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

• Clara V. Waterfield (85)
• Adrian Ottens (78), Henderson, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus Havermans (88), Bergen op Zoom
• Adrianus Matthijssen (64), Roosendaal
• Annemieke Jantine Adriana Hartog (0)
• Calixta Agnes Princess zur Lippe Biesterfeld (87), Schloß Reinhartshausen, Hesse, Nassau, Pru
• Cornelia Josina Maria Ensink (65), Den Haag
• Antonius Marius Brouwers (74), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arend de Gram (62)
• Ananias Stehouwer (71), Alblasserdam

• 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)

• 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 21 » Falklands War: A British amphibious assault during Operation Sutton leads to the Battle of San Carlos.
• June 3 » The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street; he survives but is left paralysed.
• June 10 » Lebanon War: The Syrian Arab Army defeats the Israeli Defense Forces in the Battle of Sultan Yacoub.
• June 21 » John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
• September 1 » The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
• October 20 » During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster.

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.