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• Antoon Lodewijk van Gompel (65), Leuven (België)
• Catharina Hendrika (Catrien) Gunther (81), Ede
• Cornelis Johannes Els (84)
• Albertus Nieudorp (69), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Jacobus JOPPE (53), Groenlo,Oost Gelre,GELDERLAND,NETHERLANDS
• Antonius Pieters (83), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Alida VANDEKERCKHOVE (90), Tielt,8700,West-Vlaanderen,Wvl, België
• Catharina Hendrika Gunther (81), Ede, Gelderland, Nederland
• Bertha Steck (82), Amsterdam
• Dieuwertje Kikkert (88), Wassenaar

• 1982 » Jason Eaton, New Zealand rugby player
• 1982 » Omar Sachedina, Canadian television journalist, correspondent, and news anchor
• 1983 » Scott McDonald, Australian footballer
• 1984 » Melvin Upton, Jr., American baseball player
• 1984 » Neil Dexter, South African cricketer
• 1985 » Aleksandra Kiryashova, Russian pole vaulter
• 1985 » Nicolás Almagro, Spanish tennis player
• 1986 » Koki Sakamoto, Japanese gymnast
• 1986 » Usain Bolt, Jamaican sprinter
• 1986 » Wout Brama, Dutch footballer

• 1978 » Charles Eames, American architect, co-designed the Eames House (b. 1907)
• 1979 » Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1910)
• 1981 » Kaka Kalelkar, Indian Hindi Writer(B.1885)
• 1983 » Benigno Aquino, Jr., Filipino journalist and politician (b. 1932)
• 1988 » Ray Eames, American architect, co-designed the Eames House (b. 1912)
• 1988 » Teodoro de Villa Diaz, Filipino guitarist and songwriter (b. 1963)
• 1989 » Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1945)
• 1993 » Tatiana Troyanos, American soprano and actress (b. 1938)
• 1995 » Chuck Stevenson, American race car driver (b. 1919)
• 1995 » Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-American astrophysicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)

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. Nicole
15. Anne
16. Marieke

• 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.
• April 19 » Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later.
• May 31 » United States–Canada tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
• June 17 » Space Shuttle program: STS-51-G mission: Space Shuttle Discovery launches carrying Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a payload specialist.
• July 19 » The Val di Stava dam collapses killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
• September 13 » Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which starts the Super Mario series of platforming games.
• 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 August 21, 1985 was between 12.1 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 11.6 hours of sunshine (81%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.