swedish poet, playwright, and critic
• 1983 » Bruno Spengler, Canadian race car driver
• 1983 » Fiona Onasanya, British Labour Party politician and criminal
• 1983 » James Collins, Welsh footballer
• 1983 » Sun Mingming, Chinese basketball player
• 1983 » Tony Moll, American football player
• 1984 » Eric Tai, New Zealand rugby player and actor
• 1984 » Glen Johnson, English footballer
• 1985 » Valeria Lukyanova, Moldovan-Ukrainian model and singer

• 1974 » Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist and author (b. 1888)
• 1975 » Faruk Gürler, Turkish general (b. 1913)
• 1977 » Naum Gabo, Russian sculptor and academic (b. 1890)
• 1982 » Stanford Moore, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• 1987 » Didier Pironi, French race car and boat driver (b. 1952)
• 1989 » Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese poet and academic (b. 1944)
• 1989 » R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist and author (b. 1927)
• 1990 » David Rose, American pianist and composer (b. 1910)
• 1994 » Zoltán Fábri, Hungarian director and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 1995 » Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-American photographer and journalist (b. 1898)

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

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

• 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.
• February 3 » Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.
• February 24 » Tyrone Mitchell perpetrates the 49th Street Elementary School shooting in Los Angeles, killing two children and injuring 12 more.
• July 17 » The national drinking age in the United States was changed from 18 to 21.
• September 5 » Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
• November 1 » After the assassination of Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India on 31 October 1984, by two of her Sikh bodyguards, anti-Sikh riots erupt.
• December 4 » Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers kill 107–150 civilians in Mannar.

The temperature on August 23, 1984 was between 15.3 °C and 29.6 °C and averaged 22.5 °C. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.