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• Heike Kwak
• Bettine Kleine, Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland

• Anna Vissers (79), Herentals, Antwerpen, België
• Angelica Maria Amelberga De Kever (81), Temse
• Alice Lee Tindale (77), Mona Vale, NSW, Australia
• Dirk de Meer (83), Franeker Friesland
• Anna Maria Martens (71), Meerlo
• Edna A Kurtz (90), Volusia, Florida, Verenigde Staten
• alida BAARS (78), oud-beijerland
• Antonius Martinus Akkermans (62), Breda
• Christiaan Wynand Le Roux (77), of Cape Province, South Africa
• Adriana Knoops (89)

• 1982 » Issah Gabriel Ahmed, Ghanaian footballer
• 1983 » Custódio Castro, Portuguese footballer
• 1983 » Pedram Javaheri, Iranian-American meteorologist and journalist
• 1983 » Woo Seung-yeon, South Korean model and actress († 2009)
• 1984 » Dmitri Kruglov, Estonian footballer
• 1984 » Sarah Hagan, American actress
• 1985 » Tim Bridgman, English race car driver
• 1986 » Giannis Kontoes, Greek footballer
• 1986 » Mark Ballas, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, dancer, and actor
• 1987 » Guillaume Latendresse, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1974 » Duke Ellington, American pianist and composer (b. 1899)
• 1976 » Denise Pelletier, Canadian actress (b. 1923)
• 1979 » Ernest Bullock, English organist, composer, and educator (b. 1890)
• 1981 » Herbert Müller, Swiss race car driver (b. 1940)
• 1984 » Vince McMahon Sr., American wrestling promoter and businessman, founded WWE (b. 1914)
• 1988 » Freddie Frith, English motorcycle road racer (b. 1909)
• 1990 » Arthur Villeneuve, Canadian painter (b. 1910)
• 1991 » Gene Clark, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1944)
• 1992 » Hitoshi Ogawa, Japanese race car driver (b. 1956)
• 1995 » Harold Wilson, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)

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.
• January 13 » A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.
• March 8 » A supposed failed assassination attempt on Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon kills at least 45 and injures 175 others.
• March 31 » The first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE (then the WWF), takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York City.
• August 12 » Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes into Osutaka ridge in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520, to become the worst single-plane air disaster.
• 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 13 » The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts and melts a glacier, causing a lahar (volcanic mudslide) that buries Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people.

The temperature on May 24, 1985 was between 6.3 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (10%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.