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• Lena De Vleeschouwer, Gent († 2008)

• Arnoldus Leo Cornelis van der Ploeg (40), Wassenaar, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arnoldus Adrianus STAM (75)
• Derk Klein Ligtenberg (72), Almelo
• Cornelis Noort (62), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Nobel (95), Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Christina Gerarda Hendrika de Jager (88), Nieuw Loosdrecht
• Cornelia Brusselaars (77), Zevenbergen
• Cornelis van Gijtenbeek (73)
• Arie Out (73), Hillegom
• Dirkje van Leerdam (89)

• 1984 » Ángel Reyna, Mexican footballer
• 1984 » Danny Valencia, American baseball player
• 1984 » Eva Marie, American wrestler
• 1984 » Kevin Zegers, Canadian actor
• 1985 » Alun Wyn Jones, Welsh rugby player
• 1985 » Gio González, American baseball player
• 1985 » Renee Young, Canadian journalist
• 1985 » Song Joong-ki, South Korean actor
• 1986 » Leon Best, English footballer
• 1986 » Sally Pearson, Australian athlete

• 1972 » Robert Casadesus, French pianist and composer (b. 1899)
• 1973 » Gram Parsons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1946)
• 1975 » Pamela Brown, English actress (b. 1917)
• 1978 » Étienne Gilson, French historian and philosopher (b. 1884)
• 1985 » Italo Calvino, Italian novelist, short story writer, and journalist (b. 1923)
• 1987 » Einar Gerhardsen, Norwegian civil servant and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1897)
• 1989 » Willie Steele, American long jumper (b. 1923)
• 1990 » Hermes Pan, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1910)
• 1992 » Jacques Pic, French chef (b. 1932)
• 1995 » Orville Redenbacher, American businessman, founded his own eponymous brand (b. 1907)

• 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 21 » Galaxy Airlines Flight 203 crashes near Reno–Tahoe International Airport in Reno, Nevada, killing 70 people.
• March 11 » Mikhail Gorbachev is elected to the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union making Gorbachev the USSR's de facto, and last, head of state.
• March 20 » Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
• May 25 » Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
• July 7 » Boris Becker becomes the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17.
• October 7 » Four men from the Palestine Liberation Front hijack the MSAchille Lauro off the coast of Egypt.

The temperature on September 19, 1985 was between 12.2 °C and 24.1 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.