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• Roderik Willems, Arnhem
• Peter Kamphof, Zwolle († 1998)
• Bernard Ruben Voortman, Alkmaar

• Anna Maria Gertrudis Verspa (94), Horst, Limburg, Nederland
• Aaltje Bergmeester (82), Brunssum
• Charles Wesley DALMAN (71), Kansas City Jackson County Missouri U.S.A
• Benjamin Schravemade (52)
• Cornelia Susanna van Loon (87), Bergschenhoek, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andries Foppe Drost (59)
• Bernardina Herfst (88), Baarn
• Andries Foppe Drost (59)
• Arthur John Vruwink (80), Sheboygan Co., Wisconsin
• 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)

• 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.
• March 20 » Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
• March 20 » Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
• April 23 » Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months.
• August 22 » British Airtours Flight 28M suffers an engine fire during takeoff at Manchester Airport. The pilots abort but due to inefficient evacuation procedures 55 people are killed, mostly from smoke inhalation.
• September 19 » Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.
• December 27 » Palestinian guerrillas kill eighteen people inside the airports of Rome, Italy, and Vienna, Austria.

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.