About the day » Friday January 3, 1986Calender converter

• Augustus Jozef Willem Schussler (83), Utrecht
• Anna Catharina Verweij (90), Woerden
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Carati (97), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Dirkje (Fokkes) de Vries (83)
• Aart Pater (59), Rhenen
• Dirkje de Vries (83), -
• Anna Catharina Rinck (88), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Koens (76), Alteveer, Onstwedde, Nederland
• Aaltje van Kleef (82), Hillegersberg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• "Yves" François Régis Marie Joseph Charles Tréton de Vaujuas-Langan (64), Launay-Villiers, Mayenne, France

• 1984 » Billy Mehmet, English-Irish footballer
• 1985 » Evan Moore, American football player
• 1985 » Linas Kleiza, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1986 » Dana Hussain, Iraqi sprinter
• 1986 » Dmitry Starodubtsev, Russian pole vaulter
• 1986 » Greg Nwokolo, Indonesian footballer
• 1987 » Kim Ok-bin, South Korean actress and singer
• 1987 » Reto Berra, Swiss professional ice hockey goaltender
• 1988 » Ikechi Anya, Scottish-Nigerian footballer
• 1988 » Matt Frattin, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1975 » James McCormack, American general (b. 1910)
• 1975 » Victor Kraft, Austrian philosopher from the Vienna Circle (b. 1880)
• 1977 » William Gropper, American lithographer, cartoonist, and painter (b. 1897)
• 1979 » Conrad Hilton, American businessman, founded the Hilton Hotels & Resorts (b. 1887)
• 1980 » George Sutherland Fraser, Scottish poet and academic (b. 1915)
• 1980 » Joy Adamson, Austrian-Kenyan author (b. 1910)
• 1981 » Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (b. 1883)
• 1988 » Rose Ausländer, Ukrainian-German poet and author (b. 1901)
• 1989 » Sergei Sobolev, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1909)
• 1992 » Judith Anderson, British actress (b. 1897)

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. Anna
12. Amanda
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 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.
• March 4 » The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Halley's Comet and the first images of its nucleus.
• April 2 » Alabama governor George Wallace, a former segregationist, best known for the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door", announces that he will not seek a fifth four-year term and will retire from public life upon the end of his term in January 1987.
• June 4 » Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.
• October 10 » A 5.7 M_w  San Salvador earthquake shakes El Salvador, killing 1,500.
• November 5 » USSRentz, USSReeves and USSOldendorf visit Qingdao (Tsing Tao) China – the first US Naval visit to China since 1949.

The temperature on January 3, 1986 was between -2.0 °C and 4.7 °C and averaged 0.9 °C. There was 4.4 mm of rain during 11.2 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.