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• Klompmaker (26)
• Annetje Ros (79), 's Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonie Vosmeijer (65), Deventer
• Anna Jacoba Hendrika Schildmeijer (81), Haarlem
• Alphonsine Josephine Mathilde Leus (74), Sint-Truiden
• Bernardus Johannes VAN HALTEREN (62), Arnhem, Gelderland (NL)
• Arie Drost (57), Edmonton, Canada
• Bastiana Schouten (88)
• Aaltje Donker (72)
• Aaltje de Kleine (87), Emmen

• 1982 » Brad Nelson, American baseball player
• 1982 » Thomas Rohregger, Austrian cyclist
• 1983 » Hanley Ramírez, Dominican baseball player
• 1983 » Lisa Dobriskey, English runner
• 1983 » Michael Chopra, English footballer
• 1984 » Dudu Aharon, Israeli singer-songwriter
• 1984 » Josh Satin, American baseball player
• 1984 » Sebastian Werle, German rugby player
• 1985 » Harry Judd, English drummer and songwriter
• 1986 » Thomas Bourgin, French motorcycle racer († 2013)

• 1972 » Andrei Tupolev, Russian engineer, designed the Tupolev Tu-95 and Tupolev Tu-104 (b. 1888)
• 1973 » Charles Atlas, Italian-American bodybuilder and model (b. 1892)
• 1973 » Irna Phillips, American screenwriter, created Guiding Light and As the World Turns (b. 1901)
• 1979 » Peggy Guggenheim, American-Italian art collector (b. 1898)
• 1982 » Jack Webb, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1920)
• 1983 » Colin Middleton, Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1910)
• 1984 » Joan Lindsay, Australian author and playwright (b. 1896)
• 1992 » Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (b. 1934)
• 1994 » Sebastian Shaw, English actor, director, and playwright (b. 1905)
• 1995 » Patric Knowles, English actor (b. 1911)

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. Johanna
9. Laura
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.
• January 7 » Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
• 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.
• August 4 » The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
• September 21 » Brunei joins the United Nations.
• 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 23, 1984 was between 2.9 °C and 5.9 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.