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• Margaret Ellen (Meg) Deherder, Royal Oak, Oakland County, Michigan, VS († 2008)
• Wietske Veenman, Hoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• Arie Schoneveld (57), Heemstede
• Arie Schoneveld (57), Hoofddorp, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham Van den Berg (82), Amsterdam,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Meijdam (93), Utrecht
• Barbara Jean Otto (53)
• Aaltje Hendriks van der Boon (82), Twijzelerheide, Gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Antonius Maria Zanders (68), Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland
• Adam Johannes Maria van Bekhoven (57), Breda,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Hoskam (69), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Anna Catharina Soelman (Suelmann) (93), Musselkanaal, Stadskanaal, Groningen, Nederland

• 1984 » Christy Carlson Romano, American actress and singer
• 1984 » Fernando Torres, Spanish footballer
• 1984 » Vikram Banerjee, English cricketer
• 1985 » Morgan Amalfitano, French footballer
• 1985 » Nicolas Lombaerts, Belgian footballer
• 1985 » Ronnie Brewer, American basketball player
• 1986 » Dean Geyer, South African-Australian singer-songwriter and actor
• 1986 » Julián Magallanes, Argentinian footballer
• 1986 » Román Torres, Panamanian footballer
• 1986 » Ruby Rose, Australian actress and model

• 1977 » Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, English politician, 9th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1909)
• 1977 » Terukuni Manzō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 38th Yokozuna (b. 1919)
• 1978 » Jacques Brugnon, French tennis player (b. 1895)
• 1981 » Gerry Bertier, American football player (b. 1953)
• 1983 » Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1891)
• 1990 » Lev Yashin, Russian footballer (b. 1929)
• 1990 » Maurice Cloche, French director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1907)
• 1992 » Georges Delerue, French composer (b. 1925)
• 1993 » Polykarp Kusch, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1994 » Lewis Grizzard, American writer and humorist (b. 1946)

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.
• January 13 » A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.
• May 11 » Fifty-six spectators die and more than 200 are injured in the Bradford City stadium fire.
• May 20 » Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.
• September 14 » Penang Bridge, the longest bridge in Malaysia, connecting the island of Penang to the mainland, opens to traffic.
• October 30 » Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
• November 13 » Xavier Suárez is sworn in as Miami's first Cuban-born mayor.

The temperature on March 20, 1985 was between -1.4 °C and 2.5 °C and averaged 0.4 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 6.1 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.