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• Kelly Rae Swartout, Royal Oak, Oakland, Michigan, Verenigde Staten († 1993)
• Johannes Martinus Kramer, Zuid-Scharwoude,1722,Langedijk,Noord-Holland,Nederland
• Guythano Sergio Christiaan Stomp († 1999)
• William Slager III

• Derkje Olthuis (75)
• Carel Johannes Wijdeveld (92), Leiden (ZH Nederland
• Cornelia Catharina de Leeuw (76), Bergen op Zoom
• Chrétien Alphonse Marie Stassen (75), Roermond
• Dina Juurlink (75), Apeldoorn
• Catharina Johanna Maas (70), Breda,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelis Petrus Verbocht (50), Nispen, Roosendaal, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Divera de Haan (78), Nibbixwoud, Medemblik, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Constantia Vanspringel (84), Geel-Zammel, Antwerpen, België
• Beulah Isabel Andrews (86), Miami, FL, United States

• 1979 » Rosamund Pike, English actress
• 1980 » Chanda Gunn, American ice hockey player and coach
• 1980 » Marat Safin, Russian tennis player and politician
• 1981 » Alicia Molik, Australian tennis player and sportscaster
• 1981 » Tony Woodcock, New Zealand rugby player
• 1982 » Eva Asderaki, Greek tennis umpire
• 1983 » Carlo Colaiacovo, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1983 » Gavin Floyd, American baseball player
• 1983 » Paulo Colaiacovo, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1984 » Vince Mellars, New Zealand rugby league player

• 1971 » Jacobo Árbenz, Guatemalan captain and politician, President of Guatemala (b. 1913)
• 1972 » Mahalia Jackson, American singer (b. 1911)
• 1973 » William Nolde, American colonel (b. 1929)
• 1974 » Georgios Grivas, Cypriot general (b. 1898)
• 1975 » Bill Walsh, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1913)
• 1983 » Louis de Funès, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1914)
• 1986 » Lilli Palmer, German-American actress (b. 1914)
• 1987 » Norman McLaren, Scottish-Canadian animator and director (b. 1914)
• 1988 » Massa Makan Diabaté, Malian historian, author, and playwright (b. 1938)
• 1989 » Thomas Sopwith, English ice hockey player and pilot (b. 1888)

• 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 Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Saturday, May 29, 1982 to Thursday, November 4, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt III, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
• 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.
• May 29 » Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral.
• June 8 » Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: Fifty-six British servicemen are killed by an Argentine air attack on two landing ships, RFASir Galahad and RFASir Tristram.
• June 13 » Battles of Tumbledown and Wireless Ridge, during the Falklands War.
• July 18 » Two hundred sixty-eight Guatemalan campesinos ("peasants" or "country people") are slain in the Plan de Sánchez massacre.
• September 14 » President-elect of Lebanon Bachir Gemayel is assassinated.
• October 8 » Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.

The temperature on January 27, 1982 was between -0.1 °C and 4.4 °C and averaged 2.5 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 4.4 hours. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (15%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.