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• Jacobus Leeflang († 1987)
• Anthony Graves, Bogotá, Distrito Capltal de Santa Fe de Bogotã, Colombia († 2004)
• Kristy Anna Parker
• Liewe Petrus Henricus Schrover, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Auguste Louis Marie van Waesberghe (73)
• Albertine Anne Elisabeth Remmelts (85), Zuidlaren, DR Netherlands
• Adrianus Theodorus Bouwman (68)
• Alexander Boers (57), 's-Gravenzande, Nederland
• Berend Oelen (81), Hollandscheveld
• Adrianus Johannes Martens (63), Roosendaal
• Alberdine Willems (75)
• Adriana Dina Koppenaal (67)
• Arie Messemaker (60), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Annie Ruth Addison (82), Collier, Florida, Verenigde Staten

• 1980 » Brian Fallon, American singer-songwriter
• 1980 » Michael Hastings, American journalist and author († 2013)
• 1980 » Nick Carter, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1980 » Yasuhito Endō, Japanese footballer
• 1981 » Elijah Wood, American actor and producer
• 1984 » Andre Iguodala, American basketball player
• 1984 » Anne Panter, English field hockey player
• 1984 » Ben Clucas, English race car driver
• 1984 » Stephen Gostkowski, American football player
• 1985 » J. Cole, American singer

• 1971 » Donald Winnicott, English paediatrician and psychoanalyst (b. 1896)
• 1973 » John Banner, Austrian actor (b. 1910)
• 1976 » Marcel Broodthaers, Belgian painter and poet (b. 1924)
• 1978 » Ward Moore, American author (b. 1903)
• 1983 » Billy Fury. English pop star (b. 1940)
• 1983 » Frank Forde, Australian educator and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1890)
• 1986 » Space Shuttle Challenger crew
• 1988 » Klaus Fuchs, German physicist and politician (b. 1911)
• 1989 » Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama (b. 1938)
• 1993 » Helen Sawyer Hogg, Canadian astronomer and academic (b. 1905)

1. Jan
2. Mark
3. Jeroen
4. Peter
5. Johannes
6. Michael
7. David
8. Dennis
9. Robert
10. Bart
11. Hendrik
12. Willem
13. Patrick
14. Erik
15. Thomas
16. Paul

1. Maria
2. Linda
3. Kim
4. Johanna
5. Jessica
6. Kelly
7. Sarah
8. Esther
9. Marieke
10. Marjolein
11. Elisabeth
12. Ellen
13. Wendy
14. Chantal
15. Jennifer
16. Anna

• 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.
• March 5 » Soviet probe Venera 14 lands on Venus.
• May 4 » Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMSSheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War.
• August 11 » A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one passenger and injuring 15 others.
• September 1 » The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
• November 3 » The Salang Tunnel fire in Afghanistan by kills 150–2000 people.
• November 14 » Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.

The temperature on January 28, 1982 was between -0.2 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 3.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.