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• Linda van Helden († 2001)
• Jeroen Hoenstok, 's-Gravenhage, Nederland
• Teun Matijn Stomps, Dordrecht († 1987)
• Lean Mossel († 2002)
• Michel Tonny van Rooij, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland

• Bregje KWADIJK (71)
• ANNA VAN HEMERT (56), ROTTERDAM
• Antonius van Gennip (54), Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant (Nederland)
• Achiel-Juliaan Verbeke (89), Roeselare West-Vlaanderen België
• Adrianus Hendriksen (80), Kesteren, Nederland
• Catherine Lenore Swenson Brockbank (61), Spanish Fork, Utah County, Utah
• Adriana Hendriks Ravensberg(en) (88), Dordrecht
• Agnes Dossie Moseley (73), Tyler, Smith, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Elisabeth Voets (85), Melveren
• Adriana Hendrika(2) van den Bos (77), Delft

• 1983 » Agyness Deyn, English model, actress, and singer
• 1984 » Oussama Mellouli, Tunisian swimmer
• 1984 » Sofia Arvidsson, Swedish tennis player
• 1985 » Ron Vlaar, Dutch footballer
• 1985 » Simon Francis, English footballer
• 1985 » Stacy Lewis, American golfer
• 1986 » Diego Godín, Uruguayan footballer
• 1987 » Hasheem Thabeet, Tanzanian basketball player
• 1987 » Luc Bourdon, Canadian ice hockey player († 2008)
• 1987 » Theresa Goh, Singaporean swimmer

• 1975 » Morgan Taylor, American hurdler and coach (b. 1903)
• 1977 » Janani Luwum, bishop, Church of Uganda, martyr (b. c.1922)
• 1977 » Rózsa Péter, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1905)
• 1980 » Erich Hückel, German physicist and chemist (b. 1895)
• 1984 » M. A. G. Osmani, Bangladeshi general (b. 1918)
• 1990 » Keith Haring, American painter and activist (b. 1958)
• 1991 » Enrique Bermúdez, Nicaraguan lieutenant and engineer (b. 1932)
• 1992 » Angela Carter, English novelist, short story writer (b. 1940)
• 1992 » Herman Wold, Norwegian-Swedish economist and statistician (b. 1908)
• 1992 » Jânio Quadros, Brazilian politician, 22nd President of Brazil (b. 1917)

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

• 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 1 » The first British mobile phone call is made by Michael Harrison to his father Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone.
• 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.
• April 21 » The compound of the militant group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord surrenders to federal authorities in Arkansas after a two-day government siege.
• May 20 » Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.
• June 15 » Rembrandt's painting Danaë is attacked by a man (later judged insane) who throws sulfuric acid on the canvas and cuts it twice with a knife.
• August 2 » Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.

The temperature on February 16, 1985 was between -9.4 °C and 5.0 °C and averaged -2.7 °C. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.