About the day » Wednesday July 2, 1986Calender converter

• Inge Rutten
• Yvette Leonie Nijboer, Dedemsvaart
• Tom de Heer

• * Jan Arie de Groot (74), Langerak
• Adriana Hendrika Mostert (94)
• Celina Magdalena WILLAERT (87), Moorslede
• Aart van Triest (60)
• arie LUIJENDIJK (72), strijen
• Anke Hoekstra (85)
• van Assouw (53), Best (Noord-Brabant, NLD)
• Adriaan Pieter van den Hoek (56), Leiden
• Corinne Jarrett (57), Fontana, California, Verenigde Staten
• Aaltje den Ouden (80), Bergambacht, Zuid Holland, Nederland

• 1983 » Michelle Branch, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1984 » Johnny Weir, American figure skater
• 1984 » Thomas Kortegaard, Danish footballer
• 1985 » Ashley Tisdale, American actress, singer, and producer
• 1985 » Chad Henne, American football player
• 1985 » Rhett Bomar, American football player
• 1986 » Brett Cecil, American baseball player
• 1986 » Lindsay Lohan, American actress and singer
• 1987 » Esteban Granero, Spanish footballer
• 1988 » Lee Chung-yong, South Korean footballer

• 1977 » Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born novelist and critic (b. 1899)
• 1978 » Aris Alexandrou, Greek author and poet (b. 1922)
• 1986 » Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player and manager (b. 1917)
• 1988 » Vibert Douglas, Canadian astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1894)
• 1989 » Andrei Gromyko, Soviet economist and politician, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1909)
• 1990 » Snooky Lanson, American singer (b. 1914)
• 1991 » Lee Remick, American actress (b. 1935)
• 1993 » Fred Gwynne, American actor (b. 1926)
• 1994 » Andrés Escobar, Colombian footballer (b. 1967)
• 1995 » Lloyd MacPhail, Canadian businessman and politician, 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island (b. 1920)

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.
• January 12 » Space Shuttle program: Congressman Bill Nelson lifts off from Kennedy Space Center aboard Columbia on mission STS-61-C as a payload specialist.
• January 28 » Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission: Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates after liftoff, killing all seven astronauts on board.
• April 14 » The heaviest hailstones ever recorded (1 kilogram (2.2lb)) fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92.
• June 30 » The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Bowers v. Hardwick that states can outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults.
• October 29 » British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher opens the last stretch of the M25 motorway.
• November 3 » The Compact of Free Association becomes law, granting the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands independence from the United States.

The temperature on July 2, 1986 was between 15.4 °C and 30.5 °C and averaged 23.4 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.