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• Daniël Stuart, Geleen
• Tyler Stoub

• Catharina Sophia Magdalena Roos (84), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Desmond Patrick McEntegart (66), Headfort Park, Kells, County Meath, Ireland
• Allegonda Christina Timrott (80), Rotterdam, Netherlands
• Aprigio Ribeiro de Oliveira (86)
• Barbara van Gerven (68), Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Sophia Magdalena Roos (84), Schiedam
• Adrianus Nicolaas Arkesteijn (80), Schipluiden
• Albertus van Donselaar (63), Woudenberg, Utrecht, Neth
• Barbara van Gerven (68), Noordwijk
• Arie Kuiper (81), Hoogwoud, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1984 » Jin Akanishi, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1984 » Miguel Santos Soares, Timorese footballer
• 1985 » Dimitrios Mavroeidis, Greek basketball player
• 1985 » Kane Tenace, Australian footballer
• 1985 » Wason Rentería, Colombian footballer
• 1986 » Ömer Aşık, Turkish basketball player
• 1986 » Nguyen Ngoc Duy, Vietnamese footballer
• 1986 » Rafael Arévalo, Salvadoran tennis player
• 1986 » Terrance Knighton, American football player
• 1986 » Willem Janssen, Dutch footballer

• 1979 » Lee Wai Tong, Chinese footballer and manager (b. 1905)
• 1980 » Maurice Grevisse, Belgian linguist and author (b. 1895)
• 1984 » Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (b. 1949)
• 1986 » Flor Peeters, Belgian organist and composer (b. 1903)
• 1986 » Oscar Zariski, Belarusian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1899)
• 1986 » Paul-Gilbert Langevin, French musicologist, critique musical and physicist (b. 1933)
• 1988 » Adrian Adonis, American wrestler (b. 1954)
• 1990 » Olive Ann Burns, American journalist and author (b. 1924)
• 1991 » Art Sansom, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
• 1991 » Victor Chang, Chinese-Australian surgeon and physician (b. 1936)

• 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.
• June 30 » Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
• 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.
• October 4 » The Free Software Foundation is founded.
• November 19 » Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
• November 20 » Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.

The temperature on July 4, 1985 was between 13.5 °C and 27.2 °C and averaged 21.6 °C. There was 14.2 hours of sunshine (85%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.