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• Yentl Wilhelmina Charlene Maria Sterk, Naardxen

• Bauke Reinder Politiek (86), Witmarsum, Gem. Wonseradeel, Friesland, NL
• Antje Tyes van der Molen (88), Kollum, Kollumerland en Nieuwkruisland, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna-Maria BLONDIA (73), Gent
• Arnoldus van Diesen (75), Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes van Gool (68), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Anna Elzinga (75), Leeuwarden
• Adelle Montanye (98), Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
• Bernardus Franciscus van Harmelen (78), Goes
• Aaltje Oosting (70), Assen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Arthur Dumoleijn (71), Antwerpen (B)

• 1984 » Josh Johnson, Canadian-American baseball player
• 1984 » Vernon Davis, American football player
• 1985 » Adam Federici, Australian footballer
• 1985 » Mario Williams, American football player
• 1986 » George Elokobi, Cameroonian footballer
• 1986 » Megan Ellison, American film producer, founded Annapurna Pictures
• 1986 » Pauline Parmentier, French tennis player
• 1986 » Walter Dix, American sprinter
• 1986 » Yves Ma-Kalambay, Belgian footballer
• 1987 » Marcus Mumford, American-English singer-songwriter

• 1976 » Ernesto Miranda, American criminal (b. 1941)
• 1976 » Evert Taube, Swedish author and composer (b. 1890)
• 1985 » Reginald Baker, English-Australian film producer (b. 1896)
• 1985 » Tatsuzō Ishikawa, Japanese author (b. 1905)
• 1987 » Yves Allégret, French director and screenwriter (b. 1907)
• 1989 » William Stephenson, Canadian captain and spy (b. 1896)
• 1990 » Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus, German zoologist and academic (b. 1901)
• 1990 » Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-American biochemist and academic (b. 1935)
• 1995 » George Abbott, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1887)
• 1997 » John Joseph Scanlan, Irish-American bishop (b. 1930)

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 25 » The National Resistance Movement topples the government of Tito Okello in Uganda.
• October 19 » The president of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO, along with 33 others, die when their aircraft crashes into the Lebombo Mountains.
• October 21 » In Lebanon, pro-Iran kidnappers claim to have abducted American writer Edward Tracy (he is released in August 1991).
• October 27 » The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang.
• November 26 » The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of committing war crimes as a guard at the Nazi Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem.

The temperature on January 31, 1986 was between 0.9 °C and 2.5 °C and averaged 1.8 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.