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• Melcher Ophuis, Tilburg
• Vincent Teunis Pereboom († 1985)

• CAROLINE ROTTHIER (52), NIEUWKERKEN-W,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE
• Berend Jeltesz Kelderhuis (79), Delfstrahuizen, schoterland.fr.nld
• Alexander johannus Baak (34), Haarlem, Noord Holland, Netherlands
• Alfred Harry Reed (75), Saginaw, Saginaw County, Michigan
• Maria Theodora Johanna Schel (75), Tilburg
• Bartel Oranje (63), Bussum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Andreas (Andries) Van Der Loop (76), Veghel
• Cornelia Maria Meuldijk (64), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arnold Oswald Hitipeuw (60), Middelburg
• Bastiaantje Bastiaansd Hoppel (96), Rotterdam, zh.nld

• 1978 » Bruno Cheyrou, French footballer
• 1981 » Humberto Suazo, Chilean footballer
• 1981 » Samuel Dalembert, Haitian-Canadian basketball player
• 1983 » Gustav Fridolin, Swedish journalist and politician, Swedish Minister of Education
• 1984 » Edward Mujica, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1985 » Jon Schofield, English canoe racer
• 1985 » Ryan Getzlaf, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1987 » Wilson Chandler, American basketball player
• 1990 » Ivana Španović, Serbian long jumper
• 1990 » Salvador Pérez, Venezuelan baseball player

• 1974 » Hal Mohr, American director and cinematographer (b. 1894)
• 1977 » Joan Crawford, American actress (year of birth disputed)
• 1982 » Peter Weiss, German playwright and painter (b. 1916)
• 1988 » Shen Congwen, Chinese author and academic (b. 1902)
• 1990 » Walker Percy, American novelist and essayist (b. 1916)
• 1994 » John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer (b. 1942)
• 1999 » Shel Silverstein, American poet, author, and illustrator
• 2000 » Dick Sprang, American illustrator (b. 1915)
• 2000 » Jules Deschênes, Canadian lawyer and judge (b. 1923)
• 2001 » Sudhakarrao Naik, Indian politician, Governor of Himachal Pradesh (b. 1934)

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

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

• 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.
• March 20 » Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
• March 20 » Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
• June 23 » A terrorist bomb explodes at Narita International Airport near Tokyo. An hour later, the same group detonates a second bomb aboard Air India Flight 182, bringing the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.
• June 30 » Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
• September 13 » Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which starts the Super Mario series of platforming games.
• September 19 » A strong earthquake kills thousands and destroys about 400 buildings in Mexico City.

The temperature on May 10, 1985 was between 8.3 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.