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• Zachary Lon Frerichs († 1984)
• Peter Constant Maria DUYS, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium († 2022)

• Adrianus Johannes van Achthoven (69), Oudewater, Utrecht, Nederland
• Antonia Joanna Schuurmans (90), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina Maria Elisabeth ROMEIJN (61), Tilburg
• Elisabeth Cornelia Snoep (93), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Douwe Haga (82), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Charles Burley Brandt (69), Santa Ana, Orange, California, Verenigde Staten
• Elisabeth Verbruggen (64), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• van der Meer (70), Sarnia Ontario Canada
• Dina WIJNBERG (81), Amsterdam
• Barta van de Kamp (62)

• 1982 » Eddy Curry, American basketball player
• 1982 » Keri Hilson, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1982 » Trai Essex, American football player
• 1983 » Cooper Cronk, Australian rugby league player
• 1985 » Danny Wicks, Australian rugby league player
• 1985 » Frankie Muniz, American actor, drummer, and race car driver
• 1985 » Nico Verdonck, Belgian race car driver
• 1985 » Shikhar Dhawan, Indian cricketer
• 1986 » James Hinchcliffe, Canadian race car driver
• 1986 » LeGarrette Blount, American football player

• 1975 » Constance McLaughlin Green, American historian and author (b. 1897)
• 1977 » Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Russian marshal and politician, Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union (b. 1895)
• 1977 » Katherine Milhous, American author and illustrator (b. 1894)
• 1979 » Jesse Pearson, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
• 1983 » Robert Aldrich, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1918)
• 1984 » Cecil M. Harden, American politician (b. 1894)
• 1986 » Edward Youde, Welsh-Chinese sinologist and diplomat, 26th Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1924)
• 1989 » John Pritchard, English conductor and director (b. 1921)
• 1990 » Alfonso A. Ossorio, Filipino-American painter and sculptor (b. 1916)
• 1994 » Harry Horner, Czech-American director, producer, and production designer (b. 1910)

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.
• July 17 » The national drinking age in the United States was changed from 18 to 21.
• September 7 » An explosion on board a Maltese patrol boat disposing of illegal fireworks at sea off Gozo kills seven soldiers and policemen.
• October 11 » Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
• October 19 » A Roman Catholic priest, Jerzy Popiełuszko, associated with the Solidarity Union, is killed by three agents of the Polish Communist internal intelligence agency.
• December 3 » Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000–600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.
• December 22 » "Subway vigilante" Bernhard Goetz shoots four would-be muggers on an express train in Manhattan section of New York, United States.

The temperature on December 5, 1984 was between 5.4 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.