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• Charles Thomas Solms (76), Des Plaines (Cook, Illinois, USA)
• Anna Jozina Van Reems (83), Goes
• Allegonda Wilhelmina van Schaik (89), Amsterdam
• Clyde Rowan Hammond (67), Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
• Apollonia Christina KLOOSTERMAN (70), Teteringen, Gemeente Breda, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Albertus Hartink (92), Nijmegen
• Auguste Marcel Henri Marie PINEAU (83), Angers, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France
• Anna Elizabeth Tebben (84), Pine County, Minnesota
• Cornelis Smit (93), Oldebroek
• Bindert Pietersma (87), Leeuwarden (Friesland)

• 1982 » Boban Grnčarov, Macedonian footballer
• 1983 » Kléber Giacomance de Souza Freitas, Brazilian footballer
• 1983 » Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, Dutch footballer
• 1983 » Manoa Vosawai, Italian rugby player
• 1984 » Bryan Pata, American football player († 2006)
• 1985 » Danny Graham, English footballer
• 1985 » Franck Moutsinga, German rugby player
• 1986 » Andrei Agius, Maltese footballer
• 1986 » Kyle Arrington, American football player
• 1987 » Vanessa Watts, West Indian cricketer

• 1982 » Henry Fonda, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1982 » Salvador Sánchez, Mexican boxer (b. 1959)
• 1983 » Theodor Burchardi, German admiral (b. 1892)
• 1984 » Ladi Kwali, Nigerian potter (b. 1925)
• 1985 » Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
• 1985 » Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (b. 1951)
• 1986 » Evaline Ness, American author and illustrator (b. 1911)
• 1988 » Jean-Michel Basquiat, American painter (b. 1960)
• 1989 » William Shockley, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 1990 » Dorothy Mackaill, English-American actress (b. 1903)

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. Jennifer

• 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 3 » A magnitude 8.3 earthquake strikes the Valparaíso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a million people homeless.
• 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.
• July 10 » The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
• July 13 » The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia, as well as other venues such as Moscow and Sydney.
• July 19 » The Val di Stava dam collapses killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
• October 7 » Four men from the Palestine Liberation Front hijack the MSAchille Lauro off the coast of Egypt.

The temperature on August 12, 1985 was between 11.0 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.4 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.