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• Pierre Eduard De Beir, Kortrijk, 8500, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium († 1986)
• Dennie van der Meer, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Sara Jane Jochems, St. Paul,us, Verenigde Staten
• Anouk Smeets († 1986)
• Pierre-Edouard DE BEIR, Kortrijk, 34022, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique († 1986)

• de Groot (85), Egmond aan Zee, Gemeente Bergen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anthonius Cornelis Lek (63), Ter Aar (Papenveer)
• Alfred Philip Godefried Vlassenroot (65), Ukkel
• Antje Willems De Grouw (90), Zwolle, Gem. Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Antonius Cornelis Lek (63), Ter Aar
• Catharina Johanna van den Diepstraten (79), Wagenberg
• Anna Boomgaarden (94), Worthington, Nobles County, Minnesota
• Co Rengers (55), Nijmegen
• Antonius Cornelus van Hamont (87), Tilburg
• Aaltje Ootjers (82), Dirkshorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1984 » Ben Shapiro, American author and commentator
• 1985 » Enrico Patrizio, Italian rugby player
• 1985 » Kenneth Emil Petersen, Danish footballer
• 1985 » René Adler, German footballer
• 1986 » Fred Davis, American football player
• 1987 » David Knight, English footballer
• 1987 » Greg Inglis, Australian rugby league player
• 1987 » Kelleigh Ryan, Canadian fencer
• 1987 » Michael Seater, Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1987 » Tsegaye Kebede, Ethiopian runner

• 1981 » Graham Whitehead, English race car driver (b. 1922)
• 1982 » Red Smith, American journalist (b. 1905)
• 1983 » Armin Öpik, Estonian-Australian paleontologist and geologist (b. 1898)
• 1983 » Shepperd Strudwick, American actor (b. 1907)
• 1984 » Fazıl Küçük, Cypriot journalist and politician (b. 1906)
• 1987 » Ray Bolger, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1904)
• 1988 » Seán MacBride, Irish republican activist and politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 1990 » Gordon Jackson, Scottish-English actor (b. 1923)
• 1990 » Peggy van Praagh, English ballerina, choreographer, and director (b. 1910)
• 1993 » Sammy Cahn, American songwriter (b. 1913)

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. Marjolein
9. Jennifer
10. Charlotte
11. Amanda
12. Anna
13. Stephanie
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.
• January 12 » Space Shuttle program: Congressman Bill Nelson lifts off from Kennedy Space Center aboard Columbia on mission STS-61-C as a payload specialist.
• January 20 » In the United States, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time.
• January 23 » The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.
• April 11 » FBI Miami Shootout: A gun battle in broad daylight in Dade County, Florida between two bank/armored car robbers and pursuing FBI agents. During the firefight, FBI agents Jerry L. Dove and Benjamin P. Grogan were killed, while five other agents were wounded. As a result, the popular .40 S&W cartridge was developed.
• May 3 » Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes on Air Lanka Flight 512 at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.
• November 6 » Sumburgh disaster: A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes 2⁄₂ miles east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45 people. It is the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record.

The average temperature on January 15, 1986 was 4.4 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 4.1 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (12%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.