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• Jack Wijker, Heemskerk, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1988)
• Amanda Gail Fenstermaker († 2005)
• Gerardina Henrica Wilhelmina Tra, Goirle

• Adriana Wilhelmina den Biggelaar (83), Zevenbergen
• Adriana Duiveman (61), Beverwijk
• Barbara Joan ALLISON (51), Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia
• Antoine Machielsen (71), Turnhout, België
• Clara NUTTENS (83), Château-Thierry, 02168, Aisne, Picardie, France
• Catharina Thissen (79), Maaseik (B)
• Aaltje van de Beek (90), Kampen, Overijssel, The Netherlands
• Cornelis Matthijs Smits (74), Hoofddorp
• Arend Jan Pasman (66)
• Antonius Linders (80), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1983 » Ben Foster, English footballer
• 1983 » Stephen Weiss, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1984 » Jonathan Blondel, Belgian footballer
• 1984 » Maxi López, Argentinian footballer
• 1985 » Jari-Matti Latvala, Finnish race car driver
• 1985 » Leona Lewis, English singer-songwriter and producer
• 1986 » Amanda Bynes, American actress
• 1986 » Annalisa Cucinotta, Italian cyclist
• 1986 » Sergio Sánchez Ortega, Spanish footballer
• 1986 » Stephanie Cox, American soccer player

• 1978 » Ray Noble, English bandleader, composer, and actor (b. 1903)
• 1981 » Juan Trippe, American businessman, founded Pan American World Airways (b. 1899)
• 1982 » Warren Oates, American actor (b. 1928)
• 1983 » Jimmy Bloomfield, English footballer and manager (b. 1934)
• 1986 » Peter Pears, English tenor and educator (b. 1910)
• 1987 » Tom Sestak, American football player (b. 1936)
• 1988 » Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (b. 1907)
• 1990 » Sarah Vaughan, American singer (b. 1924)
• 1991 » Charles Goren, American bridge player and author (b. 1901)
• 1991 » Graham Greene, English novelist, playwright, and critic (b. 1904)

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.
• March 20 » Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
• 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.
• May 29 » Heysel Stadium disaster: Thirty-nine association football fans die and hundreds are injured when a dilapidated retaining wall collapses.
• June 17 » Space Shuttle program: STS-51-G mission: Space Shuttle Discovery launches carrying Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a payload specialist.
• November 6 » In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá.
• November 15 » A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.

The temperature on April 3, 1985 was between 8.4 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (32%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.