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• Kim Beverdam, Den Burg († 2015)

• Catharina Louise Antonia Schilte (64), Melbourne, Victoria, Australië
• Abraham Adriaan Laadstra (78), Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Gerarda Maria (Jeanny) Santegoets (49), Goirle
• Annette van Beek (23), Midwolde, Groningen, Nederland
• Alida Schotten (84), Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aurora Silva Bezerra (70), Curitiba Paraná Brasil
• Cleora Lucille McFarlin (87), Florida, Verenigde Staten
• Albert Beyer (70), Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan
• Adriana Francisca Petronelle M Kamp (90), Arnhem
• Ada Elizabeth Baker (94), Markham, York, Ontario, Canada

• 1983 » Flavio Cipolla, Italian tennis player
• 1983 » Luis Saritama, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1984 » Andrew Trimble, Irish rugby player
• 1984 » Florent Sinama Pongolle, French footballer
• 1984 » Mitch Lucker, American singer-songwriter († 2012)
• 1985 » Alphonso Smith, American football player
• 1985 » Dominic McGuire, American basketball player
• 1985 » James Sutton, English race car driver
• 1986 » Elyse Taylor, Australian model
• 1986 » Wanlop Saechio, Thai footballer

• 1978 » Gunnar Nilsson, Swedish race car driver (b. 1948)
• 1983 » Merle Travis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1917)
• 1983 » Yves Thériault, Canadian author (b. 1915)
• 1984 » Carl Ferdinand Cori, Czech-American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
• 1984 » Paul Dirac, English-American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1987 » Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1903)
• 1988 » Sheila Scott, English pilot and author (b. 1922)
• 1989 » Anthony Quayle, English actor and director (b. 1913)
• 1990 » Joel McCrea, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1992 » Werner Torkanowsky, German-American conductor (b. 1926)

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• July 10 » The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
• November 13 » The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts and melts a glacier, causing a lahar (volcanic mudslide) that buries Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people.
• November 19 » Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.
• November 21 » United States Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard is arrested for spying after being caught giving Israel classified information on Arab nations. He is subsequently sentenced to life in prison.

The temperature on October 20, 1985 was between 2.8 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (67%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.