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• Anno Koetje (81)
• Arthur L MIDGLEY (78), Cottonwood, Minnesota, United States Of America
• Anna Maria Hubertina Geelen (89), Susteren
• Anna Barbara Marie Jacobs (79), Groesbeek, Netherlands
• Arie Wout, van t (74), Purmerend
• Adriana Cornelia Jacoba Woutrina van Alphen (80), Rijswijk
• Arnoud (Naud) Hendriks (70)
• Amélia da Rosa Luz (74), Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brasil
• Arnold Anton Armand Aoys (78), Den Haag
• Aebele Gietema (68)

• 1984 » Per Mertesacker, German footballer
• 1985 » Calvin Johnson, American football player
• 1985 » Dani Pedrosa, Spanish motorcycle racer
• 1985 » Magnus Gangstad Jørgensen, Norwegian music producer
• 1985 » Niklas Moisander, Finnish footballer
• 1986 » Benoît Pouliot, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 » Isaac Makwala, Botswanan sprinter
• 1986 » Lisa Foiles, American actress and journalist
• 1986 » Mark Fraser, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 » Matt Lashoff, American ice hockey player

• 1973 » W. H. Auden, English-American poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1907)
• 1975 » Casey Stengel, American baseball player and manager (b. 1890)
• 1981 » Bill Shankly, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1913)
• 1982 » Monty Stratton, American baseball player and coach (b. 1912)
• 1986 » Prince George Valdemar of Denmark (b. 1920)
• 1987 » Henry Ford II, American businessman (b. 1917)
• 1988 » Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912)
• 1989 » Georges Ulmer, Danish-French singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1919)
• 1989 » Gussie Busch, American businessman (b. 1899)
• 1993 » Gordon Douglas, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1907)

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. Esther
12. Amanda
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.
• January 13 » A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.
• May 5 » Ronald Reagan visits the military cemetery at Bitburg and the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he makes a speech.
• May 20 » Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.
• 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.
• July 17 » Founding of the EUREKA Network by former head of states François Mitterrand (France) and Helmut Kohl (Germany).
• September 13 » Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which starts the Super Mario series of platforming games.

The temperature on September 29, 1985 was between 6.9 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (86%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.