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• Marieke CAMMAERT, Ronse, 9600, Oost-Vlaanderen, Vlaanderen, België

• Albert Henry - Bud Hake (80), Marys Home, Miller, Missouri, United States
• Adriana Bakx (81), Oosterhout
• Bernard Markus (68), den Haag, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Antonius de Klerk (83), Breda,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelis BRASPENNING (64), Turnhout (B)
• Austen James Robert Walter (87), Surrey South Western, Surrey, England
• Andreas Franciscus Buys (72), Putte,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Schuijer (95)
• Angela Condon (88), Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga, Ohio
• Anna Weis (N69) (80), Schlüchtern, Hessen/Deutschland

• 1981 » Aaron Baddeley, American-Australian golfer
• 1981 » Kyle Korver, American basketball player
• 1981 » Nicky Jam, American-Puerto-Rican singer and songwriter
• 1981 » Servet Çetin, Turkish footballer
• 1982 » Steven Pienaar, South African footballer
• 1983 » Attila Vajda, Hungarian sprint canoeist
• 1983 » James Heath, English golfer
• 1983 » Raul Meireles, Portuguese footballer
• 1984 » Ryan Rottman, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1985 » Tuğba Karademir, Turkish-Canadian figure skater

• 1974 » Louis Kahn, American architect and academic, designed Jatiyo Sangsad Bhaban (b. 1901)
• 1976 » Luchino Visconti, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• 1981 » Paul Dean, American baseball player (b. 1913)
• 1983 » Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1983 » Louisa E. Rhine, American botanist and parapsychologist (b. 1891)
• 1986 » Clarence D. Lester, African-American fighter pilot (b.1923)
• 1990 » Capucine, French model and actress (b. 1928)
• 1992 » Grace Stafford, American actress (b. 1903)
• 1993 » Helen Hayes, American actress (b. 1900)
• 1994 » Mai Zetterling, Swedish-English actress and director (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. 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 1 » The ARPANET officially changes to using TCP/IP, the Internet Protocol, effectively creating the Internet.
• February 13 » A cinema fire in Turin, Italy, kills 64 people.
• May 1 » The Sydney Entertainment Centre is opened.
• May 17 » The U.S. Department of Energy declassifies documents showing world's largest mercury pollution event in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (ultimately found to be 4.2million pounds [1.9kt]), in response to the Appalachian Observer's Freedom of Information Act request.
• October 13 » Ameritech Mobile Communications launches the first US cellular network in Chicago.
• December 17 » Provisional IRA members detonate a car bomb at Harrods Department Store in London. Three police officers and three civilians are killed.

The temperature on March 17, 1983 was between 6.5 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 4.7 mm of rain during 7.1 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.