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• Leonardus Hendrikus Maria Lard Borst († 2005)
• David Price

• Adrianus Nicolaas Visser (67), Rheden, Gelderland, Nederland
• Bertha Dorothea Maria Lock (93), Wateringen (Westland), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Christina Johanna Hauser (94), Rijswijk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Bertha Lock (93)
• Bernard Dewit (71), Chicago Heights, Cook, Illinois, United States
• Bertha Lock (93), Wateringen
• Arien Mijndert van Veen (82)
• Carl W. Schmidt (71), Grant Township (Oceana County) (Michigan)
• Cornelia Petronella Laurijssen (82), Zundert,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Windzant (75), Roosendaal

• 1984 » Jacoby Jones, American football player
• 1984 » Joe Pavelski, American ice hockey player
• 1984 » Morné Steyn, South African rugby player
• 1984 » Tanith Belbin, Canadian-American ice dancer
• 1984 » Yorman Bazardo, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1985 » Orestis Karnezis, Greek footballer
• 1985 » Robert Adamson, American actor, director, and producer
• 1986 » Raúl García, Spanish footballer
• 1986 » Ryan Jarvis, English footballer
• 1986 » Yoann Gourcuff, French footballer

• 1974 » Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish novelist, playwright, and poet Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
• 1976 » León de Greiff, Colombian poet and educator (b. 1895)
• 1979 » Claude Wagner, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1925)
• 1983 » Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian author (b. 1915)
• 1987 » Avi Ran, Israeli footballer (b. 1963)
• 1987 » Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman, American rabbi and scholar (b. 1901)
• 1989 » Laurence Olivier, English actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)
• 1991 » Mokhtar Dahari, Malaysian footballer and coach (b. 1953)
• 1994 » Gary Kildall, American computer scientist, founded Digital Research (b. 1942)
• 1998 » Panagiotis Kondylis, Greek philosopher and author (b. 1943)

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.
• 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.
• May 11 » Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in the Bradford City stadium fire.
• June 15 » Rembrandt's painting Danaë is attacked by a man (later judged insane) who throws sulfuric acid on the canvas and cuts it twice with a knife.
• September 1 » A joint American–French expedition locates the wreckage of the RMSTitanic.
• December 14 » Wilma Mankiller takes office as the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.

The temperature on July 11, 1985 was between 8.9 °C and 22.5 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (38%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.