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• Els Wolfs, Hasselt, België († 2012)
• Anne-Co Struijk, Dordrecht
• Melanie Joy (Mel) Sikkema, Hobart Tasmania (Australia)

• Abraham Gerards (67), Utrecht
• Anthonij Obrink (76), Aalten
• Anthonia van Boggelen (80), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Arnold Beerts (70), Luik, België
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• Anthonia van Boggelen (80), Utrecht
• Adrianus Loos (94)
• Antonius Bernardus Sonneveld (88), Doesburg
• Bernardina Johanna Frederika de Vries (84), Amsterdam
• Alan WITHERS (62), Guisborough,Cleveland,ENGELAND

• 1982 » Adriano, Brazilian footballer
• 1982 » Brian Bruney, American baseball player
• 1982 » Daniel Merriweather, Australian singer-songwriter
• 1983 » Kevin Rudolf, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1984 » AB de Villiers, South African cricketer
• 1984 » Drew Miller, American ice hockey player
• 1984 » Jimmy Jacobs, American wrestler
• 1984 » Katie Hill, Australian 3.0 point wheelchair basketball player
• 1984 » Marcin Gortat, Polish basketball player
• 1985 » Anders Jacobsen, Norwegian ski jumper

• 1977 » Janani Luwum, Ugandan archbishop and saint (b. 1922)
• 1979 » William Gargan, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1982 » Lee Strasberg, American actor and director (b. 1901)
• 1982 » Nestor Chylak, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1922)
• 1982 » Thelonious Monk, American pianist and composer (b. 1917)
• 1986 » Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian-American philosopher and author (b. 1895)
• 1988 » John M. Allegro, English archaeologist and scholar (b. 1923)
• 1988 » Karpoori Thakur, Indian educator and politician, 11th Chief Minister of Bihar (b. 1924)
• 1989 » Lefty Gomez, American baseball player (b. 1908)
• 1990 » Jean-Marc Boivin, French mountaineer, skier, and pilot (b. 1951)

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.
• March 31 » The first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE (then the WWF), takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York City.
• May 5 » Ronald Reagan visits the military cemetery at Bitburg and the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he makes a speech.
• June 30 » Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
• August 23 » Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
• November 13 » The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts and melts a glacier, causing a lahar (volcanic mudslide) that buries Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people.
• November 15 » A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.

The temperature on February 17, 1985 was between -5.5 °C and 2.5 °C and averaged -1.8 °C. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (27%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.