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• Geert Claassen, Helmond († 1987)
• Tamara Ruth Wieringa
• Mark Antonio Roye († 2024)
• Geert Claessen, Helmond († 1987)

• Bernardina Reyes (91)
• Alexander Baars (84), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Christina Gerarda - Christel de Jonge, Hoensbroek, LI, Netherlands
• Cornelis Dirk Timmerman (94), Heemstede, Nederland
• Anna Catharina de Brouwer (97), Tilburg
• Dirk Koppert (89), 's-Gravenzande, Nederland
• Catharina Antonia Maria Weesie (30), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Bastiana (Sjaan) van der Hoek (83), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Denny Schoenmakers (0), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Bert Lionel Page [K Bu] (81), Russellville, Pope County, Arkansas

• 1984 » Marion Bartoli, French tennis player
• 1985 » Çağlar Birinci, Turkish footballer
• 1985 » Brandon Jackson, American football player
• 1985 » Buster Davis, American football player
• 1986 » Camilla Belle, American actress
• 1987 » Bojana Bobusic, Australian tennis player
• 1987 » Joe Ingles, Australian basketball player
• 1987 » Joel Reinders, American football player
• 1987 » Phil Kessel, American ice hockey player
• 1987 » Ricky Stenhouse Jr., American race car driver

• 1981 » Harry Golden, American journalist and author (b. 1902)
• 1981 » Hazel Scott, Trinidadian-American activist, actress, and musician (b. 1920)
• 1985 » Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)
• 1987 » Madeleine Carroll, English actress (b. 1906)
• 1987 » Peter Medawar, Brazilian-English biologist and zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
• 1988 » Alec Issigonis, Greek-English car designer, designed the Mini (b. 1906)
• 1988 » Hamengkubuwono IX, Indonesian politician, 2nd Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1912)
• 1991 » Demetrios I of Constantinople (b. 1914)
• 1991 » Hazen Argue, Canadian politician (b. 1921)
• 1994 » Harriet Nelson, American actress and singer (b. 1909)

• 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 28 » High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster are detected at a nuclear power plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident.
• April 29 » Chernobyl disaster: American and European spy satellites capture the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant.
• May 19 » The Firearm Owners Protection Act is signed into law by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
• July 2 » Rodrigo Rojas and Carmen Gloria Quintana are burnt alive during a street demonstration against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile.
• 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 25 » Iran–Contra affair: U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.

The temperature on October 2, 1986 was between 6.5 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.