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• Tamara Ruth Wieringa
• Geert Claassen, Helmond († 1987)
• Geert Claessen, Helmond († 1987)

• August Vehmeyer (84)
• Alexander Baars (84), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• "Gérard" Léon Henri Marie Joseph Ghislain Iweins d'Eeckhoutte (88), Zwalm, Belgique
• Bernardina Reyes (91)
• Alie Van Grieken (66), Apeldoorn
• Cornelis van 't Hoog (75), Rhenen
• Dirkje Damman (69)
• Elisabeth Petronella Teunissen (81), Bakel, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Antonius Johannes Biemans (56), Foster, Victoria (Australië)
• Aalt Fidder (73), Enschede

• 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)

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.
• February 20 » The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for ten of those years.
• March 4 » The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Halley's Comet and the first images of its nucleus.
• March 24 » The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.
• 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.
• July 2 » Rodrigo Rojas and Carmen Gloria Quintana are burnt alive during a street demonstration against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile.
• November 26 » Iran–Contra affair: U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces the members of what will become known as the Tower Commission.

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.