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• Marije Wilpstra, Groningen
• Brandan James Rogers, Penrith
• Petrus Hendrikus Marinus van der Horst
• Oosterhuis († 1985)

• Aloijsius Andreas Johannes Beerens (81), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia Petronella (Cor) Barendse (69), Naaldwijk, Nederland
• Callie Mae Sproles (85)
• Oosterhuis (0)
• Casper Meijns (77), wormer
• Arend Kok (95), Eelde, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Johanna Maria Antonia Josepha Hoek (79), Oirschot, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonio Augusto Quinet de Andrade (71), Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
• Colette Chrétien (62), Saint-Cloud, Frankrijk
• Adolfo Romo (63), Monclova, Coahuila, México

• 1981 » Ryan Ashford, English footballer
• 1982 » Antonio Pavanello, Italian rugby player
• 1982 » Ian Thorpe, Australian swimmer
• 1986 » Gabriel Agbonlahor, English footballer
• 1986 » Sergio Pérez Moya, Mexican footballer
• 1987 » Adrian Poparadu, Romanian footballer
• 1987 » Nikita Satalkin, Russian footballer
• 1987 » Tochinoshin Tsuyoshi, Georgian sumo wrestler
• 1988 » Enrique Pérez, Mexican footballer
• 1988 » Scott Jamieson, Australian footballer

• 1979 » Antonio Berni, Argentinian painter, illustrator, and engraver (b. 1905)
• 1981 » Rebecca Clarke, English viola player and composer (b. 1886)
• 1985 » Tage Danielsson, Swedish author, actor, and director (b. 1928)
• 1987 » Kishore Kumar, Indian singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and director (b. 1929)
• 1987 » Nilgün Marmara, Turkish poet and author (b. 1958)
• 1987 » Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1990 » Hans Namuth, German-American photographer (b. 1915)
• 1990 » Lê Đức Thọ, Vietnamese general and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1992 » James Marshall, American author and illustrator (b. 1942)
• 1993 » Otmar Gutmann, Founder of The Pygos Group and creator of Pingu (b. 1937)

• 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 7 » Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
• March 4 » The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for HIV infection, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.
• 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.
• September 14 » Penang Bridge, the longest bridge in Malaysia, connecting the island of Penang to the mainland, opens to traffic.
• October 26 » The Australian government returns ownership of Uluru to the local Pitjantjatjara Aboriginals.
• December 27 » Palestinian guerrillas kill eighteen people inside the airports of Rome, Italy, and Vienna, Austria.

The temperature on October 13, 1985 was between 3.2 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (84%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.