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• Jeanette BLANDER, Thisted Denmark († 2007)
• Aurélie Rens

• Albertus Hendricus Overweter (89), Hengelo
• Adriaantje van der Vorm (87), Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Krijgsman (73), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albertus Hendricus Overweter (89), Hengelo
• Alina Geertruida Arianna Zeeman (86), Schagen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Maria Andriessen (84), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Atlas Devone Braddy (79), Dublin, Laurens County, Georgia, United States
• Aleijda Meijerink (80)
• Augusta Van Wauwe (79), Temse
• Antje Felixd van Luijk (90), Pernis, zh.nld

• 1982 » Brad Boyes, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1983 » Andrea Marcato, Italian rugby player
• 1983 » Roberto Jiménez, Peruvian footballer
• 1983 » Stanislav Chistov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1984 » Jed Lowrie, American baseball player
• 1984 » Pablo Sebastián Álvarez, Argentinian footballer
• 1984 » Raffaele Palladino, Italian footballer
• 1985 » Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, French tennis player
• 1985 » Luke Mitchell, Australian actor and model
• 1985 » Rooney Mara, American actress

• 1975 » Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher and politician, 2nd President of India (b. 1888)
• 1976 » Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
• 1977 » William Conway, Irish cardinal (b. 1913)
• 1983 » Felix Pappalardi, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (b. 1939)
• 1984 » Claude Provost, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1933)
• 1987 » Cecil Harmsworth King, English publisher (b. 1901)
• 1987 » Dick Shawn, American actor (b. 1923)
• 1988 » Louise Nevelson, Ukrainian-American sculptor and educator (b. 1900)
• 1990 » Ralph Abernathy, American minister and activist (b. 1936)
• 1993 » Turgut Özal, Turkish engineer and politician, 8th president of Turkey (b. 1927)

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.
• April 6 » Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.
• June 3 » Operation Blue Star, a military offensive, is launched by the Indian government at Harmandir Sahib, also known as the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine for Sikhs, in Amritsar. The operation continues until June 6, with casualties, most of them civilians, in excess of 5,000.
• July 1 » The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
• September 12 » Dwight Gooden sets the baseball record for strikeouts in a season by a rookie with 276, previously set by Herb Score with 246 in 1954. Gooden's 276 strikeouts that season, pitched in 218 innings, set the current record.
• 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.

The temperature on April 17, 1984 was between -1.5 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (78%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.