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• Jonathan Scott HARRIS, Castle Air Force Base, Merced County, California, United States of America († 2001)
• Sarah Faye WHELDON, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia († 1986)

• André Frederik Postmaa (56), De Hoef
• Cornelis Maarten van den Hooven (80), Voorburg
• Aart HEIJKOOP (69)
• Cornelis Maarten van den Hooven (80), Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aloyisius Joseph Even (78), Los Angeles
• cornelia elizabeth SPRUIT (87)
• Ferdiand de Willigen (86), Loenen aan de Vecht
• Edwin G. Draayer (56), Rock Valley, Sioux, Iowa, United States
• Elizabeth Kamminga (83), -
• Elizabeth Kamminga * (83)

• 1985 » Álvaro Negredo, Spanish footballer
• 1985 » Blake DeWitt, American baseball player
• 1985 » Brant Daugherty, American actor
• 1985 » Glen Buttriss, Australian rugby league player
• 1985 » Jack King, English footballer
• 1985 » Matt Hague, American baseball player
• 1985 » Thomas Domingo, French rugby player
• 1985 » Willie Ripia, New Zealand rugby player
• 1986 » Andrew Surman, South African-English footballer
• 1986 » Steven Zalewski, American ice hockey player

• 1979 » Christian Dotremont, Belgian painter and poet (b. 1922)
• 1980 » Joe Dassin, American-French singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
• 1982 » Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (b. 1929)
• 1985 » Donald O. Hebb, Canadian psychologist and academic (b. 1904)
• 1985 » Wilhelm Meendsen-Bohlken, German admiral (b. 1897)
• 1986 » Milton Acorn, Canadian poet and playwright (b. 1923)
• 1987 » Walenty Kłyszejko, Estonian-Polish basketball player and coach (b. 1909)
• 1993 » Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher and academic (b. 1912)
• 1995 » Hugo Pratt, Italian author and illustrator (b. 1927)
• 1996 » Rio Reiser, German singer-songwriter (b. 1950)

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 7 » Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.
• 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.
• 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.
• May 25 » The Hands Across America event takes place.
• August 20 » In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide.
• November 21 » National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents allegedly implicating them in the Iran–Contra affair.

The temperature on August 20, 1986 was between 6.9 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.