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• James Dean Schilling, Sheldon, O´Brien County, Iowa († 2024)
• Marcel Metelmann († 2016)

• Cornelia (Cor) Jagtenberg (71), Leidschendam
• Cornelis A. Knijnenburg (72), Wassenaar, Wassenaar, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Arlyn Orlando Malchow (28)
• Baatje Peinder (64), Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Nederland
• Catharina Maria Poppen (73), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Anna Maria Broekhof (70), Noordwijk
• Alberto Kieffer ,Capitán del Ejército de Salvación Seccional Junin-Buenos Aires-Argentina,electromecanico,soldador,tornero,mecanico,ajustador,soldadura autogena y soldadura electrica, (91), Junin, Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Adriana Kruit (88), Woerden
• Catherine Jane Baker (74), Salt Lake City,Salt Lake,Utah,United States
• Andrée BREUCQ (75), Denain, Nord, Frankrijk

• 1983 » Adam Lind, American baseball player
• 1983 » Ryan Guettler, Australian motocross racer
• 1985 » Loui Eriksson, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1985 » Neil McGregor, Scottish footballer
• 1985 » Tom Fletcher, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1986 » DeAngelo Smith, American football player
• 1986 » Lacey Von Erich, American wrestler
• 1987 » Darius Boyd, Australian rugby league player
• 1987 » Jan Charouz, Czech race car driver
• 1987 » Jeremih, American singer, songwriter, and record producer

• 1974 » Dizzy Dean, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1910)
• 1975 » Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian author (b. 1893)
• 1980 » Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1890)
• 1980 » Don "Red" Barry, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 1988 » Bruiser Brody, American football player and wrestler (b. 1946)
• 1989 » Itubwa Amram, Nauruan pastor and politician (b. 1922)
• 1991 » John Patrick Spiegel, American psychiatrist and academic (b. 1911)
• 1994 » Jean Borotra, French tennis player (b. 1898)
• 1995 » Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1911)
• 1996 » Victims of TWA Flight 800

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 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.
• May 31 » United States–Canada tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
• October 29 » Major General Samuel K. Doe is announced the winner of the first multi-party election in Liberia.
• November 13 » Xavier Suárez is sworn in as Miami's first Cuban-born mayor.
• November 19 » Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.
• December 27 » Palestinian guerrillas kill eighteen people inside the airports of Rome, Italy, and Vienna, Austria.

The temperature on July 17, 1985 was between 8.6 °C and 23.9 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.