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• Calvin Michel Sidjaya, Makassar, Indonesia
• Willem van den Hazel, Ermelo, Gelderland, Nederland († 2002)

• Arie Gravesteijn (88), Reeuwijk
• Catharina Griffioen (73), Durgerdam
• Adrianus VERBRAAK (87), Hoogerheide, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• * Alida Cornelia van Mourik (79)
• adrianus KUIPER (80), oosterland
• Alko PLAS (76), Haulerwijk (Ooststellingwerf) Friesland Netherlands
• Catharina Maria BARHORST (83), Texel (NL)
• Barend van Ginkel (71), unbekannt
• Carlos Maurício Levacov (54), Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
• Antje Beekenkamp (83), 's-Gravenhage

• 1984 » Alexander Semin, Russian ice hockey player
• 1984 » Santonio Holmes, American football player
• 1984 » Valerio Bernabò, Italian rugby player
• 1986 » Jed Collins, American football player
• 1986 » Mehmet Topal, Turkish footballer
• 1986 » Stacie Orrico, American singer-songwriter
• 1987 » Jesús Padilla, Mexican footballer
• 1987 » Shraddha Kapoor, Indian actress, singer, and designer
• 1988 » Michael Morrison, English footballer
• 1988 » Teodora Mirčić, Serbian tennis player

• 1981 » Rebecca Lancefield, American microbiologist and researcher (b. 1895)
• 1982 » Firaq Gorakhpuri, Indian poet and critic (b. 1896)
• 1982 » Georges Perec, French author and screenwriter (b. 1936)
• 1983 » Hergé, Belgian author and illustrator (b. 1907)
• 1987 » Danny Kaye, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1911)
• 1988 » Henryk Szeryng, Polish-Mexican violinist and composer (b. 1918)
• 1988 » Sewall Wright, American biologist and geneticist (b. 1889)
• 1990 » Charlotte Moore Sitterly, American astronomer (b. 1898)
• 1991 » Arthur Murray, American dancer and educator (b. 1895)
• 1991 » William Penney, Baron Penney, Gibraltar-born English mathematician, physicist, and academic (b. 1909)

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. Anna
12. Amanda
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.
• August 21 » Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometer range.
• October 29 » British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.
• November 3 » Iran–Contra affair: The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reports that the United States has been secretly selling weapons to Iran in order to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.
• November 21 » National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents allegedly implicating them in the Iran–Contra affair.
• November 22 » Mike Tyson from Brooklyn, New York becomes the youngest heavyweight champion in boxing history at age 20.
• December 23 » Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California becoming the first aircraft to fly non-stop around the world without aerial or ground refueling.

The temperature on March 3, 1986 was between -8.1 °C and 3.4 °C and averaged -3.1 °C. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.