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• Adrienne Josine Huijzer, Haarlem
• Alisha Honigh, Dieren, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arjan Cornelis Geertman († 2023)
• Kent Steven Erickson, Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota, VS († 2002)
• Marisa Star, Rijnsburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1986)
• Robert Bleiksloot, Rotterdam († 2017)

• Aafke Datema (80), Niekerk, Nederland
• Adolph G Hake (85), Marys Home, Miller, Missouri, United States
• Apolonia Maria Vieveen (95), Leidschendam (Veur)
• Bauke Jans Dooper (81), Sneek, Gem. Sneek, Friesland, Nederland
• Agatha Vink (73), Nieuw-Lekkerland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adolf G. Hake (86), Mary's Home
• Aaltje Iedema (78), Opeinde,, Fryslân | Friesland, Nederland
• Acacia Subia Zubiate (85), El Paso, El Paso County, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Barnwell Rhett Sweat (66)
• Alphonsus Ludovicus Cornelissen (85), Hasselt, België

• 1985 » Fabiana Claudino, Brazilian volleyball player
• 1985 » Trey Gilder, American basketball player
• 1986 » Cristiano Araújo, Brazilian singer-songwriter († 2015)
• 1986 » Michael Kightly, English footballer
• 1986 » Mischa Barton, English-American actress
• 1986 » Mohammad Bagheri Motamed, Iranian taekwondo practitioner
• 1986 » Ricky Ullman, Israeli-American actor
• 1986 » Vladislav Ivanov, Russian footballer
• 1987 » Luis Suárez, Uruguayan footballer
• 1987 » Wayne Hennessey, Welsh footballer

• 1982 » Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian general and politician, 56th President of Bolivia (b. 1918)
• 1983 » George Cukor, American director and producer (b. 1899)
• 1986 » Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer (b. 1921)
• 1986 » L. Ron Hubbard, American religious leader and author, founded the Church of Scientology (b. 1911)
• 1988 » Werner Fenchel, German-Danish mathematician and academic (b. 1905)
• 1989 » Ted Bundy, American serial killer (b. 1946)
• 1990 » Madge Bellamy, American actress (b. 1899)
• 1991 » Jack Schaefer, American journalist and author (b. 1907)
• 1992 » Ken Darby, American composer and conductor (b. 1909)
• 1993 » Gustav Ernesaks, Estonian composer and conductor (b. 1908)

• 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.
• February 8 » Hinton train collision: Twenty-three people are killed when a VIA Rail passenger train collides with a 118-car Canadian National freight train near the town of Hinton, Alberta, west of Edmonton. It is the worst rail accident in Canada until the Lac-Mégantic, Quebec derailment in 2013 which killed forty-seven people.
• February 16 » The Soviet liner MSMikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
• April 15 » The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon, its bombing raids against Libyan targets in response to a discotheque bombing in West Germany that killed two U.S. servicemen.
• April 28 » The United States Navy aircraft carrier USSEnterprise becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to transit the Suez Canal, navigating from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea to relieve the USSCoral Sea.
• October 21 » In Lebanon, pro-Iran kidnappers claim to have abducted American writer Edward Tracy (he is released in August 1991).
• October 29 » British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.

The temperature on January 24, 1986 was between 1.4 °C and 5.0 °C and averaged 3.2 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain during 2.5 hours. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (28%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.