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• Cornelis van Rooij (82), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Carla de Vriend (55), Den Haag
• Aaltje BAKKENES (83), Barneveld, Nederland, Gelderland, Nederland
• Dirk KROON (89), Oud-Loosdrecht,Gemeente Wijdemeren,North Holland,Nederland
• Arie Cornelis Remmelzwaal (74), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Verkerke (59), Sint Philipsland, Zeeland (Nederland)
• Albert van WAKEREN (22)
• Cornelis Iske (87), Amsterdam
• Adrianus Marinus van den Avoort (72), Veghel
• Della Allene Reeves (66), Logan, Kentucky, United States

• 1982 » Jason Brown, English footballer
• 1982 » Marie-Ève Pelletier, Canadian tennis player
• 1983 » Gary O'Neil, English footballer
• 1983 » Luis Terrero, Dominican baseball player
• 1983 » Vince Young, American football player
• 1984 » Darius Šilinskis, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1984 » Ivet Lalova, Bulgarian sprinter
• 1984 » Joakim Soria, Mexican baseball player
• 1984 » Niki Terpstra, Dutch cyclist
• 1984 » Simon Pagenaud, French race car driver

• 1973 » Jeannette Rankin, American social worker and politician (b. 1880)
• 1974 » Harry Ricardo, English engine designer and researcher (b. 1885)
• 1975 » Leroy Anderson, American composer and conductor (b. 1908)
• 1980 » Ian Curtis, English singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
• 1980 » Victims of Mount St. Helens eruption:
• 1981 » Arthur O'Connell, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1981 » William Saroyan, American novelist, playwright, and short story writer (b. 1908)
• 1987 » Mahdi Amel, Lebanese journalist, poet, and academic (b. 1936)
• 1989 » Dorothy Ruth, American horse breeder and author (b. 1921)
• 1990 » Jill Ireland, English actress (b. 1936)

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. Martijn
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.
• 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.
• May 17 » Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
• June 2 » After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire, twenty-three passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 are killed when a flashover occurs as the plane's doors open. Because of this incident, numerous new safety regulations are put in place.
• June 13 » Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune.
• September 1 » Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace, killing all 269 on board, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald.
• November 8 » TAAG Angola Airlines Flight 462 crashes after takeoff from Lubango Airport killing all 130 people on board. UNITA claims to have shot down the aircraft, though this is disputed.

The temperature on May 18, 1983 was between 7.8 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.