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• Sil Kloppenburg, Langbroek
• Piette Boissevain, Twello
• Ilse Huijbers († 1986)

• Clement Henricus Delsaer (77), Sint-Truiden, België
• Aartje Lokhorst (61), Doornspijk
• Alexander Wartena (90), Haren
• Behard Elisa Jacob Ritzema van Ikema (73)
• Bernhard Elisa Jacob Ritzema van Ikema (73)
• Clasina van Batenburg (80), Buurmalsen
• Andreas Joannes van Gestel (82), Turnhout (B)
• Barbertje Jantje (Bertha) Lenstra (78), Wijchen, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Anna Govarts (85), Westerlo,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonio Francener (47), Anitápolis, SC,Brasil

• 1984 » Domenik Hixon, American football player
• 1985 » Bruno Mars, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1985 » Eiji Wentz, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1985 » Elliphant, Swedish singer-songwriter and rapper
• 1986 » Louis Dodds, English footballer
• 1986 » Michele Sepe, Italian rugby player
• 1987 » Aya Hirano, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1987 » Frankie Brown, Scottish footballer
• 1987 » Hassan Maatouk, Lebanese footballer
• 1987 » Taylor Price, American football player

• 1978 » Bertha Parker Pallan, American archaeologist (b. 1907)
• 1979 » Brian Edmund Baker, English air marshal (b. 1896)
• 1979 » Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian politician (b. 1902)
• 1982 » Fernando Lamas, Argentinian-American actor and director (b. 1916)
• 1982 » Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, English runner and politician, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
• 1983 » Joan Hackett, American actress (b. 1934)
• 1985 » Gordon Welchman, English-American mathematician and scholar (b. 1906)
• 1985 » Malcolm Ross, American captain, physicist, and balloonist (b. 1919)
• 1987 » Konstantinos Tsatsos, Greek scholar and politician, 2nd President of Greece (b. 1899)
• 1992 » Willy Brandt, German lawyer and politician, 4th Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)

• 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 28 » Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission: Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates after liftoff, killing all seven astronauts on board.
• February 7 » Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.
• March 24 » The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.
• October 21 » In Lebanon, pro-Iran kidnappers claim to have abducted American writer Edward Tracy (he is released in August 1991).
• 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.
• 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 October 8, 1986 was between 7.6 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.