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• Vlindertje van Hooijdonk († 1984)
• Jeroen van der Meulen, Leeuwarden († 2005)
• Jeroen van der Meulen, Leeuwarden († 2005)

• Barend Frederik Strunk (95), AMSTERDAM, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Franciscus Josephus de Kok (79), Tilburg
• Adrianus Franciscus Josephus de Kok (79), Tilburg
• Antje Yntzes Jongsma (88), Heerenveen, Schoterland, Friesland, Nederland
• Antonius Wilhelmus Hendrikus van den Heuvel (76), Voorburg
• August Johannes van der Sluijs (63), Maasdriel
• Antonius Maria Ignatius Jozef (Anton) Zuydwijk (64), Leidschendam
• adelia constance wezel (50), golf van biskaje
• Arend Tiemens (79), Hendrik Ido Ambacht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• adrianus eustachius diepstraten (70), Vlaardingen

• 1981 » Óliver Pérez, American baseball player
• 1981 » Brendan Hansen, American swimmer
• 1982 » Casey Burgener, American weightlifter
• 1982 » David Harrison, American basketball player
• 1982 » Germán Caffa, Argentine footballer
• 1983 » Siobhan Chamberlain, English association football goalkeeper
• 1985 » Nipsey Hussle, American rapper († 2019)
• 1987 » Michel Kreder, Dutch cyclist
• 1987 » Ryan D'Imperio, American football player
• 1987 » Sean McAllister, English footballer

• 1975 » Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bengali politician, 1st President of Bangladesh (b. 1920)
• 1981 » Carol Ryrie Brink, American author (b. 1895)
• 1981 » Jørgen Løvset, Norwegian gynaecologist and academic (b. 1896)
• 1982 » Ernie Bushmiller, American cartoonist (b. 1905)
• 1982 » Hugo Theorell, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1982 » Jock Taylor, Scottish motorcycle sidecar racer (b. 1954)
• 1989 » Minoru Genda, Japanese general, pilot, and politician (b. 1904)
• 1989 » Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos, Greek general and diplomat (b. 1897)
• 1990 » Viktor Tsoi, Russian musician and actor (b. 1962)
• 1992 » Linda Laubenstein, American physician and academic (b. 1947)

• 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.
• July 18 » McDonald's massacre in San Ysidro, California: In a fast-food restaurant, James Oliver Huberty opens fire, killing 21 people and injuring 19 others before being shot dead by police.
• September 5 » STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.
• September 5 » Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
• October 16 » Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• November 2 » Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.

The temperature on August 15, 1984 was between 9.2 °C and 21.9 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (14%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.