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• Mark Damen, Gaanderen
• Melanie Joy (Mel) Sikkema, Hobart Tasmania (Australia)
• Anne-Co Struijk, Dordrecht
• Els Wolfs, Hasselt, België († 2012)

• Antonius Bernardus Sonneveld (88), Drempt
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• Albert van Dam (52), Uithuizermeeden, Groningen, Nederland
• angelina hendrika peeters (78), deurne
• Cecilia Maria Coleta Broeckx (58), Ewijk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alda Mulders (38), Neerpelt
• Anthonia van Boggelen (80), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Arnold Beerts (70), Luik, België
• Adriaantje van Brakel (92), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Loos (94)

• 1982 » Adriano, Brazilian footballer
• 1982 » Brian Bruney, American baseball player
• 1982 » Daniel Merriweather, Australian singer-songwriter
• 1983 » Kevin Rudolf, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1984 » AB de Villiers, South African cricketer
• 1984 » Drew Miller, American ice hockey player
• 1984 » Jimmy Jacobs, American wrestler
• 1984 » Katie Hill, Australian 3.0 point wheelchair basketball player
• 1984 » Marcin Gortat, Polish basketball player
• 1985 » Anders Jacobsen, Norwegian ski jumper

• 1977 » Janani Luwum, Ugandan archbishop and saint (b. 1922)
• 1979 » William Gargan, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1982 » Lee Strasberg, American actor and director (b. 1901)
• 1982 » Nestor Chylak, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1922)
• 1982 » Thelonious Monk, American pianist and composer (b. 1917)
• 1986 » Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian-American philosopher and author (b. 1895)
• 1988 » John M. Allegro, English archaeologist and scholar (b. 1923)
• 1988 » Karpoori Thakur, Indian educator and politician, 11th Chief Minister of Bihar (b. 1924)
• 1989 » Lefty Gomez, American baseball player (b. 1908)
• 1990 » Jean-Marc Boivin, French mountaineer, skier, and pilot (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.
• January 28 » Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.
• July 10 » The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
• September 1 » A joint American–French expedition locates the wreckage of the RMSTitanic.
• November 6 » In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá.
• November 15 » A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
• December 12 » Arrow Air Flight 1285, a McDonnell Douglas DC-8, crashes after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland, killing all 256 people on board, including 236 members of the United States Army's 101st Airborne Division.

The temperature on February 17, 1985 was between -5.5 °C and 2.5 °C and averaged -1.8 °C. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (27%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.