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• Austin Dean Tjepkes, Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa († 2004)
• Haitsk Nijenkamp, Raalte, Nederland
• Mathias VANHESTE, Veurne, 8630, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique († 2007)
• Laura Alida Hermans, Nootdorp

• Anna Hendrika Bouwman (86)
• Anna Kosielski (95)
• Emilie L Eyraud (83), Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten
• Adriaan van Ast (79), Bergen op Zoom
• Arend Vermeer (79), Monster
• Antoni Warelis (89)
• Arie de Hoog, Delfgauw, Z-H
• Adriaan van Ast (79), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Andries van Nek (87), Nelson New Zealamd
• Betty Eileen Billhimer (56), Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, Verenigde Staten

• 1983 » Scott McDonald, Australian footballer
• 1984 » Melvin Upton, Jr., American baseball player
• 1984 » Neil Dexter, South African cricketer
• 1985 » Aleksandra Kiryashova, Russian pole vaulter
• 1985 » Nicolás Almagro, Spanish tennis player
• 1986 » Koki Sakamoto, Japanese gymnast
• 1986 » Usain Bolt, Jamaican sprinter
• 1986 » Wout Brama, Dutch footballer
• 1988 » Kacey Musgraves, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1988 » Robert Lewandowski, Polish footballer

• 1978 » Charles Eames, American architect, co-designed the Eames House (b. 1907)
• 1979 » Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1910)
• 1981 » Kaka Kalelkar, Indian Hindi Writer(B.1885)
• 1983 » Benigno Aquino, Jr., Filipino journalist and politician (b. 1932)
• 1988 » Ray Eames, American architect, co-designed the Eames House (b. 1912)
• 1988 » Teodoro de Villa Diaz, Filipino guitarist and songwriter (b. 1963)
• 1989 » Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1945)
• 1993 » Tatiana Troyanos, American soprano and actress (b. 1938)
• 1995 » Chuck Stevenson, American race car driver (b. 1919)
• 1995 » Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-American astrophysicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)

• 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 13 » A month-long violent struggle begins in Aden, South Yemen between supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties.
• January 26 » The Ugandan government of Tito Okello is overthrown by the National Resistance Army, led by Yoweri Museveni.
• February 28 » Olof Palme, 26th Prime Minister of Sweden, is assassinated in Stockholm.
• March 7 » Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USSPreserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
• April 1 » Communist Party of Nepal (Mashal) cadres attack a number of police stations in Kathmandu, seeking to incite a popular rebellion.
• 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 21, 1986 was between 4.8 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.