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• Patty Kleine, Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland
• Berry Van Roy, Bornem, België († 2014)
• Johan Weide, Lutten († 1986)
• Berry Van Roy, Bornem († 2014)
• Britt Ansems († 2009)
• Jesper Groen, Hoorn († 2000)

• Anna Willems DRENTH (91), Grand Rapids Kent County Michigan U.S.A
• Arnold Kooiman (0)
• Antonius Johannes van Gorkum (65), Gilze en Rijen
• Cornelia Alberta Sepers (85), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana van Zon (86), Vlijmen
• Cornelia Wilhelmina Maria Druenen van (91), Tilburg
• Anna Drenth (91), Grand Rapids Michigan ( Usa)
• Cornelis Jonker (56), Katwijk
• Dirk Meder (84), Vlaardingen
• Derk Hidding (82)

• 1985 » Adam Jones, American baseball player
• 1985 » Cole Kimball, American baseball player
• 1985 » Kris Stadsgaard, Danish footballer
• 1985 » Stuart Holden, Scottish-American soccer player
• 1985 » Tendai Mtawarira, South African rugby player
• 1986 » Andrew Taylor, English footballer
• 1986 » Anton Strålman, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1986 » Damien Allen, English footballer
• 1986 » Elena Vesnina, Russian tennis player
• 1986 » Mike Wallace, American football player

• 1974 » Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian cardinal (b. 1898)
• 1977 » Francis Gary Powers, American captain and pilot (b. 1929)
• 1980 » Patrick Depailler, French race car driver (b. 1944)
• 1980 » Strother Martin, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1981 » Paddy Chayefsky, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1923)
• 1982 » T. Thirunavukarasu, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (b. 1933)
• 1989 » John Ogdon, English pianist and composer (b. 1937)
• 1990 » Norbert Elias, German-Dutch sociologist, author, and academic (b. 1897)
• 1996 » Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Canadian physician and surgeon (b. 1929)
• 1996 » Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)

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 8 » Hinton train collision: Twenty-three people are killed when a VIA Rail passenger train collides with a 118-car Canadian National freight train near the town of Hinton, Alberta, west of Edmonton. It is the worst rail accident in Canada until the Lac-Mégantic, Quebec derailment in 2013 which killed forty-seven people.
• February 9 » Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System.
• June 22 » The famous Hand of God goal, scored by Diego Maradona in the quarter-finals of the 1986 FIFA World Cup match between Argentina and England, ignites controversy. This was later followed by the Goal of the Century. Argentina wins 2–1 and later goes on to win the World Cup.
• June 30 » The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Bowers v. Hardwick that states can outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults.
• August 21 » Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometer range.
• October 3 » TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories in Canada, is officially opened.

The temperature on August 1, 1986 was between 13.7 °C and 21.6 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.