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• Curt Payton Logston, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri († 1984)

• Anthonetta Maria Eggebeen (80), Edmonds, Washington, Verenigde Staten
• Arie van der Marel (59), Overschie
• Antonie van Ee (88)
• Baroness Ella van Heemstra (84), Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland
• Antonie van Ee (88)
• 'Georges' Alphonse Marie Eugène SMETS (74), Anderlecht, 1070, Région Bruxelles-Capitale, Belgique
• Alice J. Tebeest (75), Sheboygan Co., WI (US)
• Catharina Jongen (85), Sint-Truiden, België
• Christina Francisca Tienstra (52), Cromstrijen Hoeksche Waard Zuid-Holland Nederland
• Barones Ella van HEEMSTRA (84), Tolochenaz, Vaud, Zwitserland

• 1982 » Angelo Iorio, Italian footballer
• 1982 » Jayson Nix, American baseball player
• 1982 » John Mulaney, American comedian, actor, writer, and producer
• 1982 » Noah Welch, American ice hockey player
• 1983 » Félix Porteiro, Spanish race car driver
• 1983 » Mattia Cassani, Italian footballer
• 1985 » Brandon McDonald, American football player
• 1985 » David Price, American baseball player
• 1985 » Oleksiy Kasyanov, Ukrainian decathlete
• 1986 » Vladislav Gussev, Estonian footballer

• 1979 » Mika Waltari, Finnish author, translator, and academic (b. 1908)
• 1980 » Rosa Albach-Retty, German-Austrian actress (b. 1874)
• 1980 » Tex Avery, American animator, director, and voice actor (b. 1908)
• 1981 » Lee Hays, American singer-songwriter (b. 1914)
• 1981 » Roger Nash Baldwin, American trade union leader, co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union (b. 1884)
• 1986 » Ted Knight, American actor (b. 1923)
• 1987 » Georg Wittig, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1987 » John Goddard, Barbadian-English cricketer and manager (b. 1919)
• 1988 » Carlos Paião, Portuguese singer-songwriter (b. 1957)
• 1989 » Irving Stone, American author (b. 1903)

• 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.
• February 3 » John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.
• February 13 » Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• July 1 » The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
• July 17 » The national drinking age in the United States was changed from 18 to 21.
• 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 August 26, 1984 was between 10.4 °C and 23.4 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.