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• Johan van der Zwet

• Bertha Barbara Jolivet (93), Hulst
• Dirkje (Dit) Meijer (79), IJmuiden
• Alle Jans Kuperus (79), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Catharina Middendorp (77), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Geertruida de Jong (79), Amsterdam Noord-Holland
• Arie van Houwelingen (81)
• Constantia VAN DE VELDE (61), Pulle, Zandhoven, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium
• * Jacoba van Helvoort (68), Vlijmen
• Charles Nicolaas Rosenquist (85), Dordrecht
• A C van Rossem (88), Leidschendam

• 1983 » Alex Bailey, British footballer
• 1983 » Dwayne Barker, English rugby league player
• 1983 » Ndiss Kaba Badji, Senegalese athlete
• 1983 » Sarah Rees Brennan, Irish writer
• 1983 » Stipe Buljan, Croatian footballer
• 1984 » Ben Wildman-Tobriner, American swimmer
• 1984 » Wale, American rapper
• 1985 » Justin Durant, American football player
• 1986 » Faris Badwan, English singer-songwriter
• 1986 » Lindsey Stirling, American violinist and composer

• 1982 » Ivan Bagramyan, Russian general (b. 1897)
• 1983 » Andrew Brewin, Canadian politician (b. 1907)
• 1983 » Bada Rajan, Indian mobster (b. unknown)
• 1983 » Birgit Tengroth, Swedish actor (b. 1915)
• 1983 » Bob Donham, American basketball player (b. 1926)
• 1983 » Willy Trenk-Trebitsch, Austrian actor (b. 1902)
• 1983 » Xavier Zubiri, Basque philosopher (b. 1898)
• 1985 » Gu Long, Chinese author and screenwriter (b. 1937)
• 1987 » Jaco Pastorius, American bass player, composer, and producer (b. 1951)
• 1988 » Glenn Robert Davis, American lieutenant and politician (b. 1914)

• 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 7 » Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
• March 3 » Arthur Scargill declares that the National Union of Mineworkers' national executive voted to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Great Britain without any peace deal over pit closures.
• March 4 » The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for HIV infection, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.
• April 23 » Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months.
• June 30 » Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
• July 13 » The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia, as well as other venues such as Moscow and Sydney.

The temperature on September 21, 1985 was between 9.8 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 16.6 °C. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (6%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.