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• Jennifer Lynne Rebagliati, East Stroudsburg, PA
• Joey Johannes Cornelis Zandbergen, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Aloijsia Francisca Frederica Leenders (91), Nijmegen
• Adriana Maria Damen (62), Tilburg
• Anna Maria Hubertina Stultjens (78), Roermond,, Limburg, Nederland
• Alberdina Visser (76), Velsen
• Andrew J. Gouwens (81), Verenigde Statn
• Annetje Pauw (55), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Marinus Uittenbroek (82)
• Antonius Johannes Leijten (72), Etten-Leur (Noord-Brabant, NLD)
• Arie de Wit (67), Middelharnis
• Bernice Vissers (86), Zeeland Township (Ottawa County) (Michigan)

• 1985 » Aleksandr Bukharov, Russian footballer
• 1985 » Andriy Tovt, Ukrainian footballer
• 1985 » Ed Clancy, English track and road cyclist
• 1985 » Marco Bonanomi, Italian racing driver
• 1986 » Ben Offereins, Australian runner
• 1986 » Danny Jones, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1986 » František Rajtoral, Czech footballer († 2017)
• 1986 » Martynas Andriuškevičius, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1986 » Oleh Dopilka, Ukrainian footballer
• 1987 » Manuele Boaro, Italian cyclist

• 1973 » Frankie Frisch, American baseball player and manager (b. 1898)
• 1974 » George D. Sax, American banker and businessman (b. 1904)
• 1985 » Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American violinist and conductor (b. 1899)
• 1989 » Maurice Evans, English-American actor (b. 1901)
• 1991 » Ragnar Granit, Finnish-Swedish neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1991 » William Heinesen, Faroese author, poet, and author (b. 1900)
• 1992 » Lucy M. Lewis, American potter (b. 1890)
• 1998 » Beatrice Wood, American painter and potter (b. 1893)
• 1999 » Bidu Sayão, Brazilian-American soprano (b. 1902)
• 1999 » Yehudi Menuhin, American-Swiss violinist and conductor (b. 1916)

• 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 7 » Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.
• February 8 » Hinton train collision: Twenty-three people are killed when a VIA Rail passenger train collides with a 118-car Canadian National freight train near the town of Hinton, Alberta, west of Edmonton. It is the worst rail accident in Canada until the Lac-Mégantic, Quebec derailment in 2013 which killed forty-seven people.
• April 29 » Chernobyl disaster: American and European spy satellites capture the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant.
• May 7 » Canadian Patrick Morrow becomes the first person to climb each of the Seven Summits.
• September 23 » Houston Astros' Jim Deshaies sets a record, striking out the first eight batters he faces against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
• 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 March 12, 1986 was between 1.6 °C and 3.1 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.