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• Jens Vandepitte, Roeselare († 1992)
• Shannon Lee Mc Laughlin

• Arie Bras (86), dordrecht
• Adrianus Antonius Geerts (78), Breda
• 00 Hendricus Albertus van Ommen (80), Rhenen, Utrecht, NL
• Amanda Evelyn Lewis (74), Fairfax, Virginia, Verenigde Staten
• Arnolda Maria Haans (87), Heerlen
• Antonie Wouters (92), Dordrecht, Nederland
• Anna Raaijmakers (76), Oisterwijk
• Antonius Antonie van DULMEN (78), Ammerzoden,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aartje Ligtermoet (86), Putten
• Bertha Aten (85), Amsterdam

• 1981 » Frédérick Bousquet, French swimmer
• 1981 » Ofer Shechter, Israeli model, actor, and screenwriter
• 1982 » Brett White, Australian rugby league player
• 1982 » Gennady Golovkin, Kazakhstani boxer
• 1983 » Tatyana Petrova Arkhipova, Russian runner
• 1984 » Ezra Koenig, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1984 » Michelle Donelan, British politician
• 1984 » Pablo Portillo, Mexican singer and actor
• 1984 » Taran Noah Smith, American actor
• 1985 » Patrick Schliwa, German rugby player

• 1973 » Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1881)
• 1974 » James Charles McGuigan, Canadian cardinal (b. 1894)
• 1979 » Breece D'J Pancake, American short story writer (b. 1952)
• 1981 » Omar Bradley, American general (b. 1893)
• 1983 » Isamu Kosugi, Japanese actor and director (b. 1904)
• 1984 » Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1894)
• 1985 » John Frederick Coots, American pianist and composer (b. 1897)
• 1990 » Ryan White, American activist, inspired the Ryan White Care Act (b. 1971)
• 1991 » Per Ohlin, Swedish musician (b. 1969)
• 1992 » Daniel Bovet, Swiss-Italian pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)

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.
• February 13 » A cinema fire in Turin, Italy, kills 64 people.
• March 1 » First collection of twelve Swatch models was introduced in Zürich, Switzerland.
• March 21 » The first cases of the 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic begin; Israelis and Palestinians accuse each other of poison gas, but the cause is later determined mostly to be psychosomatic.
• May 20 » First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier.
• November 17 » The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico.
• December 4 » US Navy aircraft from USS John F. Kennedy and USS Independence attack Syrian Missile sites in Lebanon in response to an F-14 being fired on by an SA-7. One A-6 Intruder and A-7 Corsair are shot down. 1 American pilot was killed, one was rescued and one is captured.

The temperature on April 8, 1983 was between 1.9 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain during 4.1 hours. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.