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• Roel van Heijst († 2009)

• Adriana Petronella KUIJPERS (81), Zevenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Carl Friedrich Seybold (93), Defiance,, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Theresia van Oosterbosch (66), Brunssum, Limburg, Nederland
• Aaltje van Ommen (91), Wezep (Gem. Oldebroek)
• Albert Earl Dawson (78), Ranger, Eastland, Texas, United States of America
• Aaltje van Van Ommen-Van Ommen (92), Wezep (Gem. Oldebroek
• Antje Aaltina (Annie) VAN DER VELDE (72), Assen Drenthe Netherlands
• Aaron Vester Ledkins (74), Century, Escambia County, Florida, United States of America
• Alexander Bakker (54), Zwolle,, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes Elonardus van der Helm (74), Pijnacker, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1983 » Aaron Gillespie, American singer-songwriter and drummer
• 1983 » Carlos Diogo, Uruguayan footballer
• 1983 » Mikk Pahapill, Estonian decathlete
• 1985 » Chace Crawford, American actor
• 1985 » James Norton, English actor
• 1985 » Panagiotis Lagos, Greek footballer
• 1986 » Natalia Mikhailova, Russian ice dancer
• 1987 » Tontowi Ahmad, Indonesian badminton player
• 1988 » Änis Ben-Hatira, German-Tunisian footballer
• 1988 » César Villaluz, Mexican footballer

• 1982 » Roman Jakobson, Russian–American linguist and theorist (b. 1896)
• 1984 » Grigori Kromanov, Estonian director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 1984 » Lally Bowers, English actress (b. 1914)
• 1987 » Gilberto Freyre, Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman (b. 1907)
• 1988 » Joly Braga Santos, Portuguese composer and conductor (b. 1924)
• 1988 » Nico, German singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and actress (b. 1938)
• 1989 » Donnie Moore, American baseball player (b. 1954)
• 1989 » Rebecca Schaeffer, American model and actress (b. 1967)
• 1990 » Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1896)
• 1990 » Yun Posun, South Korean politician, 2nd President of South Korea (b. 1897)

• 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 9 » Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System.
• March 3 » The Australia Act 1986 commences, causing Australia to become fully independent from the United Kingdom.
• April 5 » Three people are killed in the bombing of the La Belle discotheque in West Berlin, Germany.
• May 2 » Chernobyl disaster: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster.
• October 27 » The British government suddenly deregulates financial markets, leading to a total restructuring of the way in which they operate in the country, in an event now referred to as the Big Bang.
• November 25 » The King Fahd Causeway is officially opened in the Persian Gulf.

The temperature on July 18, 1986 was between 9.2 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.