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• Bertha Lommers (82), Cromvoirt
• Alexander Hendrik de Hes (87), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Carl Anthony Goecke (78), Campbell, Kentucky, United States
• Arthur Eugene Philips (56), USA Michigan
• Anna Maria Catharina van Eerdewijk (87), Tilburg
• Andries Raaijmakers (88), Veghel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonia Vrijnsen (79), Deurne
• Charles Fon Dixon (86), St. Ignatius, Montana, Verenigde Staten
• Christianus Opdam (52), Leiden
• Bernardus Antonius Kemperink (79), Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland

• 1983 » Ronny Cedeño, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1984 » Brian Cage, American wrestler
• 1984 » Mao Miyaji, Japanese actress
• 1984 » Rudi Wulf, New Zealand rugby player
• 1985 » Kristo Saage, Estonian basketball player
• 1985 » Masoud Azizi, Afghan sprinter
• 1985 » Renn Kiriyama, Japanese actor
• 1985 » Silvestre Varela, Portuguese footballer
• 1986 » Gemma Arterton, English actress and singer
• 1986 » Miwa Asao, Japanese volleyball player

• 1980 » William Howard Stein, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1982 » Paul Desruisseaux, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1905)
• 1983 » Sam Chatmon, American singer and guitarist (b. 1897)
• 1986 » Gino Hernandez, American wrestler (b. 1957)
• 1986 » Anita Cobby, Australian murder victim (b. 1959)
• 1987 » Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 1987 » Carlos José Castilho, Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1927)
• 1988 » Marcel Bozzuffi, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 1989 » Arnold Nordmeyer, New Zealand minister and politician, 30th New Zealand Minister of Finance (b. 1901)
• 1989 » Ondrej Nepela, Slovak figure skater and coach (b. 1951)

1. Jan
2. Mark
3. Jeroen
4. Michael
5. Peter
6. Thomas
7. Pieter
8. Johannes
9. David
10. Bart
11. Dennis
12. Sander
13. Robert
14. Kevin
15. Paul
16. Tim

1. Maria
2. Linda
3. Kim
4. Laura
5. Jessica
6. Johanna
7. Anna
8. Stephanie
9. Charlotte
10. Sarah
11. Amanda
12. Esther
13. Judith
14. Anne
15. Nicole
16. Saskia

• 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 14.5 million citizens.
• February 5 » Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.
• February 28 » The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.
• July 13 » The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia, as well as other venues such as Moscow and Sydney.
• July 20 » The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles.
• October 10 » US Navy aircraft intercept an Egyptian airliner carrying the perpetrators of the Achille Lauro hijacking, and force it to land in Italy.
• November 21 » United States Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard is arrested for spying after being caught giving Israel classified information on Arab nations. He is subsequently sentenced to life in prison.

The temperature on February 2, 1985 was between 3.2 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (34%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.