About the day » Wednesday August 31, 1983Calender converter

• Niek Waldijk, Aduard,, Groningen, Nederland († 2013)
• Amanda Ellen Carr, ElDorado Springs, Cedar County, Missouri († 1987)
• Manuel Klaassen, Arnhem († 2021)

• Anna Maria Leonia Verwimp (79), Turnhout
• Bernard Lüken (82)
• Antonius (Antoon) Derksen (81), Nijmegen
• Christiaan Herman Nijmeijer (90), Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Annie Bell Bridges (87), Jasper Co, Texas
• Elisabeth Henriette (bep) van Dijk (61), Amsterdam
• Cora Idella Dunaway (85), Palo Pinto Co., TX
• (66)
• dirk van leeuwen (86), hoogezand
• Catharina Lambregts (78), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1982 » Alexei Mikhnov, Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player
• 1982 » Chris Duhon, American basketball player
• 1982 » Christopher Katongo, Zambian footballer
• 1982 » Ian Crocker, American swimmer
• 1982 » Josh Kroeger, American baseball player
• 1982 » Lien Huyghebaert, Belgian sprinter
• 1982 » Pepe Reina, Spanish footballer
• 1983 » Deniz Aydoğdu, German-Turkish footballer
• 1983 » Larry Fitzgerald, American football player
• 1983 » Milan Biševac, Serbian footballer

• 1978 » John Wrathall, Rhodesian accountant and politician, 2nd President of Rhodesia (b. 1913)
• 1979 » Sally Rand, American actress and dancer (b. 1904)
• 1979 » Tiger Smith, English cricketer and coach (b. 1886)
• 1984 » Audrey Wagner, American baseball player, obstetrician, and gynecologist (b. 1927)
• 1985 » Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1986 » Elizabeth Coatsworth, American author and poet (b. 1893)
• 1986 » Henry Moore, English sculptor and illustrator (b. 1898)
• 1986 » Urho Kekkonen, Finnish journalist, lawyer, and politician, 8th President of Finland (b. 1900)
• 1990 » Nathaniel Clifton, American basketball player and coach (b. 1922)
• 1991 » Cliff Lumsdon, Canadian swimmer and coach (b. 1931)

1. Jan
2. Mark
3. Michael
4. Johannes
5. Pieter
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 12 » One hundred women protest in Lahore, Pakistan against military dictator Zia-ul-Haq's proposed Law of Evidence. The women were tear-gassed, baton-charged and thrown into lock-up. The women were successful in repealing the law.
• February 22 » The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
• April 18 » A suicide bomber in Lebanon destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people.
• May 6 » The Hitler Diaries are revealed as a hoax after being examined by new experts.
• July 11 » A TAME airline Boeing 737-200 crashes near Cuenca, Ecuador, killing all 119 passengers and crew on board.
• December 5 » Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina.

The temperature on August 31, 1983 was between 10.9 °C and 28.1 °C and averaged 19.7 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.