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• Curt Payton Logston, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri († 1984)

• Antonie van Ee (88)
• Cornelia Alida Geskes (88), Baarn, Utrecht, Nederland
• Catharina Jongen (85), Sint-Truiden, België
• Antonie van Ee (88)
• Arie van der Marel (59), Overschie
• Aren Keijzer (81), Stellendam
• Alice J. Tebeest (75), Sheboygan Co., WI (US)
• Anthonetta Maria Eggebeen (80), Edmonds, Washington, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus van der Sluijs (74), Middelharnis
• Adriaan Dubbelman (90), Dordrecht, Nederland

• 1982 » Angelo Iorio, Italian footballer
• 1982 » Jayson Nix, American baseball player
• 1982 » John Mulaney, American comedian, actor, writer, and producer
• 1982 » Noah Welch, American ice hockey player
• 1983 » Félix Porteiro, Spanish race car driver
• 1983 » Mattia Cassani, Italian footballer
• 1985 » Brandon McDonald, American football player
• 1985 » David Price, American baseball player
• 1985 » Oleksiy Kasyanov, Ukrainian decathlete
• 1986 » Vladislav Gussev, Estonian footballer

• 1979 » Mika Waltari, Finnish author, translator, and academic (b. 1908)
• 1980 » Rosa Albach-Retty, German-Austrian actress (b. 1874)
• 1980 » Tex Avery, American animator, director, and voice actor (b. 1908)
• 1981 » Lee Hays, American singer-songwriter (b. 1914)
• 1981 » Roger Nash Baldwin, American trade union leader, co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union (b. 1884)
• 1986 » Ted Knight, American actor (b. 1923)
• 1987 » Georg Wittig, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1987 » John Goddard, Barbadian-English cricketer and manager (b. 1919)
• 1988 » Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer-songwriter (b. 1957)
• 1989 » Irving Stone, American author (b. 1903)

1. Mark
2. Jeroen
3. Jan
4. Peter
5. Michael
6. Martijn
7. Wouter
8. Johannes
9. Robert
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. Laura
9. Johanna
10. Sarah
11. Nicole
12. Sandra
13. Maaike
14. Suzanne
15. Jennifer
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.
• The Netherlands had about 14.4 million citizens.
• January 7 » Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
• August 4 » The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
• August 11 » "We begin bombing in five minutes": United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio.
• September 18 » Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
• December 1 » NASA conducts the Controlled Impact Demonstration, wherein an airliner is deliberately crashed in order to test technologies and gather data to help improve survivability of crashes.
• December 4 » Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers kill 107–150 civilians in Mannar.

The temperature on August 26, 1984 was between 10.4 °C and 23.4 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.