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• James Vance Kamstra
• Anne Rose Sutherland, Huizen († 1986)
• Anna-Rose Sutherland, Huizen, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands († 1986)
• Elisabeth MILLER, Hôpital Brugmann, Bruxelles, 1090, Brabant, Belgique

• Catharina, Johanna van Eekelen (86), Wouw
• Anthonie Kleijer (90)
• Anna Withagen (92), Bergen op Zoom, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Andrew James Gordon (81)
• Anna van Roeden (82), Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland
• Clarence Epperly (82), Santa Barbara,Santa Barbara,CA
• Albert Steenbergen (76), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Catharina van Eekelen (86), Roosendaal
• Albert Calvin Todd (61), Panama City, Bay, Florida, Verenigde Staten
• Alfred Julius Kristiansen Trones (85), Grong, Nord-Trøndelag, Norge

• 1982 » Robbie Gould, American football player
• 1982 » Ryan Carnes, American actor and producer
• 1984 » Nora Kirkpatrick, American actress and musician
• 1984 » Princess Sofia, Duchess of Värmland
• 1984 » Syndric Steptoe, American football player
• 1985 » Aristeidis Grigoriadis, Greek swimmer
• 1985 » Rudra Pratap Singh, Indian cricketer
• 1985 » Shannon Bobbitt, American basketball player
• 1986 » Matt Niskanen, American ice hockey player
• 1986 » Sean Edwards, English race car driver († 2013)

• 1980 » Charles Deutsch, French engineer and businessman, co-founded DB (b. 1911)
• 1982 » Jean-Marie Seroney, Kenyan activist and politician (b. 1927)
• 1983 » Gul Khan Nasir, Pakistani poet, historian, and politician (b. 1914)
• 1983 » Lucienne Boyer, French singer and actress (b. 1903)
• 1985 » Burleigh Grimes, American baseball player and manager (b. 1893)
• 1985 » Burr Tillstrom, American actor and puppeteer (b. 1917)
• 1988 » Roy Orbison, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1936)
• 1989 » Frances Bavier, American actress (b. 1902)
• 1989 » John Payne, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1912)
• 1989 » Sammy Fain, American pianist and composer (b. 1902)

• 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.
• February 16 » Hezbollah is founded.
• June 19 » Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.
• June 23 » A terrorist bomb explodes at Narita International Airport near Tokyo. An hour later, the same group detonates a second bomb aboard Air India Flight 182, bringing the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.
• June 30 » Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
• November 20 » Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.
• December 12 » Arrow Air Flight 1285, a McDonnell Douglas DC-8, crashes after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland, killing all 256 people on board, including 236 members of the United States Army's 101st Airborne Division.

The temperature on December 6, 1985 was between 6.3 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain during 4.7 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (13%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.