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• Kees van Dijk
• Cornelis Willem Pots, Leiderdorp

• Aafje Dekker (85)
• Adriana Burger (86), Oudewater
• Bernard Kouwenberg (48)
• Aagje Blokland (93), Amsterdam
• Bastiaan van Zwienen (79), Giessendam
• Agatha Alida van Rossum (61), Woerden
• Adina Mensinger (77), New Troy, Berrien, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Alberta Johanna Bosveld (73), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aagje Blokland (93), Amsterdam
• Adriana Gerarda Aplonia van Vliet (83), Udenhout

• 1981 » Warren Feeney, Northern Irish footballer and manager
• 1982 » Amanda Wilkinson, Canadian singer
• 1982 » Dwyane Wade, American basketball player
• 1983 » Álvaro Arbeloa, Spanish footballer
• 1983 » Johannes Herber, German basketball player
• 1983 » Marcelo Garcia, Brazilian martial artist
• 1983 » Rick Kelly, Australian race car driver
• 1984 » Calvin Harris, Scottish singer-songwriter, DJ, and producer
• 1985 » Betsy Ruth, American wrestler and manager
• 1985 » Pablo Barrientos, Argentinian footballer

• 1972 » Betty Smith, American author and playwright (b. 1896)
• 1977 » Dougal Haston, Scottish mountaineer (b. 1940)
• 1977 » Gary Gilmore, American murderer (b. 1940)
• 1981 » Loukas Panourgias, Greek footballer and lawyer (b. 1899)
• 1984 » Kostas Giannidis, Greek pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1903)
• 1987 » Hugo Fregonese, Argentinian director and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 1988 » Percy Qoboza, South African journalist and author (b. 1938)
• 1991 » Olav V of Norway (b. 1903)
• 1992 » Frank Pullen, English soldier and businessman (b. 1915)
• 1993 » Albert Hourani, English-Lebanese historian and academic (b. 1915)

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. Johanna
8. Marieke
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.
• April 7 » During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first Space Shuttle spacewalk.
• April 22 » The German magazine Stern claims the "Hitler Diaries" had been found in wreckage in East Germany; the diaries are subsequently revealed to be forgeries.
• April 25 » Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
• July 7 » Cold War: Samantha Smith, a US schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.
• November 8 » TAAG Angola Airlines Flight 462 crashes after takeoff from Lubango Airport killing all 130 people on board. UNITA claims to have shot down the aircraft, though this is disputed.
• November 17 » The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico.

The temperature on January 17, 1983 was between 7.1 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.