About the day » Wednesday August 24, 1983Calender converter

• Robert Jan van der Plas, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2016)
• Nicholas James Devine, Alameda Co., CA († 2008)
• Rob van der Plas, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2016)

• Bernardus Jacobus Struijs (80), Breda
• Eduard Willem Meijerman (74), Zelhem, Or. Nassaustr. 3
• Biense Wolters (77), Duncan, Britisch Columbia, Canada
• Anna Manning (87), Teteringen,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alida Cornelia van der Poel (81), Glenfiled, Auckland, Nieuw Zeeland
• Cornelis Wouter van Boxel (78), Chaam
• Cor Weijters (81), Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelis Johannes de Rijk (75), Hoogeveen
• Alida Cornelia van der Poel (81), NZL
• Charlotte Burget (73), Zürich,Bezirk Zürich,Zürich,Suisse

• 1981 » Chad Michael Murray, American model and actor
• 1982 » Glen Atle Larsen, Norwegian footballer
• 1982 » José Bosingwa, Portuguese footballer
• 1982 » Kim Källström, Swedish footballer
• 1983 » Brett Gardner, American baseball player
• 1983 » George Perris, Greek-French singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1983 » Marcel Goc, German ice hockey player
• 1984 » Charlie Villanueva, American basketball player
• 1984 » Erin Molan, Australian journalist and sportscaster
• 1986 » Nick Adenhart, American baseball player († 2009)

• 1977 » Buddy O'Connor, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1916)
• 1978 » Louis Prima, American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, and actor (b. 1910)
• 1979 » Hanna Reitsch, German soldier and pilot (b. 1912)
• 1980 » Yootha Joyce, English actress (b. 1927)
• 1982 » Félix-Antoine Savard, Canadian priest and author (b. 1896)
• 1983 » Kalevi Kotkas, Estonian-Finnish high jumper and discus thrower (b. 1913)
• 1983 » Scott Nearing, American economist, educator, and activist (b. 1883)
• 1985 » Paul Creston, American composer and educator (b. 1906)
• 1987 » Malcolm Kirk, English rugby player and wrestler (b. 1936)
• 1990 » Sergei Dovlatov, Russian-American journalist and author (b. 1941)

1. Jan
2. Mark
3. Michael
4. Pieter
5. Johannes
6. Jeroen
7. Robert
8. Bart
9. David
10. Peter
11. Paul
12. Thomas
13. Dennis
14. Martijn
15. Maarten
16. Christopher

1. Maria
2. Linda
3. Jessica
4. Kim
5. Nicole
6. Sarah
7. Marieke
8. Johanna
9. Jennifer
10. Anna
11. Wendy
12. Laura
13. Elisabeth
14. Saskia
15. Ilona
16. Ellen

• 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.
• The Netherlands had about 14.3 million citizens.
• February 13 » A cinema fire in Turin, Italy, kills 64 people.
• March 8 » Cold War: While addressing a convention of Evangelicals, U.S. President Ronald Reagan labels the Soviet Union an "evil empire".
• April 25 » Cold War: American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
• April 25 » Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
• July 1 » A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashes into the Fouta Djallon mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
• July 7 » Cold War: Samantha Smith, a US schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.

The temperature on August 24, 1983 was between 15.8 °C and 23.6 °C and averaged 18.9 °C. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.