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• Gaby van der Poel, Leiden
• Lindsey BUTTZ († 1996)
• Joep van Dalen, Rotterdam
• Sander Verkroost († 2017)

• Arend Mensinga (70)
• Anthonia Maria van den Akker (85), Twello
• Bonaventure W. Dessart (85), Rukkelingen-Loon
• Anna Mathilda Martha Schottländer (94), Bellflower, Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten
• Constant Moons (85), Lier
• Anton Simandl (90), Berwyn (Cook, Illinois, USA)
• Christina van Rossum (77), Naarden, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alice Virginia Talen (64), King, Texas, United States
• Bernhard Heinrich Poker (84), Haren, NIE, Duitsland
• Arend Dirk Walgraven (87), Wageningen

• 1983 » Gary O'Neil, English footballer
• 1983 » Luis Terrero, Dominican baseball player
• 1983 » Vince Young, American football player
• 1984 » Darius Šilinskis, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1984 » Ivet Lalova, Bulgarian sprinter
• 1984 » Joakim Soria, Mexican baseball player
• 1984 » Niki Terpstra, Dutch cyclist
• 1984 » Simon Pagenaud, French race car driver
• 1985 » Henrique Sereno, Portuguese footballer
• 1985 » Oliver Sin, Hungarian painter

• 1973 » Jeannette Rankin, American social worker and politician (b. 1880)
• 1974 » Harry Ricardo, English engine designer and researcher (b. 1885)
• 1975 » Leroy Anderson, American composer and conductor (b. 1908)
• 1980 » Ian Curtis, English singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
• 1980 » Victims of Mount St. Helens eruption:
• 1981 » Arthur O'Connell, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1981 » William Saroyan, American novelist, playwright, and short story writer (b. 1908)
• 1987 » Mahdi Amel, Lebanese journalist, poet, and academic (b. 1936)
• 1989 » Dorothy Ruth, American horse breeder and author (b. 1921)
• 1990 » Jill Ireland, English actress (b. 1936)

• 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 1 » Brunei becomes independent of the United Kingdom.
• January 1 » The original American Telephone & Telegraph Company is divested of its 22 Bell System companies as a result of the settlement of the 1974 United States Department of Justice antitrust suit against AT&T.
• June 5 » Operation Blue Star: Under orders from India's prime minister, Indira Gandhi, the Indian Army begins an invasion of the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion.
• June 22 » Virgin Atlantic launches with its first flight from London to Newark.
• September 7 » An explosion on board a Maltese patrol boat disposing of illegal fireworks at sea off Gozo kills seven soldiers and policemen.
• 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.

The temperature on May 18, 1984 was between 5.6 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.