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• Laurel Elizabeth Erb, Downers Grove, IL
• Tjalling Mattias BIJL, Bergen op Zoom († 1985)

• Charles Cornelis van Breugel (74), Boxtel
• Arend Ooms (83), Hudson, VS
• Albertus Christianus de Frenne (84), Hilversum
• Ansje Jansje Bonnes (69), Bergen
• Catharina Kooij (91)
• Cecilia Jacoba Johanna Fok (70), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antoon Fredrik Wiegel (67), Schiedam
• Annigje van der Graaf (87), Moordrecht, Zuidplas, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Alice Marie Rammeloo (87)
• Anna Maria de Groot (76), Baarn

• 1984 » Andri Eleftheriou, Cypriot sport shooter
• 1984 » Paul Dano, American actor
• 1984 » Wieke Dijkstra, Dutch field hockey player
• 1985 » Ai Miyazato, Japanese golfer
• 1985 » Dire Tune, Ethiopian runner
• 1985 » José Ernesto Sosa, Argentinian footballer
• 1986 » Aoiyama Kōsuke, Bulgarian sumo wrestler
• 1986 » Diego Hypólito, Brazilian gymnast
• 1986 » Lázaro Borges, Cuban pole vaulter
• 1986 » Marvin Williams, American basketball player

• 1979 » Paul Popenoe, American explorer and scholar, founded Relationship counseling (b. 1888)
• 1981 » Anya Phillips, Chinese-American band manager and co-founder of the Mudd Club (b. 1955)
• 1984 » Lee Krasner, American painter and educator (b. 1908)
• 1986 » Len Bias, American basketball player (b. 1963)
• 1987 » Margaret Carver Leighton, American author (b. 1896)
• 1988 » Fernand Seguin, Canadian biochemist and academic (b. 1922)
• 1988 » Gladys Spellman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1918)
• 1989 » Betti Alver, Estonian author and poet (b. 1906)
• 1990 » George Addes, American trade union leader, co-founded United Automobile Workers (b. 1911)
• 1990 » Isabella Smith Andrews, New Zealand writer (b. 1905)

• 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 7 » Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
• January 10 » Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government.
• 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.
• April 19 » Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later.
• August 12 » Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes into Osutaka ridge in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520, to become the worst single-plane air disaster.
• November 20 » Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.

The temperature on June 19, 1985 was between 9.6 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 3.7 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (8%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.