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• Kelvin Venter, Hartbeespoort (Zuid Afrika)
• Johannes Adriaan Hoogwerf, Capelle aan de IJssel († 2008)
• Kevin Vanhaelewijn, roeselare

• Catharina Elisabeth Hansen (73), Roermond
• Arie Stephanus Duijs (87)
• Danny Edward Burge (49), Arlington, Tarrant County, Texas
• Adri Kennis (26), Bergeijk,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Dirk Bakker (63), Zaandam
• Adriana Rijnberg (95), Tholen
• (72), Emmen
• Bryan Edwin Frayling (93), Age: 93/Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England
• Anna Theodora Könning (tak Peeters) (66), Nijmegen
• Albert Linthout (62)

• 1984 » Dudu Aharon, Israeli singer-songwriter
• 1984 » Josh Satin, American baseball player
• 1984 » Sebastian Werle, German rugby player
• 1985 » Harry Judd, English drummer and songwriter
• 1986 » Balázs Dzsudzsák, Hungarian footballer
• 1986 » Beau Champion, Australian rugby league player
• 1986 » T. J. Oshie, American ice hockey player
• 1986 » Thomas Bourgin, French motorcycle racer († 2013)
• 1987 » Owen Franks, New Zealand rugby player
• 1987 » Tommaso Bellazzini, Italian footballer

• 1973 » Charles Atlas, Italian-American bodybuilder and model (b. 1892)
• 1973 » Irna Phillips, American screenwriter, created Guiding Light and As the World Turns (b. 1901)
• 1979 » Peggy Guggenheim, American-Italian art collector (b. 1898)
• 1982 » Jack Webb, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1920)
• 1983 » Colin Middleton, Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1910)
• 1984 » Joan Lindsay, Australian author and playwright (b. 1896)
• 1992 » Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (b. 1934)
• 1994 » Sebastian Shaw, English actor, director, and playwright (b. 1905)
• 1995 » Patric Knowles, English actor (b. 1911)
• 1998 » Joe Orlando, Italian-American author and illustrator (b. 1927)

• 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 19 » The first IBM PC computer virus is released into the wild. A boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter unauthorized copying of the software they had written.
• January 25 » The National Resistance Movement topples the government of Tito Okello in Uganda.
• April 29 » Chernobyl disaster: American and European spy satellites capture the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant.
• September 5 » Pan Am Flight 73 from Mumbai, India with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
• October 11 » Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Iceland to continue discussions about scaling back IRBM arsenals in Europe.
• December 19 » Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, releases Andrei Sakharov and his wife from exile in Gorky.

The temperature on December 23, 1986 was between -2.2 °C and 3.2 °C and averaged -0.1 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 2.5 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.