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• Kara Beyer († 1986)

• Adrianus Antonius van Bennekom (81), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abraham van der Kwaak (78)
• Antonia Pleijster (87), amsterdam, Nederland
• Adrianus Johannes van Loon (85)
• Eduard van Oijen (58), Amsterdam
• Eberhard Wilhelm Kelderman (71), Breda, Nederland
• Berbardus Antonius van Dam (69), Veghel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Eleonora Maria Augusta Taels‏ (77), Herentals, België
• David Brune (91), Lynden, Whatcom, Washington, Verenigde Staten
• Elisabeth Wiersenga (77)

• 1980 » Filip Bobek, Polish actor
• 1980 » Lucy Akello, Ugandan social worker and politician
• 1980 » Pāvels Doroševs, Latvian football goalkeeper
• 1981 » Darius Miles, American basketball player
• 1981 » Zachery Ty Bryan, American actor
• 1983 » Andreas Zuber, Austrian race car driver
• 1983 » Farhaan Behardien, South African cricketer
• 1983 » Jang Mi-ran, South Korean weightlifter
• 1983 » Stephen Gionta, American ice hockey player
• 1985 » David Plummer, American swimmer

• 1975 » Noon Meem Rashid, Pakistani poet (b. 1910)
• 1976 » Walter Warlimont, German general (b. 1894)
• 1978 » Jacques Brel, Belgian singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1929)
• 1982 » Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt, German historian and physician (b. 1893)
• 1985 » Emílio Garrastazu Médici, Brazilian general and politician, 28th President of Brazil (b. 1905)
• 1987 » Clare Boothe Luce, American author, playwright, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Italy (b. 1903)
• 1987 » William P. Murphy, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1988 » Felix Wankel, German engineer, invented the Wankel engine (b. 1902)
• 1989 » Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (b. 1940)
• 1989 » Yusuf Atılgan, Turkish author and playwright (b. 1921)

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. Martijn
14. Dennis
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.
• January 18 » The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family.
• May 1 » The Sydney Entertainment Centre is opened.
• September 6 » The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, stating that its operatives did not know that it was a civilian aircraft when it reportedly violated Soviet airspace.
• November 10 » Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0.
• December 17 » Provisional IRA members detonate a car bomb at Harrods Department Store in London. Three police officers and three civilians are killed.
• December 31 » Benjamin Ward is appointed New York City Police Department's first ever African American police commissioner.

The temperature on October 9, 1983 was between 7.7 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.