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• Rik Arie Adrianus Houtveen, Bergen op Zoom (NB, NLD) († 2000)
• Wouter Ferenç Touw, Wageningen

• Alphonsus Anthonissen (81), Merksem, België
• Amandus SEGERS (86), Sint-Antonius-Zoersel,2980,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Andre Bouw (16)
• Antje Kalfsbeek- (70), Drachten, Nederland
• Cathrina Molenaar (88), Obdam
• Antje Neinhuis (82), Usquert, Groningen, Nederland
• Aline Julienne Lucaert (90), Bailleul, Nord, Frankrijk
• Alida SIMONIS (65), Brielle, ZH, Nederland
• Aleida Elisabeth Wijers (82), Zevenaar, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aniëlle Komarovska (87), Warschau

• 1983 » Athena Farrokhzad, Iranian-Swedish poet, playwright, and critic
• 1983 » James Collins, Welsh footballer
• 1983 » Sun Mingming, Chinese basketball player
• 1983 » Tony Moll, American football player
• 1984 » Eric Tai, New Zealand rugby player and actor
• 1984 » Glen Johnson, English footballer
• 1985 » Valeria Lukyanova, Moldovan-Ukrainian model and singer
• 1986 » Brett Morris, Australian rugby league player
• 1986 » Josh Morris, Australian rugby league player
• 1986 » Neil Cicierega, American comedian and musician

• 1974 » Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist and author (b. 1888)
• 1975 » Faruk Gürler, Turkish general (b. 1913)
• 1977 » Naum Gabo, Russian sculptor and academic (b. 1890)
• 1982 » Stanford Moore, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• 1987 » Didier Pironi, French race car and boat driver (b. 1952)
• 1989 » Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese poet and academic (b. 1944)
• 1989 » R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist and author (b. 1927)
• 1990 » David Rose, American pianist and composer (b. 1910)
• 1994 » Zoltán Fábri, Hungarian director and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 1995 » Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-American photographer and journalist (b. 1898)

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. Jennifer

• 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 » 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.
• August 27 » The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Major General Ibrahim Babangida.
• September 14 » Penang Bridge, the longest bridge in Malaysia, connecting the island of Penang to the mainland, opens to traffic.
• October 7 » Four men from the Palestine Liberation Front hijack the MSAchille Lauro off the coast of Egypt.
• December 27 » Palestinian guerrillas kill eighteen people inside the airports of Rome, Italy, and Vienna, Austria.

The temperature on August 23, 1985 was between 12.8 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (11%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.