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• David Duinkerken
• Willfred Reuvers
• Mirjam Rosalinde Verboom, Rotterdam
• Breanne van der Geisen
• Matthys Visser, Harlingen († 1983)

• Ben Jacobs Stratmeyer (87), Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota
• Antonius Joannes Mols (65), Tilburg, Nederland
• Charles Henry McCreary (60)
• Bernardus van der Worp (73), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland
• Cornelis van Dijk (64)
• Bernardus Panhuis (83), Amsterdam
• Alvin E. Showalter (50), Hopewell, Bedford County, Pennsylvania
• Anna Catharina Antonissen (87), Tilburg
• Aaltje Bekker (82), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aagje de HEER (89), Dordrecht

• 1981 » Ben Rothwell, American mixed-martial artist
• 1981 » Horacio Cervantes, Mexican footballer
• 1981 » Kurumi Enomoto, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1981 » Tsubasa Imai, Japanese singer, actor, and dancer
• 1982 » Marion Rolland, alpine ski racer
• 1982 » Nick Riewoldt, Australian footballer
• 1982 » Rubén Ramírez, Argentine football striker
• 1983 » Felicity Jones, English actress
• 1983 » Michelle Ang, New Zealander actress
• 1983 » Milica Brozovic, Serbian-Russian figure skater

• 1978 » George Clark, American race car driver (b. 1890)
• 1978 » Giovanni Gronchi, Italian educator, soldier, and politician, 3rd President of the Italian Republic (b. 1887)
• 1979 » Eugenio Mendoza, Venezuelan business tycoon (b. 1909)
• 1979 » John Stuart, Scottish-English actor (b. 1898)
• 1979 » S. J. Perelman, American humorist and screenwriter (b. 1904)
• 1981 » Albert Cohen, Greek-Swiss civil servant and author (b. 1895)
• 1981 » Kannadasan Indian author, poet, and songwriter (b. 1927)
• 1981 » Lina Tsaldari, Greek politician (b. 1887)
• 1983 » Raymond Aron, French sociologist, political scientist, and philosopher (b. 1905)
• 1987 » Abdul Malek Ukil, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician (b. 1925)

• 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 28 » US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces from captivity by the Red Brigades.
• March 29 » The Canada Act 1982 receives the Royal Assent from Queen Elizabeth II, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982.
• May 4 » Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMSSheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War.
• June 20 » The Argentine Corbeta Uruguay base on Southern Thule surrenders to Royal Marine commandos in the final action of the Falklands War.
• June 21 » John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
• June 24 » British Airways Flight 9 flies into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four engines.

The temperature on October 17, 1982 was between 9.2 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 3.5 hours. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (35%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.