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• Kara Beyer († 1986)

• Bernardina Johanna Luttikhuis (67), Oldenzaal
• Antonette van Grootheest (85)
• Chelle Heylen (65), Hechtel-Eksel, Limburg, België
• Elisabeth Wiersenga (77)
• DELPHINA RIJCKAERT (72), DE KLINGE,OOST-VLAANDEREN,BELGIE
• André Edouard Louis Désiré BERAT (73), Faches-Thumesnil, France
• Berbardus Antonius van Dam (69), Veghel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelis Petrus Hoogendijk (66), Leiderdorp
• Annigje Boxem (62)
• Alfred Ernest Ellem (72)

• 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. Maarten
14. Martijn
15. Dennis
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.
• March 23 » Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.
• May 26 » The 7.8 M_w  Sea of Japan earthquake shakes northern Honshu with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami is generated that leaves about 100 people dead.
• July 11 » A TAME airline Boeing 737-200 crashes near Cuenca, Ecuador, killing all 119 passengers and crew on board.
• September 23 » Gulf Air Flight 771 is destroyed by a bomb, killing all 117 people on board.
• October 9 » South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan survives an assassination attempt in Rangoon, Burma (present-day Yangon, Myanmar), but the blast kills 21 and injures 17 others.
• November 26 » Brink's-Mat robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are stolen from the Brink's-Mat vault at Heathrow Airport.

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.