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• Jeroen van Hamont, Tilburg, Nederland († 1982)
• Malou Funke* († 1990)
• Alinda Beekelaar, Tiendeveen, Beilen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aldert Corporaal, Groningen
• Berthilde Rijken, Geldrop († 2002)

• Alien Visser (3)
• Anna Catharina van der Velden (63), Nieuw-Ginneken
• Albert Sterken (70), Lelystad, Flevoland, Nederland
• Bonaventura Hubertus Eijsbouts (64), Helmond,Noord-Brabant,Nederland
• Bindert Johannes (Ben) Duits (90), amsterdam, Nederland
• Dirk Heeg (69), Dunnville, Ontario, Canada
• Amadeu Chechi (89)
• Cornelia Johanna Zanoni (83)
• Antonius Marius Brouwers (74), Tilburg
• Cornelis Hermanus Post (93), Pijnacker

• 1980 » Siiri Nordin, Finnish singer-songwriter
• 1980 » Tom Boonen, Belgian cyclist
• 1981 » Elena Dementieva, Russian tennis player
• 1981 » Keyshia Cole, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1981 » Radoslav Židek, Slovak snowboarder
• 1982 » Paulini, Fijian-Australian singer
• 1982 » Sachiko Yamada, Japanese swimmer
• 1983 » Bruno Senna, Brazilian race car driver
• 1983 » Stephy Tang, Hong Kong singer
• 1984 » Izale McLeod, English footballer

• 1976 » Carlo Gambino, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1902)
• 1978 » W. Eugene Smith, American photojournalist (b. 1918)
• 1980 » Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek footballer and volleyball player (b. 1896)
• 1980 » Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1900)
• 1981 » Philip Fotheringham-Parker, English race car driver (b. 1907)
• 1983 » Pat O'Brien, American actor (b. 1899)
• 1987 » Donald Wandrei, American author and poet (b. 1908)
• 1987 » Thomas Sankara, Burkinabe captain and politician, 5th President of Burkina Faso (b. 1949)
• 1988 » Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English pianist, composer, and critic (b. 1892)
• 1989 » Danilo Kiš, Serbian novelist, short story writer, essayist and translator. (b. 1935)

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.
• January 13 » Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 jet, crashes into Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists.
• March 14 » The South African government bombs the headquarters of the African National Congress in London.
• March 22 » NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.
• April 17 » Constitution Act, 1982 Patriation of the Canadian constitution in Ottawa by Proclamation of Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada.
• May 2 » Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMSConqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano.
• September 11 » The international forces that were guaranteeing the safety of Palestinian refugees following Israel's 1982 Invasion of Lebanon leave Beirut. Five days later, several thousand refugees are massacred in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps by Phalange forces.

The temperature on October 15, 1982 was between 8.4 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 5.5 mm of rain during 5.4 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (14%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.