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• Hans De Vrij, Turnhout, België († 2010)
• Chantal Gijsbers, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1986)
• Eveline Tichler, Delft
• Ewoud Hooijschuur, De Cocksdorp († 1986)
• Marlijn Feskens, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1989)
• Tim Calcoen († 1986)
• Nathalie Peters, Dodewaard (Gelderland) Nederland)
• Ewoud Hooijschuur, De Cocksdorp (Texel, NH) († 1986)

• Akke Jansen (67)
• Bernadette LANNOYE (54), Paris, Friesland, Nederland
• Annigje Witzier (81)
• Adriana van Hintum (93), Berghem, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arthur William Abraham (75), Northampton, Northamptonshire, England
• Bastiaan Kooijman (95), Rotterdam
• Albert Ludwig Sasse (84)
• Abele Bartelds Rozenberg (60), Jubbega,Friesland,Netherlands
• Bernard Goossen (70), Breda
• Adriana Weggers (77)

• 1983 » Braylon Edwards, American football player
• 1983 » Franklin Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1984 » Andrew Ellis, New Zealand rugby player
• 1984 » David Odonkor, German footballer
• 1984 » James Wisniewski, American ice hockey player
• 1984 » Marco Paoloni, Italian footballer
• 1985 » Georgios Samaras, Greek footballer
• 1985 » Jamaal Westerman, American football player
• 1986 » Charlotte Church, Welsh singer-songwriter and actress
• 1987 » Ellen Page, Canadian actress

• 1974 » Tim Horton, Canadian ice hockey player and businessman, co-founded Tim Hortons (b. 1930)
• 1980 » Alfred Andersch, German-Swiss author (b. 1914)
• 1982 » Gershom Scholem, German-Israeli historian and philosopher (b. 1897)
• 1984 » Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1985 » Louis Hayward, South African-American actor (b. 1909)
• 1986 » Helen Hooven Santmyer, American novelist (b. 1895)
• 1991 » Dorothy Auchterlonie Green, Australian poet, critic, and academic (b. 1915)
• 1993 » Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist and geophysicist (b. 1888)
• 1994 » Johannes Steinhoff, German general and pilot (b. 1913)
• 1996 » Morton Gould, American pianist, composer, and conductor (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.
• April 14 » The heaviest hailstones ever recorded (1 kilogram (2.2lb)) fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92.
• May 2 » Chernobyl disaster: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster.
• September 23 » Houston Astros' Jim Deshaies sets a record, striking out the first eight batters he faces against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
• November 3 » The Compact of Free Association becomes law, granting the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands independence from the United States.
• November 6 » Sumburgh disaster: A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes 2⁄₂ miles east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45 people. It is the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record.
• November 29 » The Surinamese military attacks the village of Moiwana during the Suriname Guerrilla War, killing at least 39 civilians, mostly women and children.

The temperature on February 21, 1986 was between -14.6 °C and -1.9 °C and averaged -8.4 °C. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (52%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.