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• Maartje Hendrikje de Wit († 1998)
• Johan Sebastian de Beurs, Auckland (Nieuw-Zeeland), Nieuw Zeeland
• Violaine COPPENS, Anderlecht, 1070, Bruxelles, Belgique
• Sigrid van Leerzem, Middelburg († 1988)

• Arnoldus van de Wouw (52), Tilburg
• Cornelia van den Beemd (82), Breda
• Charles Felix Nollet (78), Tourcoing, 59 (F)
• Chrilla Alberta Mills (89), Saginaw, Saginaw County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Andries Cornelis STEMPHER (71), Kampen
• alida elisabeth gesina eijsten (90), amsterdam
• August De Beuckeleer (53), Lier, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Arnoldus Joannes van Loon (77), Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Dorothea Drenth (75)
• Cornelia Johanna Hessels (86), Geertruidenberg

• 1983 » Alessandro Diamanti, Italian footballer
• 1983 » Daniel Sordo, Spanish race car driver
• 1983 » Maynor Figueroa, Honduran footballer
• 1983 » Tina Maze, Slovenian skier
• 1984 » Saulius Mikoliūnas, Lithuanian footballer
• 1984 » Thabo Sefolosha, Swiss basketball player
• 1985 » Ashley Harkleroad, American tennis player
• 1985 » Kyle Busch, American race car driver
• 1985 » Lily Allen, English singer-songwriter and actress
• 1985 » Sarah Hughes, American figure skater

• 1980 » Clarrie Grimmett, New Zealand-Australian cricketer (b. 1891)
• 1983 » Norm Van Brocklin, American football player and coach (b. 1926)
• 1984 » Bob Clampett, American animator, director, and producer (b. 1913)
• 1984 » Jack Barry, American game show host and producer, co-founded Barry & Enright Productions (b. 1918)
• 1985 » Attilio Bettega, Italian race car driver (b. 1951)
• 1985 » Larry Clinton, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1909)
• 1986 » Henri Toivonen, Finnish race car driver (b. 1956)
• 1986 » Sergio Cresto, American race car driver (b. 1956)
• 1989 » Giuseppe Siri, Italian cardinal (b. 1906)
• 1989 » Veniamin Kaverin, Russian author (b. 1902)

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 16 » Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991.
• 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.
• August 22 » British Airtours Flight 28M suffers an engine fire during takeoff at Manchester Airport. The pilots abort but due to inefficient evacuation procedures 55 people are killed, mostly from smoke inhalation.
• September 2 » Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politicians and former MPs M. Alalasundaram and V. Dharmalingam are shot dead.
• 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.
• December 12 » Arrow Air Flight 1285, a McDonnell Douglas DC-8, crashes after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland, killing all 256 people on board, including 236 members of the United States Army's 101st Airborne Division.

The temperature on May 2, 1985 was between 4.2 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 5.2 mm of rain during 5.8 hours. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (11%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.