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

• Adrianus Wilhelmus van Ostaijen (77), Roosendaal
• Anna Agnes Sulmann (84), Barger-Compascuum
• Thio Kiem Peng Nio (82), Wageningen
• Anna Alberda Vedder (Vedders,Fedder,Veder,Verders,Feders,Ferder) (75), Schinnen, Nederland
• Anna Jacoba Nelis (86), Sassenheim, Teylingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Alberda Vedder (75), Beek, Limburg, Nederland
• Agnes MrsHale Scarbrough (58), Shelby County, Alabama
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Van Ostaijen (77), Roosendaal
• Albert Manley Babcock (92), Volusia, Florida, United States
• Adrianus Pieter Brouwer (16), Waddinxveen

• 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)

• 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 3 » A magnitude 8.3 earthquake strikes the Valparaíso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a million people homeless.
• April 21 » The compound of the militant group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord surrenders to federal authorities in Arkansas after a two-day government siege.
• May 13 » Police bombed MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia, killing six adults and five children, and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
• October 7 » Four men from the Palestine Liberation Front hijack the MSAchille Lauro off the coast of Egypt.
• November 19 » Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
• November 19 » Police in Baling, Malaysia, lay siege to houses occupied by an Islamic sect of about 400 people led by Ibrahim Mahmud.

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.