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• Niels Manders († 1986)
• Ty Alan Melton [|||], Childress County, Texas († 2002)

• Anna Geertruida Hoppe (87), Emmen, Nederland
• Adriana van Willigen (88), Diemen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bessie Wallis Warfield-Simpson (89), unbekannt
• Adrianus van Dijk (75), Delft
• Bernard Gail Thompson (55), Detroit, Wayne Co. Michigan
• Berthe Henriette Marguerite NAULLET (76), Saint-Jean-de-Monts, 85160, France
• Adrianus Cornelis Bennebroek (75)
• Berend Jan Kollen (86), Lutten
• Anton Martinus BOTTEMA (75), Velp Gelderland Netherlands
• Aaltje Neeltje Ivangh (63), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1983 » Melaine Walker, Jamaican hurdler
• 1983 » Park Sung-hyun, South Korean archer
• 1984 » Paolo Guerrero, Peruvian footballer
• 1985 » Steven Davis, Northern Irish footballer
• 1985 » Tiago Splitter, Brazilian basketball player
• 1986 » Pablo Cuevas, Uruguayan tennis player
• 1986 » Ramses Barden, American football player
• 1987 » Meryl Davis, American ice dancer
• 1987 » Patric Hörnqvist, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1988 » Marcel Gecov, Czech footballer

• 1978 » Carle Hessay, German-Canadian painter (b. 1911)
• 1980 » Pietro Nenni, Italian journalist and politician, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1891)
• 1981 » Hephzibah Menuhin, American-Australian pianist (b. 1920)
• 1982 » Victor Buono, American actor (b. 1938)
• 1984 » Alexis Korner, French-English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1928)
• 1992 » Grace Hopper, American computer scientist and admiral, co-developed COBOL (b. 1906)
• 1994 » Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt, New Zealand physician and politician, 11th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1900)
• 1994 » Cesar Romero, American actor (b. 1907)
• 1994 » Edward Arthur Thompson, Irish historian and academic (b. 1914)
• 1995 » Eugene Wigner, Hungarian-American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)

1. Mark
2. Michael
3. Jan
4. Kevin
5. Robert
6. Thomas
7. Jeroen
8. Peter
9. David
10. Sander
11. Bart
12. Willem
13. Johannes
14. Maarten
15. Hendrik
16. Patrick

1. Maria
2. Laura
3. Linda
4. Kim
5. Sanne
6. Jessica
7. Johanna
8. Jennifer
9. Marjolein
10. Charlotte
11. Stephanie
12. Amanda
13. Anna
14. Esther
15. Joyce
16. Sarah

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
• April 5 » Three people are killed in the bombing of the La Belle discotheque in West Berlin, Germany.
• May 19 » The Firearm Owners Protection Act is signed into law by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
• August 20 » In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide.
• October 21 » In Lebanon, pro-Iran kidnappers claim to have abducted American writer Edward Tracy (he is released in August 1991).
• November 21 » National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents allegedly implicating them in the Iran–Contra affair.
• November 29 » The Surinamese military attacks the village of Moiwana during the Suriname Guerrilla War, killing at least 39 civilians, mostly women and children.

The temperature on January 1, 1986 was between -5.5 °C and -0.9 °C and averaged -2.8 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.