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• Angela Francisca Hendrika van de Hoogen, Mill/St. Hubert († 1996)

• Bernardus SIERENS (86), Eeklo, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Bartholomeus Hendricus Bakker (66)
• Albert CEULEMANS (68)
• Adrianus Andreas Masseurs (80), Breda,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Billy Edward Parker (44), Salt Lake, Utah, United States
• Attje Tolsma (91)
• Anna Maria Delen (87), Herentals
• Antonia van Beusekom (73), Meeuwen
• Alphonsus Cornelius Josephus Verrijt (89), Tilburg
• Bernardus Gerardus Joseph Houtman (33), Gennep, Limburg, Nederland

• 1983 » Luca Ceccarelli, Italian footballer
• 1983 » Riccardo Musetti, Italian footballer
• 1984 » Adrian D'Souza, Indian field hockey player
• 1984 » Benoît Assou-Ekotto, French born Cameroonian international footballer, left-back
• 1984 » Chris Bosh, American basketball player
• 1984 » Lucy Wangui Kabuu, Kenyan runner
• 1984 » Park Bom, South Korean singer
• 1984 » Philipp Petzschner, German tennis player
• 1985 » Haruka Ayase, Japanese actress and singer
• 1985 » Lana, American wrestler and manager

• 1976 » Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, English field marshal (b. 1887)
• 1978 » Park Mok-wol, influential Korean poet and academic (b. 1916)
• 1980 » Óscar Romero, Salvadoran archbishop (b. 1917)
• 1984 » Sam Jaffe, American actor (b. 1891)
• 1985 » Raoul Ubac, French painter, sculptor, photographer and engraver (b. 1910)
• 1988 » Turhan Feyzioğlu, Turkish academic and politician, 27th Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1922)
• 1990 » Ray Goulding, American comedian and radio host (b. 1922)
• 1991 » John Kerr, Australian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1914)
• 1993 » Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer, actor, and playwright (b. 1905)
• 1993 » John Hersey, American journalist and author (b. 1914)

• 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 11 » Mikhail Gorbachev is elected to the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union making Gorbachev the USSR's de facto, and last, head of state.
• April 19 » Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later.
• June 23 » A terrorist bomb explodes at Narita International Airport near Tokyo. An hour later, the same group detonates a second bomb aboard Air India Flight 182, bringing the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.
• October 10 » US Navy aircraft intercept an Egyptian airliner carrying the perpetrators of the Achille Lauro hijacking, and force it to land in Italy.
• November 23 » Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the aircraft, but 60 people die in the raid.
• December 20 » Pope John Paul II announces the institution of World Youth Day.

The temperature on March 24, 1985 was between 3.7 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.