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• Valeska Kleijzen, Boxtel († 1992)

• Almer Bailey (87), Manatee, Manatee Co., Florida
• Clarence De Groot (68), Des Moines
• Caroline,Marie,Adrienne de Merode (Prins) (11), Trente, Italie
• Beertje van den Berg (91), Nunspeet
• Antonie Maria Brouwer (24), Weesp, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anne-Marie Janssis (82), Sint-Truiden, België
• Arie Cornelis Bos (88)
• Clarence De Groot (68), Des Moines, Polk County (Iowa), Verenigde Staten
• Aleida Nijrolder (62), Zeddam
• Anna Huberdina Daal van (92), Boxmeer

• 1985 » Kristo Saage, Estonian basketball player
• 1985 » Masoud Azizi, Afghan sprinter
• 1985 » Renn Kiriyama, Japanese actor
• 1985 » Silvestre Varela, Portuguese footballer
• 1986 » Gemma Arterton, English actress and singer
• 1986 » Miwa Asao, Japanese volleyball player
• 1987 » Anthony Fainga'a, Australian rugby player
• 1987 » Athena Imperial, Filipino journalist, Miss Earth-Water 2011
• 1987 » Faydee, Australian singer
• 1987 » Saia Fainga'a, Australian rugby player

• 1982 » Paul Desruisseaux, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1905)
• 1983 » Sam Chatmon, American singer and guitarist (b. 1897)
• 1986 » Gino Hernandez, American wrestler (b. 1957)
• 1986 » Anita Cobby, Australian murder victim (b. 1959)
• 1987 » Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 1987 » Carlos José Castilho, Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1927)
• 1988 » Marcel Bozzuffi, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 1989 » Arnold Nordmeyer, New Zealand minister and politician, 30th New Zealand Minister of Finance (b. 1901)
• 1989 » Ondrej Nepela, Slovak figure skater and coach (b. 1951)
• 1990 » Paul Ariste, Estonian linguist and academic (b. 1905)

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 25 » The National Resistance Movement topples the government of Tito Okello in Uganda.
• 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.
• October 29 » British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.
• November 3 » The Compact of Free Association becomes law, granting the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands independence from the United States.
• December 19 » Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, releases Andrei Sakharov and his wife from exile in Gorky.

The average temperature on February 2, 1986 was 1.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.