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• Matthew Ryan Zevenbergen († 1995)

• Antonius Abraham Johannes Sillevis (76), 's-Gravenhage
• Adriana Schoormans (70)
• Albert Heerink (90), Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Blanche Young (96), Beatrice, Gage, Nebraska, Verenigde Staten
• Catharina Dimphena van den Berg (78)
• Arend Frederik Alfred van Bohlen-Halbach (48)
• Anna Dorothea Noordhoff (68), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands
• Basil CHARLESTON (81), Massena St. Lawrence County New York U.S.A
• Albertus Mensink (85), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis de Kuiper (71)

• 1985 » Sarah Vaillancourt, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1985 » Silvia Stroescu, Romanian gymnast
• 1985 » Tommaso Ciampa, American wrestler
• 1985 » Usama Young, American football player
• 1986 » Galen Rupp, American runner
• 1986 » Marvell Wynne, American soccer player
• 1986 » Pemra Özgen, Turkish tennis player
• 1987 » Aarne Nirk, Estonian hurdler
• 1987 » Felix Jones, American football player
• 1987 » Mark Noble, English footballer

• 1982 » Neil Bogart, American record producer, co-founded Casablanca Records (b. 1943)
• 1983 » John Fante, American author and screenwriter (b. 1909)
• 1984 » Gino Bianco, Italian-Brazilian race car driver (b. 1916)
• 1984 » Lila Bell Wallace, American publisher, co-founded Reader's Digest (b. 1890)
• 1985 » Dolph Sweet, American actor (b. 1920)
• 1985 » Karl Marx, German conductor and composer (b. 1897)
• 1985 » Theodore Sturgeon, American author and critic (b. 1918)
• 1986 » Ernle Bradford, English historian and author (b. 1922)
• 1987 » Doris Stokes, English psychic and author (b. 1920)
• 1988 » Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer and screenwriter (b. 1907)

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.
• February 16 » China Airlines Flight 2265 crashes into the Pacific Ocean near Penghu Airport in Taiwan, killing all 13 aboard.
• April 14 » The heaviest hailstones ever recorded (1 kilogram (2.2lb)) fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92.
• April 29 » Chernobyl disaster: American and European spy satellites capture the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant.
• October 3 » TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories in Canada, is officially opened.
• October 29 » British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.
• 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 May 8, 1986 was between 6.5 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (35%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.