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• roy petrus maria (roy) keijsers, venray
• Stefan Stroink, Lingen
• Marieke Hendriks, Doornenburg

• Aaltje de LANGE (81), Ommen
• Cornelia Pietertje Brouwer (74), Everdingen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Antje Woelinga (85)
• Cornelia van den Braak (73), Nieuw-Ginneken
• Adrianus Antonius van Zantvliet (64)
• Aagje Neeltje Knoot (80), (vermoedelijk) Numansdorp
• Albertus Van Remoortere (70), Sint Jansteen
• Agnes C (86), Brentwood, Williamson, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten
• Alvin A. Peterson (81), Wisconsin
• Anna Maria Musch (84), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland

• 1981 » Titus Bramble, English footballer
• 1982 » Anabel Medina Garrigues, Spanish tennis player
• 1982 » DeMarcus Ware, American football player
• 1985 » Daniel Ciofani, Italian footballer
• 1985 » Rémy Di Gregorio, French cyclist
• 1986 » Brian Orakpo, American football player
• 1986 » Evgeni Malkin, Russian ice hockey player
• 1987 » Michael Bradley, American soccer player
• 1988 » Alex Glenn, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1989 » Victoria Azarenka, Belorussian tennis player

• 1979 » Beatrix Lehmann, English actress and director (b. 1903)
• 1980 » Mohammed Rafi, Indian playback singer (b. 1924)
• 1980 » Pascual Jordan, German physicist, author, and academic (b. 1902)
• 1981 » Omar Torrijos, Panamanian general and politician, Military Leader of Panama (b. 1929)
• 1985 » Eugene Carson Blake, American religious leader (b. 1906)
• 1986 » Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (b. 1900)
• 1987 » Joseph E. Levine, American film producer (b, 1905)
• 1990 » Albert Leduc, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
• 1992 » Leonard Cheshire, English captain and pilot (b. 1917)
• 1993 » Baudouin, King of Belgium (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. Amanda
12. Stephanie
13. Anna
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 7 » Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.
• March 27 » A car bomb explodes outside Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, Australia, killing one police officer and injuring 21 people.
• 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.
• October 5 » Mordechai Vanunu's story in The Sunday Times reveals Israel's secret nuclear weapons.
• November 25 » Iran–Contra affair: U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
• December 23 » Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California becoming the first aircraft to fly non-stop around the world without aerial or ground refueling.

The temperature on July 31, 1986 was between 13.6 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.