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• Meggie Lynn DeSpain, Verenigde Statn († 2003)
• Dyonne Marie-José Heuvelmans, Sittard

• Adriana Geertruida van Ewijk (88), Aalst, Gelderland, Nederland
• Bertha Durks Algra (67), Haulerwijk
• Cornelia Maria Anna de Heij (83), Bertogne,Belgie
• Anna Toersen (79)
• ALFRED J. Bjoraker (70), Owatonna, Steele, Minnesota, United States of America
• Clara Rosalia Maria Spitzen (91)
• Anna Toersen (79), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Cornelius Lambertus Henricus Horsten (83), 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Arend Vellekoop (81), Haarlemmermeer
• Aartje Elisabeth Quint (84), Royal Oak, Michigan (USA)

• 1983 » Brett Gardner, American baseball player
• 1983 » George Perris, Greek-French singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1983 » Marcel Goc, German ice hockey player
• 1984 » Charlie Villanueva, American basketball player
• 1984 » Erin Molan, Australian journalist and sportscaster
• 1986 » Arian Foster, American football player
• 1986 » Fabiano Santacroce, Italian footballer
• 1986 » Joseph Akpala, Nigerian footballer
• 1986 » Nick Adenhart, American baseball player († 2009)
• 1987 » Anže Kopitar, Slovenian ice hockey player

• 1979 » Hanna Reitsch, German soldier and pilot (b. 1912)
• 1980 » Yootha Joyce, English actress (b. 1927)
• 1982 » Félix-Antoine Savard, Canadian priest and author (b. 1896)
• 1983 » Kalevi Kotkas, Estonian-Finnish high jumper and discus thrower (b. 1913)
• 1983 » Scott Nearing, American economist, educator, and activist (b. 1883)
• 1985 » Paul Creston, American composer and educator (b. 1906)
• 1987 » Malcolm Kirk, English rugby player and wrestler (b. 1936)
• 1990 » Gely Abdel Rahman, Sudanese-Egyptian poet and academic (b. 1931)
• 1990 » Sergei Dovlatov, Russian-American journalist and author (b. 1941)
• 1991 » Bernard Castro, Italian-American inventor (b. 1904)

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.
• 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 31 » The first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE (then the WWF), takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York City.
• July 13 » The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia, as well as other venues such as Moscow and Sydney.
• October 3 » The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight.
• October 4 » The Free Software Foundation is founded.
• October 26 » The Australian government returns ownership of Uluru to the local Pitjantjatjara Aboriginals.

The temperature on August 24, 1985 was between 12.4 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 5.1 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.