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• *Brock Timothy AINSLIE († 1985)
• carlien van ninhuijs, helden-panningen
• Suzanne Charlotte Bakker, Heerhugowaard († 1989)
• Willem van Rheden († 2020)

• Andrew Pieter BOGAARDS (83), Pella Marion County Iowa U.S.A
• Anna Gertrud Hamers (88)
• Alida Cornelia Veerman (82)
• Albert Holthof (93), Bedum
• Annigje Martens (79), Hoogeveen nederland
• Anna Alberda Vedder (75), Beek, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Agnes Suelmann (84), Barger-Compascuum, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Bastiaan Pieter Rowbos (93), Bodegraven
• Charlie Russell (82)
• Antje Dekker (86), Heerhugowaard

• 1983 » Danny Granger, American basketball player
• 1983 » Joanne King, Irish actress
• 1983 » Miranda Kerr, Australian model
• 1984 » Bárbara Lennie, Spanish actress
• 1984 » Edixon Perea, Colombian footballer
• 1984 » Jenna Shoemaker, American triathlete
• 1984 » Nelson Évora, Ivorian-Portuguese triple jumper
• 1985 » Brent Seabrook, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1985 » Curt Hawkins, American wrestler
• 1987 » Chun Woo-hee, South Korean actress

• 1980 » M. Canagaratnam, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1924)
• 1982 » Archibald MacLeish, American poet, playwright, and lawyer (b. 1892)
• 1986 » Sibte Hassan, Pakistani journalist, scholar, and activist (b. 1916)
• 1991 » Don Siegel, American director and producer (b. 1912)
• 1991 » Steve Marriott, English singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1947)
• 1992 » Benny Hill, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1924)
• 1992 » Marjorie Gestring, American springboard diver (b. 1922)
• 1993 » Cantinflas, Mexican actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1911)
• 1995 » Milovan Đilas, Yugoslav communist, politician, theorist and author (b. 1911)
• 1996 » Trần Văn Trà, Vietnamese general and politician (b. 1918)

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. Anne
15. Nicole
16. Jennifer

• 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.
• February 5 » Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.
• February 16 » Hezbollah is founded.
• 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.
• May 29 » Heysel Stadium disaster: Thirty-nine association football fans die and hundreds are injured when a dilapidated retaining wall collapses.
• October 26 » The Australian government returns ownership of Uluru to the local Pitjantjatjara Aboriginals.

The temperature on April 20, 1985 was between 1.2 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.