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• Jessica Bernardina Maria Crooijmans, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Laurens Timon Tielenius Kruythoff, Meppel, Drenthe, Nederland

• Antonius Bernardus Schuurmans (79), 's Hertogenbosch
• Caspar Bouts (68), Elsloo (Stein), Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Maria Soomers (75), Tholen
• Anna Brakenhoff (92), Rotterdam
• Apollonia Christina Anna Bos (68), Steggerda, Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Netherlands
• Anna Catharina Maria Hubertina Franssen (90), Roermond, Nederland
• Aaltje Hasenoot (55), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Paulina Van Wallendael (86), Ekeren, Antwerpen
• "Huguette" Raymonde Eulalie de Çagarriga (83), Lavaur, Tarn, France
• Charles Edward Missar (83), Chicago, Illinois, Verenigde Staten

• 1983 » Viva Bianca, Australian actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1984 » Amanda Evora, American figure skater
• 1984 » Park Han-byul, South Korean model and actress
• 1985 » Carolina Neurath, Swedish journalist
• 1985 » Luis Aguiar, Uruguayan footballer
• 1985 » Sékou Camara, Malian footballer († 2013)
• 1986 » Everth Cabrera, Nicaraguan baseball player
• 1986 » Fabio Concas, Italian footballer
• 1986 » Greg Rutherford, English long jumper
• 1986 » Nani, Portuguese footballer

• 1976 » Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, Bangladeshi scholar and politician (b. 1880)
• 1979 » John Glascock, English singer and bass player (b. 1951)
• 1982 » Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer and conductor (b. 1905)
• 1986 » Georges Besse, French businessman (b. 1927)
• 1987 » Paul Derringer, American baseball player (b. 1906)
• 1988 » Sheilah Graham Westbrook, English-American actress, author, and journalist (b. 1904)
• 1989 » Costabile Farace, American criminal (b. 1960)
• 1990 » Robert Hofstadter, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
• 1992 » Audre Lorde, American poet, essayist, memoirist, and activist (b. 1934)
• 1993 » Gérard D. Levesque, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Deputy Premier of Quebec (b. 1926)

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.
• March 20 » Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
• June 15 » Rembrandt's painting Danaë is attacked by a man (later judged insane) who throws sulfuric acid on the canvas and cuts it twice with a knife.
• October 3 » The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight.
• October 4 » The Free Software Foundation is founded.
• October 10 » US Navy aircraft intercept an Egyptian airliner carrying the perpetrators of the Achille Lauro hijacking, and force it to land in Italy.

The temperature on November 17, 1985 was between -1.9 °C and 3.5 °C and averaged 1.0 °C. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (43%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.