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• Alexandra Carolina Wilhelmina(Sandra) Brederode, Leiden
• Anouk Anna Cornelia Stabel, Tilburg

• Arthur Hagedorn (73), Ridgewood, Bergen, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten
• Antje Maria BERGMAN (79), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Maria Bergman (79), Delft
• Bastiaan de Klerk (72), Numansdorp
• Alberdina Geertruida 'Dina' Pusters (83), IJsselstein Verpleeghuis Isselwaarde
• Catharina de Jong (76), Oosterhout,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Carl August Theodor Waldthausen (84), Baarn
• Aleida Hendrika Wilshaus (83), Bloemendaal
• Arnolina Fragoso dos Santos (71), Palmeira, Paraná, Brasil
• Anna Willemse (91)

• 1984 » Ian Kennedy, American baseball player
• 1985 » Andrea Baldini, Italian fencer
• 1985 » Dan Logan, English bass player
• 1985 » Gary Cahill, English footballer
• 1985 » Lady Sovereign, English rapper
• 1985 » Neil Kilkenny, English-Australian footballer
• 1985 » Sally Kipyego, Kenyan runner
• 1986 » Calvin Andrew, English footballer
• 1986 » Ingrid Burley, American rapper and songwriter
• 1986 » Ryan Babel, Dutch footballer

• 1982 » Dwight Macdonald, American philosopher, author, and critic (b. 1906)
• 1984 » Joy Ridderhof, American missionary (b. 1903)
• 1986 » V. C. Andrews, American author (b. 1923)
• 1986 » Werner Dankwort, Russian-German colonel and diplomat (b. 1895)
• 1987 » August Mälk, Estonian author, playwright, and politician (b. 1900)
• 1988 » Robert Bernstein, American author and playwright (b. 1919)
• 1989 » Kirill Mazurov, Belarusian Soviet politician (b. 1914)
• 1989 » Stella Gibbons, English journalist, author, and poet (b. 1902)
• 1991 » Joe Cole, American roadie and author (b. 1961)
• 1993 » Michael Clarke, American drummer (b. 1946)

• 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 28 » Supergroup USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa) records the hit single We Are the World, to help raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.
• February 28 » The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.
• March 3 » Arthur Scargill declares that the National Union of Mineworkers' national executive voted to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Great Britain without any peace deal over pit closures.
• May 29 » Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
• August 23 » Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
• December 16 » Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti, who assumes leadership of New York's Gambino crime family.

The temperature on December 19, 1985 was between 4.8 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.