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• CATHALIJN MAAT, Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Jasmijn HOFFMAN, Wijk bij Duurstede, Utrecht, Nederland († 2009)

• Catharina Barendrecht (50)
• Clarence Hoekstra (73), Tacoma, Washington
• Andries Schokker (68), 's Gravenmoer, Noord Brabant
• Scheers
• Antonius Josephus Maria Brouwers (59), Tilburg
• Alphonsus Oerlemans (81), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• "Henry" Josselin Marie Victor Costa de Beauregard (86)
• Anna Mary Eshleman (91), Manor Twp., Lancaster Co., PA
• Bernard KEMMEREN (41), Waalwijk,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cyril Eric BEECH (83), Chislehurst, Kent

• 1983 » Greta Gerwig, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1984 » Mardy Collins, American basketball player
• 1984 » Terry Campese, Australian rugby league player
• 1985 » Antonio Valencia, Ecuadorean footballer
• 1985 » Crystal Bowersox, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1985 » Ha Seung-jin, South Korean basketball player
• 1985 » Mark Milligan, Australian footballer
• 1985 » Robbie Findley, American soccer player
• 1986 » Leon Camier, English motorcycle racer
• 1986 » Nick Augusto, American drummer

• 1976 » Enrique Angelelli, Argentinian bishop and martyr (b. 1923)
• 1976 » Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian-English publisher (b. 1894)
• 1977 » Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, English physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
• 1981 » Melvyn Douglas, American actor (b. 1901)
• 1982 » Bruce Goff, American architect, designed the Boston Avenue Methodist Church (b. 1904)
• 1985 » Don Whillans, English rock climber and mountaineer (b. 1933)
• 1990 » Ettore Maserati, Italian engineer and businessman (b. 1894)
• 1992 » Seichō Matsumoto, Japanese author (b. 1909)
• 1996 » Geoff Hamilton, English gardener, author, and television host (b. 1936)
• 1997 » Jeanne Calment, French super-centenarian; holds records for the world's substantiated longest-lived person (b. 1875)

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. Johanna
9. Laura
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.
• May 8 » The Thames Barrier is officially opened, preventing the floodplain of most of Greater London from being flooded except under extreme circumstances.
• August 30 » STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.
• October 5 » Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space.
• October 12 » The Provisional Irish Republican Army fail to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. The bomb kills five people and wounds 31.
• November 27 » Under the Brussels Agreement signed between the governments of the United Kingdom and Spain, the former agreed to enter into discussions with Spain over Gibraltar, including sovereignty.

The temperature on August 4, 1984 was between 13.5 °C and 23.8 °C and averaged 18.1 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.