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• Amy Elizabeth Morgan
• Christa Sylke Femke Marieke Wendy de Beurs
• Remi van Rooij, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Jimmy Poleij († 2019)

• Antje Nijboer (86), Drachten
• Catharina Elisabeth Philomena Nijsten (72), Antwerpen (B)
• Albert Daniels (63), Tiel
• Anna Codde (80), Gent
• Armand Joseph Louwet (73), Wellen, België
• Adriaan Kühne (92), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Blanche Germaine Waeghe (76), A.Z. Sint Jan, Ruddershove 10, Brugge
• Antonia Everdina Buddingh (74)
• Antje Nijboer (86), Drachten, Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje Vuil (71), Egmond aan Zee

• 1982 » David Oliver, American hurdler
• 1982 » Kelly Clarkson, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1983 » Hanna Melnychenko, Ukrainian heptathlete
• 1985 » Mike Rodgers, American sprinter
• 1986 » Aaron Cunningham, American baseball player
• 1987 » Ben Howard, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1987 » Jan Vertonghen, Belgian international footballer
• 1987 » Kris Letang, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1987 » Rein Taaramäe, Estonian cyclist
• 1987 » Varun Dhawan, Indian actor

• 1975 » Pete Ham, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)
• 1976 » Mark Tobey, American-Swiss painter and educator (b. 1890)
• 1980 » Alejo Carpentier, Swiss-Cuban musicologist and author (b. 1904)
• 1982 » Ville Ritola, Finnish runner (b. 1896)
• 1983 » Erol Güngör, Turkish sociologist, psychologist, and academic (b. 1938)
• 1983 » Rolf Stommelen, German race car driver (b. 1943)
• 1984 » Rafael Pérez y Pérez, Spanish author (b. 1891)
• 1993 » Oliver Tambo, South African lawyer and activist (b. 1917)
• 1993 » Tran Duc Thao, Vietnamese philosopher and theorist (b. 1917)
• 1995 » Lodewijk Bruckman, Dutch painter (b. 1903)

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.
• May 29 » Heysel Stadium disaster: Thirty-nine association football fans die and hundreds are injured when a dilapidated retaining wall collapses.
• July 10 » An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 stalls and crashes near Uchkuduk, Uzbekistan (then part of the Soviet Union), killing all 200 people on board in the USSR's worst-ever airline disaster.
• August 27 » The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Major General Ibrahim Babangida.
• September 19 » Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.
• November 15 » A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
• December 27 » Palestinian guerrillas kill eighteen people inside the airports of Rome, Italy, and Vienna, Austria.

The temperature on April 24, 1985 was between -1.7 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 11.8 hours of sunshine (82%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.