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• Anthony Sake Veldstra, Hamilton Ontario Canada

• Annie Krull (80), Buffalo Center, Iowa
• Cornelis Peterus van den Diepstraten (85), Schaaik, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelis Petrus van den Diepstraten (85), Schaijk
• Catharina Nagelkerke (98), Kenosha, WI (USA)
• Berend Riemersma (71), -
• Arnold van Eyden (71)
• Eugene Edward Bruce (69), Cairo, Grady Cnty, Georgia, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelis Stolk (94), Ridderkerk Z.H
• Augustina A.E. Roos (85)
• Elizabeth Veldman (73), Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1985 » Demba Ba, French footballer
• 1985 » Gert Kams, Estonian footballer
• 1985 » Luciana Abreu, Portuguese singer and actress
• 1985 » Roman Reigns, American football player and wrestler
• 1986 » Edewin Fanini, Brazilian footballer
• 1986 » Geraint Thomas, Welsh cyclist
• 1986 » Takahiro Hōjō, Japanese actor and musician
• 1986 » Yoan Gouffran, French footballer
• 1987 » Timothy Derijck, Belgian footballer
• 1987 » Yves De Winter, Belgian footballer

• 1977 » Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian author (b. 1904)
• 1979 » Amédée Gordini, Italian-born French racing driver and sports car manufacturer (b. 1899)
• 1979 » Itzhak Bentov, Czech-Israeli engineer, mystic, and author (b. 1923)
• 1981 » Fredric Warburg, English author and publisher (b. 1898)
• 1981 » Ruby Payne-Scott, Australian physicist and astronomer (b. 1912)
• 1983 » Idris of Libya (b. 1889)
• 1983 » Jack Stewart, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1917)
• 1983 » Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, Turkish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1904)
• 1986 » Chester Bowles, American journalist and politician, 22nd Under Secretary of State (b. 1901)
• 1990 » Vic Tayback, American actor (b. 1930)

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.
• April 26 » A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in the Soviet Union, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.
• April 27 » The city of Pripyat and surrounding areas are evacuated due to Chernobyl disaster.
• April 28 » High levels of radiation resulting from the Chernobyl disaster are detected at a nuclear power plant in Sweden, leading Soviet authorities to publicly announce the accident.
• September 5 » Pan Am Flight 73 from Mumbai, India with 358 people on board is hijacked at Karachi International Airport.
• September 7 » Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Diocese of Cape Town.
• October 11 » Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Iceland to continue discussions about scaling back IRBM arsenals in Europe.

The temperature on May 25, 1986 was between 8.2 °C and 21.9 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 13.0 hours of sunshine (81%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.