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• Courtney Ann Flanders, El Cajon, San Diego County,California († 1986)
• Mary Nell Harbour
• Roy Steven Alan Hughey Mays († 2010)

• Abraham Brugts (62), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje van Leeuwen (89), Amsterdam
• Boyd Columbus Rice (86), Cumberland, Allegany, Maryland, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus Bekers (83), Breda
• Aaltje van LEEUWEN (89), Amsterdam
• Clarence L Reinhart (76), Paulding, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Annie Hubens (61), Beek,, Limburg, Nederland
• Antonius Adrianus Backx (77), Teteringen
• Bartus Kolbach (67), Delwijnen
• Adriana Bekers (83), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1983 » Jennifer Blake, Canadian wrestler
• 1983 » John Afoa, New Zealand rugby player
• 1983 » Katerine Avgoustakis, Belgian singer and pianist
• 1983 » Kirsty Coventry, Zimbabwean swimmer
• 1984 » Katie Melua, Georgian-English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1984 » Sabrina Bryan, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
• 1984 » Serginho Catarinense, Brazilian footballer
• 1985 » Max Minghella, English actor
• 1986 » Gordon Beckham, American baseball player
• 1986 » Kyla Pratt, American actress and singer

• 1977 » Marc Bolan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)
• 1977 » Maria Callas, Greek operatic soprano (b. 1923)
• 1980 » Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist and philosopher (b. 1896)
• 1984 » Louis Réard, French engineer and fashion designer, created the bikini (b. 1897)
• 1984 » Richard Brautigan, American novelist, poet, and short story writer (b. 1935)
• 1987 » Christopher Soames, English soldier and politician, Governor of Southern Rhodesia (b. 1920)
• 1991 » Olga Spessivtseva, Russian-American ballerina (b. 1895)
• 1992 » Millicent Fenwick, American journalist and politician (b. 1910)
• 1993 » František Jílek, Czech conductor (b. 1913)
• 1993 » Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australian poet and activist (b. 1920)

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.
• February 5 » Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.
• May 29 » Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
• July 10 » An Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 stalls and crashes near Uchkuduk, Uzbekistan (then part of the Soviet Union), killing all 200 people on board in the USSR's worst-ever airline disaster.
• September 13 » Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which starts the Super Mario series of platforming games.
• December 12 » Arrow Air Flight 1285, a McDonnell Douglas DC-8, crashes after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland, killing all 256 people on board, including 236 members of the United States Army's 101st Airborne Division.
• 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 September 16, 1985 was between 9.6 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain during 4.1 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.