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• Bryan Earl ADAMS, Cedar City, Iron County, Utah, United States of America († 2004)
• Maria Quist, Arnemuiden, Zeeland, Nederland NED († 1995)
• Waylon Dewayne Hillard, Fayette (Franklin County) (Kentucky) († 2018)

• Celia Pille (77), Vlaardingen
• Elsje Dekker (93), Enschede
• Dorothy P Perry (69), Camden, Camden County, New Jersey, United States of America
• Edmond Ernest Joseph VOZ (88), Fontenay-sous-Bois, 94033, Val de Marne, Île-de-France, France
• Alexandre Torlonia (74), Rome, Latium, Italie
• Doris Bird JOHNSTON (81), Wynyard, Tasmania, Australia
• Alessandro de Torlonia (74)
• Adriaan Michiel Viergever (66), 's Gravenhage
• Cornelia Sophia Habets (91), Eindhoven
• Emily Francisca Wilhelmina Maria Albers (88), Breda, NBr, NL

• 1983 » Holly Valance, Australian actress, singer and model
• 1983 » Matt Leinart, American football player
• 1983 » Steven Sotloff, American-Israeli journalist († 2014)
• 1984 » Andrés Iniesta, Spanish footballer
• 1986 » Abou Diaby, French footballer
• 1986 » Miguel Veloso, Portuguese footballer
• 1987 » Lim Seul-ong, South Korean singer and actor
• 1987 » Monica Roșu, Romanian gymnast
• 1988 » Brad Marchand, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1988 » Jeremy Maclin, American football player

• 1979 » Lester Flatt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1914)
• 1981 » Bob Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)
• 1981 » Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1983 » Zenna Henderson, American writer (b. 1917)
• 1985 » Chester Gould, American cartoonist, created Dick Tracy (b. 1900)
• 1986 » Fritz Pollard, American football player and coach (b. 1894)
• 1988 » Kim Philby, British-Soviet double agent (b. 1912)
• 1994 » Timothy Carey, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1928)
• 2001 » Douglas Adams, English novelist and screenwriter (b. 1952)
• 2002 » Renaude Lapointe, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1912)

• 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 23 » The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.
• February 28 » Olof Palme, 26th Prime Minister of Sweden, is assassinated in Stockholm.
• June 14 » The Mindbender derails and kills three riders at the Fantasyland (known today as Galaxyland) indoor amusement park in Edmonton, Alberta.
• October 10 » A 5.7 M_w  San Salvador earthquake shakes El Salvador, killing 1,500.
• November 2 » U.S. hostage David Jacobsen is released in Beirut after 17 months in captivity.
• November 25 » The King Fahd Causeway is officially opened in the Persian Gulf.

The temperature on May 11, 1986 was between 8.6 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (21%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.