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• Gerrald Westerbroek, Elspeet (Nunspeet) († 1987)
• Joël de Vries

• Albertius Martinus Matheus D'Hertefelt (70), Sint Antonius Zoersel St. Jozef
• Anthonius Hendrikus (Hendrik, Henk) (9k) Siepe (72), Medemblik, Netherlands
• Eelke van Hijum (72), Kollumerzwaag
• Edna Letitia Kennedy (103), Haddonfield, NJ
• Chris Yakel (67), Latimer, Franklin County, Iowa
• Cornelis Johannes Gerardus Petersen (80)
• Anna Maria Francisca 'Cis' van Eijseren (83), Hoensbroek, Nederland
• Charles Marie Gérard "Antoine" Macé de Gastines (88), Lorient, Morbihan, France
• Elisabeth Geertruida Rijnten (77), Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland
• Dick Broesder (74)

• 1983 » Ľubomír Michalík, Slovak footballer
• 1983 » Aleš Hemský, Czech ice hockey player
• 1983 » Christian Müller, German footballer
• 1983 » Dallas Braden, American baseball player
• 1984 » Alona Bondarenko, Ukrainian tennis player
• 1984 » Boone Logan, American baseball player
• 1984 » James Morrison, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1984 » Niko Kranjčar, Croatian footballer
• 1985 » Gerrit van Look, German rugby player and coach
• 1987 » Jose Lorenzo Diokno, Filipino director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1975 » Murilo Mendes, Brazilian poet and telegrapher (b. 1901)
• 1978 » Lonnie Mayne, American wrestler (b. 1944)
• 1979 » Andrew Dasburg, American painter and sculptor (b. 1887)
• 1984 » Tigran Petrosian, Georgian-Armenian chess player (b. 1929)
• 1986 » Helen Mack, American actress (b. 1913)
• 1989 » Larkin I. Smith, American police officer and politician (b. 1944)
• 1989 » Tim Richmond, American race car driver (b. 1955)
• 1991 » James Roosevelt, American general and politician (b. 1907)
• 1995 » Alison Hargreaves, English mountaineer (b. 1963)
• 1995 » Jan Křesadlo, Czech-English psychologist and author (b. 1926)

• 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.
• February 16 » Hezbollah is founded.
• April 21 » The compound of the militant group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord surrenders to federal authorities in Arkansas after a two-day government siege.
• May 20 » Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.
• August 12 » Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes into Osutaka ridge in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520, to become the worst single-plane air disaster.
• December 16 » Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti, who assumes leadership of New York's Gambino crime family.

The temperature on August 13, 1985 was between 11.1 °C and 23.6 °C and averaged 18.1 °C. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.