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• Johannes Cornelis Verkleij, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Anna VAN DEN AARSSEN (76)
• Antonius Johannes van der Meer (80), Leiden
• Aart Werkman (69), Amsterdam {NH}
• Adrianus Theodorus Marie Roovers (59)
• Anna Maria Wesseling (88), Bloemendaal
• Anna Dirks Kroes (78)
• Antonius (Kees) Oornink (52)
• Antonius Wilhelmus Pullens (70)
• Anneliese Ostermann (47), Rastdorf (Duitsland)
• Alberdina Johanna Maria Korsten (78), Leidschendam, Zuid Holland, Nederland

• 1983 » Calum Davenport, English footballer
• 1983 » Melaine Walker, Jamaican hurdler
• 1983 » Park Sung-hyun, South Korean archer
• 1984 » Paolo Guerrero, Peruvian footballer
• 1985 » Steven Davis, Northern Irish footballer
• 1985 » Tiago Splitter, Brazilian basketball player
• 1986 » Pablo Cuevas, Uruguayan tennis player
• 1986 » Ramses Barden, American football player
• 1987 » Meryl Davis, American ice dancer
• 1987 » Patric Hörnqvist, Swedish ice hockey player

• 1978 » Carle Hessay, German-Canadian painter (b. 1911)
• 1980 » Pietro Nenni, Italian journalist and politician, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1891)
• 1981 » Hephzibah Menuhin, American-Australian pianist (b. 1920)
• 1982 » Victor Buono, American actor (b. 1938)
• 1984 » Alexis Korner, French-English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1928)
• 1992 » Grace Hopper, American computer scientist and admiral, co-developed COBOL (b. 1906)
• 1994 » Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt, New Zealand physician and politician, 11th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1900)
• 1994 » Cesar Romero, American actor (b. 1907)
• 1994 » Edward Arthur Thompson, Irish historian and academic (b. 1914)
• 1995 » Eugene Wigner, Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)

• 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.
• March 20 » Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
• September 13 » Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which starts the Super Mario series of platforming games.
• October 6 » Police constable Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
• November 6 » In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá.
• December 27 » Palestinian guerrillas kill eighteen people inside the airports of Rome, Italy, and Vienna, Austria.

The temperature on January 1, 1985 was between 0.5 °C and 6.3 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 5.9 mm of rain during 5.5 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.