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• Julian Brent Chretien, Port Alberni, Vancouver Island, Canada († 1998)

• Albertus Johannes Rottink (83), Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Alec Edwin Rayner (71)
• Albertus H. Roestenburg (75), Tilburg
• Bertha Stephania de Paradé (74), Bornem, Antwerpen, België
• Cyriel Steyaert (80), Roeselare
• Abraham Jansen (64), Weesp Noord-Holland
• Christina Petronella van Beek (79), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelia Metje Faasse (85), St. Philipsland, Zeeland, Nederland
• Daniël Vijlbrief (64), Baarn
• Derk van Delden (70), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland

• 1984 » Arkady Vyatchanin, Russian swimmer
• 1984 » Sean May, American basketball player
• 1985 » Dudi Sela, Israeli tennis player
• 1985 » Ricardo Vilar, Brazilian footballer
• 1985 » Rudy Fernández, Spanish basketball player
• 1986 » Aiden McGeady, Scottish-born Irish footballer
• 1986 » Alexander Tettey, Norwegian footballer
• 1986 » Cameron Barker, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 » Eunhyuk, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1986 » Maurice Manificat, French skier

• 1979 » Edgar Buchanan, American actor (b. 1903)
• 1979 » Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani lawyer and politician, 4th President of Pakistan (b. 1928)
• 1980 » Red Sovine, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1917)
• 1983 » Bernard Vukas, Croatian football player, played for 1953 FIFA's "Rest of the World" team against England at Wembley (b. 1927)
• 1983 » Gloria Swanson, American actress (b. 1899)
• 1984 » Oleg Antonov, Russian-Ukrainian engineer and businessman, founded Antonov (b. 1906)
• 1985 » Kate Roberts, Welsh author and activist (b. 1891)
• 1987 » C. L. Moore, American author and academic (b. 1911)
• 1987 » Chögyam Trungpa, Tibetan guru, poet, and scholar (b. 1939)
• 1987 » Sachchidananda Vatsyayan, Indian journalist and author (b. 1911)

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. Judith
13. Amanda
14. Anne
15. Nicole
16. Saskia

• 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 20 » Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.
• 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.
• September 2 » Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politicians and former MPs M. Alalasundaram and V. Dharmalingam are shot dead.
• 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.
• October 29 » Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia.
• November 23 » Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the aircraft, but 60 people die in the raid.

The temperature on April 4, 1985 was between 9.8 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.