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• Ronald Gerrit List, Den Helder († 2007)
• Norman Goree Kittrell V <KB BdTxBI-FbPqUSS>2, Harris County, Texas
• Sabine Chantal Visser, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland

• Ane van Rees (83)
• Anna Carharina Gladpootjes (88), Warnsveld
• Alexander Looijen (76), Den Haag, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Elisabeth INDESTEEGE (91), Lanaken (Limburg) (B)
• Anna Elisabeth Arets (86), Heerlen
• Bernardus Johannes Gielink (78)
• Anje Buikema (92), Winsum, Groningen, Nederland
• Caspar Joseph Stijns (74), Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland
• Antoine Joannes Josephus Nulens (75), Lanaken (B)
• Arie Adriaan Bikker (91)

• 1980 » Keith Dabengwa, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1982 » Cheerleader Melissa, American wrestler and manager
• 1982 » Mark Salling, American actor and musician († 2018)
• 1982 » Phil Jagielka, English footballer
• 1983 » Dustin Pedroia, American baseball player
• 1984 » Dee Brown, American basketball player
• 1984 » Garrett Wolfe, American football player
• 1984 » Liam Heath, British sprint canoeist
• 1984 » Oksana Domnina, Russian ice dancer
• 1985 » Yū Aoi, Japanese actress and model

• 1977 » Delmer Daves, American screenwriter, director and producer (b. 1904)
• 1979 » John C. Allen, American roller coaster designer (b. 1907)
• 1979 » Vivian Vance, American actress and singer (b. 1909)
• 1983 » Ira Gershwin, American songwriter (b. 1896)
• 1987 » Gary Chester, Italian drummer and educator (b. 1924)
• 1987 » Rudolf Hess, German soldier and politician (b. 1894)
• 1987 » Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 1988 » Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1914)
• 1988 » Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Pakistani general and politician, 6th President of Pakistan (b. 1924)
• 1988 » Victoria Shaw, Australian-American actress (b. 1935)

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.
• April 7 » During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first Space Shuttle spacewalk.
• May 6 » The Hitler Diaries are revealed as a hoax after being examined by new experts.
• September 27 » Richard Stallman announces the GNU Project to develop a free Unix-like operating system.
• 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.
• October 12 » Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from the Lockheed Corporation, and is sentenced to four years in jail.
• December 31 » Benjamin Ward is appointed New York City Police Department's first ever African American police commissioner.

The temperature on August 17, 1983 was between 16.0 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 17.6 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain during 4.5 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.