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• Roderik Willems, Arnhem
• Peter Kamphof, Zwolle († 1998)

• Cornelis van der Burgh (75), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland (NLD)
• Bernardina Herfst (88), Baarn, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Ara Estella Crouse (88), Zealand, Ottawa, Michigan
• Adriaan van der Welle (93), Zierikzee
• Aloijsius Hubertus Maria Vermeer (78), 's-Hertogenbosch (Noord-Brabant)
• Andries Harmens Jansma (88)
• Andries Lubberts Stuiver (76), Hidaard, Hennaarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Agnes Rinkema (86), Cook County(Cook), Verenigde Staten
• Cornelis Sparreboom (96), Albrandswaard, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Henrique Wit (88), Riverside, Californië, Verenigde Staten

• 1982 » Alison Brie, American actress and singer
• 1983 » James Kelly, Australian footballer
• 1983 » Jessica Andrews, American singer-songwriter
• 1984 » Brenton Lawrence, Australian rugby league player
• 1984 » Reimo Tamm, Estonian basketball player
• 1985 » Alexa Ray Joel, American singer-songwriter
• 1986 » Joe Anyon, English footballer
• 1987 » Iain De Caestecker, Scottish actor
• 1987 » Juliana Huxtable, American artist
• 1987 » Yuhi Sekiguchi, Japanese race car driver

• 1972 » Chrysostomos Papasarantopoulos, Greek priest and missionary (b. 1903)
• 1972 » Joseph Cornell, American sculptor and director (b. 1903)
• 1976 » Ivo Van Damme, Belgian runner (b. 1954)
• 1980 » Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian author and educator (b. 1899)
• 1981 » Miroslav Krleža, Croatian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1893)
• 1986 » Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1932)
• 1986 » Harold Macmillan, English captain and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)
• 1988 » Mike Beuttler, Egyptian race car driver (b. 1940)
• 1996 » Mireille Hartuch, French singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1906)
• 1998 » Jean-Claude Forest, French author and illustrator (b. 1930)

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. Esther
12. Amanda
13. Judith
14. Nicole
15. Anne
16. Marieke

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• October 6 » Police constable Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.
• December 8 » The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, the regional intergovernmental organization and geopolitical union in South Asia is established.

The temperature on December 29, 1985 was between -3.9 °C and -0.2 °C and averaged -2.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (5%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.