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• Willem Heirbaut, SINT-NIKLAAS († 1985)
• Minie Hofstede
• Kim Rijzinga, Groningen
• Esther Krijgsman († 1985)

• Anton Funk (85)
• ANNA MARIA KAPOEN (79), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Antonius Josephus Hooberghs (66), Diest 3290(Belgie)
• Anna Maria Willemina Beddinkhaus (88), Emmen
• Anna Josepha Elisabeth de Cock (82), Tilburg
• Anton Zwart (69)
• Arnold Van de Voorde (52), Sint Amands
• Ariaantje Schoorl (90), Huisduinen, Nederland
• Adelson DETANDT (92), Renaix,9600,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Anna Maria Willemina Beddinkhaus (88), Barger-Compascuum, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1983 » Édgar Dueñas, Mexican footballer
• 1984 » Branko Cvetković, Serbian basketball player
• 1984 » Guillaume Hoarau, French footballer
• 1985 » Brad Mills, American baseball player
• 1985 » David Marshall, Scottish footballer
• 1985 » Kenichi Matsuyama, Japanese actor
• 1986 » Alexandre Barthe, French footballer
• 1986 » Matty Fryatt, English footballer
• 1987 » Anna Chakvetadze, Russian tennis player
• 1987 » Chris Cohen, English footballer

• 1976 » Otto Tief, Estonian lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1889)
• 1977 » Tom Pryce, Welsh race car driver (b. 1949)
• 1980 » Jay Silverheels, Canadian-American actor (b. 1912)
• 1981 » Yip Harburg, American songwriter and composer (b. 1896)
• 1982 » John Belushi, American actor (b. 1949)
• 1984 » Pierre Cochereau, French organist and composer (b. 1924)
• 1984 » Tito Gobbi, Italian operatic baritone (b. 1913)
• 1984 » William Powell, American actor (b. 1892)
• 1988 » Alberto Olmedo, Argentine comedian and actor (b. 1933)
• 1990 » Gary Merrill, American actor and director (b. 1915)

• 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 1 » The first British mobile phone call is made by Michael Harrison to his father Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone.
• March 17 » Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles murder spree.
• March 20 » Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
• April 23 » Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months.
• August 2 » Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, crashes at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.
• November 19 » Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.

The temperature on March 5, 1985 was between 0.4 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (35%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.