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• Carla Menting († 1984)
• Joshua James Howard Stokes
• tim w.g. maessen, helden-panningen
• Cornelia Hendrika Francisca Menting, Eersel († 1984)
• Jordan Lee Stroobach († 2003)
• Jason Leigh Willink

• Annie Verlaat (74), Wervershoof, Medemblik, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Muller (86), Arnhem
• Anna Verlaat (74), Wervershoof
• Adriaan Frederik Maria van Loon (78), Oisterwijk
• Catharina Christina Waalewijn (92), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cato van Heeren (65), Lisse, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Clement SEGHERS (86), Zelzate,9060,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Bastiaan Francinus Stehouwer (82), Dordrecht
• Cato van Heeren (65), Lisse
• Aleida Berendina Omvlee (88), Driebergen-Rijsenburg, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1981 » Darya Pchelnik, Belarusian hammer thrower
• 1981 » James Shields, American baseball player
• 1981 » Royal Ivey, American basketball player
• 1982 » David Cook, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1982 » David Wright, American baseball player
• 1982 » Kasper Klausen, Danish footballer
• 1982 » Mohammad Asif, Pakistani cricketer
• 1983 » Darren Sammy, Saint Lucian cricketer
• 1983 » Jonah Hill, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1984 » Nikolaos Karabelas, Greek footballer

• 1976 » Richard J. Daley, American lawyer and politician, 48th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1902)
• 1981 » Dimitris Rontiris, Greek actor and director (b. 1899)
• 1982 » Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-American pianist and composer (b. 1887)
• 1984 » Dmitry Ustinov, Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union (1976-84) (b. 1908)
• 1984 » Stanley Milgram, American psychologist and academic (b. 1933)
• 1986 » Joe DeSa, American baseball player (b. 1959)
• 1991 » Albert Van Vlierberghe, Belgian cyclist (b. 1942)
• 1991 » Sam Rabin, English wrestler, singer, and sculptor (b. 1903)
• 1991 » Simone Beck, French chef and author (b. 1904)
• 1993 » W. Edwards Deming, American statistician, author, and academic (b. 1900)

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. Vincent
16. Erik

1. Linda
2. Maria
3. Jessica
4. Anna
5. Kim
6. Wendy
7. Esther
8. Laura
9. Johanna
10. Nicole
11. Sarah
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.
• March 16 » William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Lebanon, is kidnapped by Hezbollah. (He later dies in captivity.)
• May 8 » Corporal Denis Lortie enters the Quebec National Assembly and opens fire, killing three people and wounding 13. René Jalbert, Sergeant-at-Arms of the Assembly, succeeds in calming him, for which he will later receive the Cross of Valour.
• May 8 » The Thames Barrier is officially opened, preventing the floodplain of most of Greater London from being flooded except under extreme circumstances.
• May 27 » The Danube-Black Sea canal is opened, in a ceremony attended by the Ceaușescus. It had been under construction since the 1950s.
• October 12 » The Provisional Irish Republican Army fail to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. The bomb kills five people and wounds 31.
• 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 December 20, 1984 was between 8.2 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 7.6 mm of rain during 8.9 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.