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• Sebastiaan Huizenga, Harlingen, Friesland, Nederland
• Tom Nys, Heusden-Zolder († 2016)

• André Matthys (57)
• Adriana Wilhelmina van Gils (70), Tilburg
• Aldegonda Maria Magdalena van Roij (87), Venlo
• Anna ( Anne) Tilma (92), Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Adriaan Margadant (68), Zevenaar begraafplaats Rosorum
• Antje Mozes (80), -
• Adriana Catharina Johanna van Berkel, (78), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Angèle Gabrielle Anne Marie HEIRMAN (85), Essen, 11016, Antwerpen, Belgique
• Antonius Franciscus Wilhelmus Bernardus Westerburgen (73), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Armout Johannes Cornelis (Nout) Olijslagers (73), Eindhoven, Nederland

• 1983 » Clint Dempsey, American international soccer player, forward
• 1983 » Wayne Simien, American basketball player
• 1984 » Abdoulay Konko, French footballer
• 1984 » Julia Mancuso, American skier
• 1985 » Brent Burns, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1985 » Jesse Litsch, American baseball player
• 1985 » Parthiv Patel, Indian cricketer
• 1985 » Pastor Maldonado, Venezuelan race car driver
• 1986 » Brittany Snow, American actress and producer
• 1986 » Colin Greening, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1983 » Faye Emerson, American actress (b. 1917)
• 1983 » Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1988 » Kurt Georg Kiesinger, German lawyer, politician and Chancellor of Germany (b. 1904)
• 1989 » Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (b. 1946)
• 1991 » Jim Hardin, American baseball player (b. 1943)
• 1992 » Menachem Begin, Belarusian-Israeli soldier, politician and Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• 1993 » C. Northcote Parkinson, English historian and author (b. 1909)
• 1994 » Charles Bukowski, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1920)
• 1994 » Eddie Creatchman, Canadian wrestler, referee, and manager (b. 1928)
• 1994 » Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (b. 1917)

1. Jan
2. Mark
3. Jeroen
4. Michael
5. Peter
6. Thomas
7. Pieter
8. Johannes
9. David
10. Bart
11. Dennis
12. Robert
13. Sander
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 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.
• March 17 » Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles murder spree.
• May 13 » Police bombed MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia, killing six adults and five children, and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
• November 6 » In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá.
• November 19 » Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.
• December 16 » Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti, who assumes leadership of New York's Gambino crime family.

The temperature on March 9, 1985 was between 0.6 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.