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• Marinus Gerrit Veldhuis, Leiden († 1986)
• Arne Booij († 2006)
• Arend Booij, Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland († 2006)
• Arend (Arne) Booij, Meppel, Overijssel, The Netherlands († 2006)
• Lucile Françoise JOURNET, Issy les Moulineaux (92)
• Maartje Pieck († 2000)
• Marjolein Anne Maria Vije, Enschede († 2012)

• Cornelis van Rhijn (65), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antoinette de BORST (89), Naarden
• Albert Roelf Hartman (75), Creil, Noordoostpolder
• Carel Willem Johannes Steenhoff (86), Naarden, The Netherlands
• Aasje Hofland (91), Den Haag
• Floyd VANDERMEER (81), Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan
• Cornelia Kromhout, Laag Soeren
• Alie Hofland (91), 's Gravenhage, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Wilhelmus Kools (78), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Eva de Leeuw (82), Wilsum, Overijssel, Nederland

• 1983 » Ben Harris, Australian rugby league player
• 1983 » Liam Finn, Australian-New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1983 » Randy Foye, American basketball player
• 1984 » Senzo Meyiwa, South African footballer († 2014)
• 1984 » Taylor Eigsti, American pianist and composer
• 1985 » Cameron Price, Australian news journalist
• 1985 » Eleanor Catton, Canadian-New Zealand author
• 1985 » Eric Adjetey Anang, Ghanaian sculptor and carpenter
• 1985 » Jonathan Soriano, Spanish footballer
• 1987 » Matthew Connolly, English footballer

• 1978 » Hasso von Manteuffel, German general and politician (b. 1897)
• 1978 » James Bassett, American journalist and author (b. 1912)
• 1980 » Theodor Luts, Estonian-Brazilian director, producer, and cinematographer (b. 1896)
• 1981 » Patsy Kelly, American actress and dancer (b. 1910)
• 1982 » Józef Nawrot, Polish-English footballer (b. 1906)
• 1982 » Sarah Churchill, English actress (b. 1914)
• 1984 » Neil Hamilton, American actor (b. 1899)
• 1991 » Dr. Seuss, American children's book writer, poet, and illustrator (b. 1904)
• 1993 » Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1913)
• 1993 » Ian Stuart Donaldson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1957)

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 1 » The first British mobile phone call is made by Michael Harrison to his father Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone.
• February 16 » Hezbollah is founded.
• 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 13 » Police bombed MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia, killing six adults and five children, and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
• 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.
• October 3 » The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight.

The temperature on September 24, 1985 was between 9.4 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.