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• Johannes Muller, Zoutkamp, Ulrum, Groningen, Nederland
• Pieter van 't Velt, Hilversum

• Annie Kay (Brown) Wyand (86), Pittsfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Achiel Travers (77)
• Adriana Arends (60)
• Christina VAN ROEKEL (97), Holstein, IA, Iowa, United States of America
• Adriana Dirkje (Sjaan) van der Straaten (77), Dordrecht
• Adam Pierre Subritzky (0)
• Antonia Johanna Cornelia Rasué (69), Amsterdam
• Dirk Broekema (69), Leusden, Utrecht, Nederland
• Annechien Popkes (77), Gasselte, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anna Maria Heestermans (76), Wuustwezel

• 1982 » Domingo Cisma, Spanish footballer
• 1982 » Jameer Nelson, American basketball player
• 1983 » Mikel Arruabarrena, Spanish footballer
• 1984 » Maurice Ager, American basketball player, singer, and producer
• 1984 » Shōhōzan Yūya, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1985 » David Gallagher, American actor
• 1987 » Davide Lanzafame, Italian footballer
• 1987 » Magdalena Neuner, German biathlete
• 1987 » Michael B. Jordan, American actor
• 1987 » Sam Coulson, English guitarist

• 1976 » Percy Faith, Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1908)
• 1977 » Sergey Ilyushin, Russian engineer and businessman, founded the Ilyushin Design Company (b. 1894)
• 1978 » Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist and coach (b. 1893)
• 1979 » Allen Tate, American poet and academic (b. 1899)
• 1980 » Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and author (b. 1900)
• 1981 » Bill Haley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1925)
• 1981 » M. C. Chagla, Indian jurist and politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs (b. 1900)
• 1984 » Yuri Andropov, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1914)
• 1989 » Osamu Tezuka, Japanese illustrator, animator, and producer (b. 1928)
• 1994 » Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1934)

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. 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.
• May 31 » United States–Canada tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
• July 10 » The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
• July 13 » The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia, as well as other venues such as Moscow and Sydney.
• August 7 » Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
• August 23 » Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
• October 7 » The Mameyes landslide kills almost 200 people in Puerto Rico.

The temperature on February 9, 1985 was between -6.6 °C and -3.0 °C and averaged -4.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.