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• Vincent Trienpont

• Aletta Maria Elisabeth van Muijlwijk (92), Amsterdam
• Blazina Jacoba de Kam (93), Kamperland
• Brand Timmer (81), Harderwijk
• Catharina Cornelia de Ridder (82), Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Cornelia van Eck (81)
• Boukje Bosma (86), Groningen, Nederland
• Carolina Hendrica Peters (63), Brunssum,, Limburg, Nederland
• Adrianus Johahannes van LOON (89), Roosendaal (N.Br. Nl)
• Anthony Danowski (78)
• Catharina Stijntje Rietveld (66), Rotterdam

• 1983 » Braylon Edwards, American football player
• 1983 » Franklin Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1983 » Mélanie Laurent, French actress
• 1984 » Andrew Ellis, New Zealand rugby player
• 1984 » David Odonkor, German footballer
• 1984 » James Wisniewski, American ice hockey player
• 1984 » Marco Paoloni, Italian footballer
• 1985 » Georgios Samaras, Greek footballer
• 1985 » Jamaal Westerman, American football player
• 1986 » Charlotte Church, Welsh singer-songwriter and actress

• 1974 » Tim Horton, Canadian ice hockey player and businessman, co-founded Tim Hortons (b. 1930)
• 1980 » Alfred Andersch, German-Swiss author (b. 1914)
• 1982 » Gershom Scholem, German-Israeli historian and philosopher (b. 1897)
• 1984 » Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1985 » Louis Hayward, South African-American actor (b. 1909)
• 1986 » Helen Hooven Santmyer, American novelist (b. 1895)
• 1991 » Dorothy Auchterlonie Green, Australian poet, critic, and academic (b. 1915)
• 1993 » Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist and geophysicist (b. 1888)
• 1994 » Johannes Steinhoff, German general and pilot (b. 1913)
• 1996 » Morton Gould, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1913)

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 21 » Galaxy Airlines Flight 203 crashes near Reno–Tahoe International Airport in Reno, Nevada, killing 70 people.
• 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.
• May 25 » Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
• 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.
• June 30 » Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
• September 2 » Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politicians and former MPs M. Alalasundaram and V. Dharmalingam are shot dead.

The temperature on February 21, 1985 was between -0.2 °C and 4.3 °C and averaged 1.4 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.