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• Jessica de Vries, Worthington Nobels County, Minnesota († 1982)
• Leonie Marije van Tuijl, Alphen aan de Rijn
• Henri Hendrik Albert Schoffelen

• Anna Francisca Joanna Maria van Amelsfort (73), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bob Kunst (60), Den Haag
• Charles Henri Joseph HENRY (86), Crisnée,4367,Liège,Wallonie,BELGIQUE
• Anneke Hendrika de Haas (82), Kerkwijk, Gelderland, The Netherlands
• Ada Geertruida Sprenger (82), Laren, Pays-Bas
• Agatha Goudsmits (94), Bladel
• Anna Hendrika Sengers (93), Druten, Gelderland, Nederland
• Bastiaan Hubertus van den Heuvel (85), Delft
• Arend de Wrede (80), Joure
• Anna Maria Petronella Nuijten (76), Tilburg, NB Netherlands

• 1981 » Doug Walker, American actor, comedian, film critic, internet personality, and filmmaker
• 1981 » Sarah Harding, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
• 1982 » Hollie Smith, New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1982 » Katie Feenstra-Mattera, American basketball player
• 1982 » Yusuf Pathan, Indian cricketer
• 1983 » Ioannis Bourousis, Greek basketball player
• 1983 » Ryan Bradley, American figure skater
• 1983 » Ryan Braun, American baseball player
• 1983 » Trevor Crowe, American baseball player
• 1983 » Viva Bianca, Australian actress, producer, and screenwriter

• 1973 » Mirra Alfassa, French-Indian spiritual leader (b. 1878)
• 1976 » Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, Bangladeshi scholar and politician (b. 1880)
• 1979 » John Glascock, English singer and bass player (b. 1951)
• 1982 » Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer and conductor (b. 1905)
• 1986 » Georges Besse, French businessman (b. 1927)
• 1987 » Paul Derringer, American baseball player (b. 1906)
• 1988 » Sheilah Graham Westbrook, English-American actress, author, and journalist (b. 1904)
• 1989 » Costabile Farace, American criminal (b. 1960)
• 1990 » Robert Hofstadter, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
• 1992 » Audre Lorde, American poet, essayist, memoirist, and activist (b. 1934)

• 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.
• May 25 » Falklands War: HMS Coventry is sunk by Argentine Air Force A-4 Skyhawks.
• June 13 » Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.
• June 21 » John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
• December 7 » In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr., becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.
• December 13 » The 6.0 M_s  North Yemen earthquake shakes southwestern Yemen with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing 2,800, and injuring 1,500.

The temperature on November 17, 1982 was between 3.7 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 7.0 mm of rain during 7.2 hours. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (15%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.