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• José Luiz Gesser, Ituporanga, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 2002)
• Jessica De Gorter

• Christina Gottschalk (82), Venlo (L)
• Arie Hendrik van der Gaag (91), Voorschoten
• Abraham John FULLERLOVE (77), 161 Swadlincote Road, Woodville, Swadlincote, Derbyshire
• Aaltien de Wilde (91), Groningen
• antonius van den bogaard (76), lieshout
• Abrahan Lesterhuis (71), Utrecht,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Anna Maria Walfort (83)
• Catharina Elisabeth van Moock (71), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Post (78), Oudeschoot
• Antje Verkerk (91), Alblasserdam

• 1984 » Andrew Davies, English footballer
• 1984 » Julian Bennett, English footballer
• 1984 » Luis Maria Alfageme, Argentinian footballer
• 1984 » Mikky Ekko, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1984 » Shannon Woodward, American actress
• 1985 » Łukasz Broź, Polish footballer
• 1985 » Craig Reid, English footballer
• 1985 » Greg James, English radio presenter and comedian
• 1986 » Emma Bell, American actress
• 1986 » Frank Winterstein, Australian-Samoan rugby league player

• 1978 » Don Ellis, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (b. 1934)
• 1981 » Antiochos Evangelatos, Greek composer and conductor (b. 1903)
• 1982 » Homer S. Ferguson, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1889)
• 1986 » Guillermo Cano Isaza, Colombian journalist (b. 1925)
• 1987 » Linda Wong, American porn actress (b. 1951)
• 1987 » Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian-American author and poet (b. 1903)
• 1992 » Dana Andrews, American actor (b. 1909)
• 1992 » Günther Anders, German journalist and philosopher (b. 1902)
• 1999 » Grover Washington Jr., American singer-songwriter and saxophonist (b. 1943)
• 1999 » Rex Allen, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1920)

• 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 13 » A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.
• March 8 » A supposed failed assassination attempt on Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon kills at least 45 and injures 175 others.
• 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.
• July 13 » Vice President George H. W. Bush becomes the Acting President for the day when President Ronald Reagan undergoes surgery to remove polyps from his colon.
• October 1 » Israel-Palestinian conflict: Israel attacks the Palestine Liberation Organization headquarters in Tunisia during "Operation Wooden Leg".
• November 15 » A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.

The temperature on December 17, 1985 was between 7.8 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.