About the day » Monday October 17, 1983Calender converter

• Tamara Thys, Duffel
• Grégoire DECLÈVE († 1983)
• Jennifeer L. Church
• Roy L Braddy, Pesacola, Escampia County, Florida (USA) († 2007)
• Steven Donald ROOTES († 1983)

• Anna Adriaanse (66), Gaastmeer, Wymbritseradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Adriana Johanna Maria van der Lans (48)
• Alphonse Hesselaar (67), Maastricht
• Clazina Francina Marie van Aalst (71), Heesselt
• Cornelis Petrus van Assenbergh (79), Rotterdam
• * Woutrina Maria van Hulten (81)
• Alexander Braz (85), Israel
• Christaan Antonius Does (59), Voorhout
• Christine Annie May (85), Cuba, AL
• Bernardus Petrus Cornelius Faber (74), Rotterdam

• 1982 » Rubén Ramírez, Argentine football striker
• 1983 » Felicity Jones, English actress
• 1983 » Ivan Saenko, Russian footballer
• 1983 » Junichi Miyashita, Japanese swimmer
• 1983 » Michelle Ang, New Zealander actress
• 1983 » Milica Brozovic, Serbian-Russian figure skater
• 1983 » Mitch Talbot, American baseball player
• 1983 » Riki Miura, Japanese actor
• 1983 » Toshihiro Matsushita, Japanese footballer
• 1983 » Vitali Teleš, Estonian footballer

• 1978 » George Clark, American race car driver (b. 1890)
• 1978 » Giovanni Gronchi, Italian educator, soldier, and politician, 3rd President of the Italian Republic (b. 1887)
• 1979 » Eugenio Mendoza, Venezuelan business tycoon (b. 1909)
• 1979 » John Stuart, Scottish-English actor (b. 1898)
• 1979 » S. J. Perelman, American humorist and screenwriter (b. 1904)
• 1981 » Albert Cohen, Greek-Swiss civil servant and author (b. 1895)
• 1981 » Kannadasan Indian author, poet, and songwriter (b. 1927)
• 1981 » Lina Tsaldari, Greek politician (b. 1887)
• 1983 » Raymond Aron, French sociologist, political scientist, and philosopher (b. 1905)
• 1987 » Abdul Malek Ukil, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician (b. 1925)

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. Maarten
14. Martijn
15. Dennis
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.
• February 16 » The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75.
• March 1 » First collection of twelve Swatch models was introduced in Zürich, Switzerland.
• March 23 » Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.
• July 15 » An attack at Orly Airport in Paris is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA, leaving eight people dead and 55 injured.
• July 27 » Black July: Eighteen Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by Sinhalese prisoners, the second such massacre in two days.
• December 31 » In Nigeria a coup d'état led by Major General Muhammadu Buhari ends the Second Nigerian Republic.

The temperature on October 17, 1983 was between 7.7 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 7.2 mm of rain during 5.4 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.