About the day » Thursday March 24, 1983Calender converter

• Klaas Ossel, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Andrea Boterman, Amersfoort,, Utrecht, Nederland († 1983)
• Ronald van Oldenbarneveld gen. Witte Tullingh, Sneek
• Klaas Ossel, Emmen Drenthe Nederland († 1983)
• Manon Somers, Etten Leur, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Andrea Boterman, Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland († 1983)
• Sjoerd Guyt, Venlo († 2015)

• Anna Maria Dobbelstein (69), Sittard (Sittard-Geleen), Limburg, Nederland
• Adriana HONCOOP (102), Wijk en Aalburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arnoldus. Hassert (76), Bocholtz
• Alijda (Lijda) van de Klashorst (84), Amersfoort
• Adriana Honcoop (102), Wijk en Aalburg
• Ceda Mae Cannon **** (82), Rockingham, Richmond, North Carolina, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Huijgens (73), Etten-Leur, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albertus Snijder (66), Bonaire (NA)
• Catharina J. W. M. de Bie (76), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Overvoorde (76), Rotterdam

• 1982 » Corey Hart, American baseball player
• 1982 » Dustin McGowan, American baseball player
• 1982 » Epico Colon, Puerto Rican professional wrestler
• 1982 » Jack Swagger, American mixed martial artist and professional wrestler
• 1982 » Jimmy Hempte, Belgian footballer
• 1983 » Luca Ceccarelli, Italian footballer
• 1983 » Pierre-Alexandre Parenteau, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1983 » Riccardo Musetti, Italian footballer
• 1983 » T.J. Ford, American basketball player
• 1984 » Benoît Assou-Ekotto, French born Cameroonian international footballer, left-back

• 1976 » Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, English field marshal (b. 1887)
• 1978 » Park Mok-wol, influential Korean poet and academic (b. 1916)
• 1980 » Óscar Romero, Salvadoran archbishop (b. 1917)
• 1984 » Sam Jaffe, American actor (b. 1891)
• 1985 » Raoul Ubac, French painter, sculptor, photographer and engraver (b. 1910)
• 1988 » Turhan Feyzioğlu, Turkish academic and politician, 27th Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1922)
• 1990 » Ray Goulding, American comedian and radio host (b. 1922)
• 1991 » John Kerr, Australian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1914)
• 1993 » Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer, actor, and playwright (b. 1905)
• 1993 » John Hersey, American journalist and author (b. 1914)

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. Maarten
15. Martijn
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 8 » The Melbourne dust storm hits Australia's second largest city. The result of the worst drought on record and a day of severe weather conditions, a 320 metres (1,050ft) deep dust cloud envelops the city, turning day to night.
• April 25 » Cold War: American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
• July 25 » Black July: Thirty-seven Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
• September 12 » A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros.
• September 25 » Thirty-eight IRA prisoners, armed with six handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze Prison.
• October 22 » Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons.

The temperature on March 24, 1983 was between 2.1 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.