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• Kristen Slagter
• Greetje Stuyck, Schoten († 1983)
• Edwina Jane TITMUS († 2003)

• Barbera de Snoo (96), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Koster (73), Leiderdorp, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Agnes Smeets (68), Geulle (Meerssen), Limburg, Nederland
• Dirkje van de Burgt (91)
• Dirkje van de Burgt (91)
• Augusta Gustavus Angela de Witte (87), Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, België
• Alexandra Wilhelmina Maria Louise Adelheid Harriet Gerda van Platen-Hallermund (77), Warder, Sleeswijk-Holstein
• Clausina Kort (68), Grand Rapids (Kent County) (Michigan)
• Dirkje Boer (78), Sliedrecht
• Anna Elisabeth van Loenen (71), Leerdam

• 1979 » Luke Harper, American wrestler
• 1980 » Danish Kaneria, Pakistani cricketer
• 1981 » Gareth Williams, Scottish footballer
• 1981 » Krysten Ritter, American actress, musician, and model
• 1982 » Anna Sedokova, Ukrainian singer, actress and television presenter
• 1982 » Antrel Rolle, American football player
• 1982 » Stanislav Šesták, Slovak footballer
• 1983 » Frankie Ballard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1983 » Kelenna Azubuike, American basketball player
• 1984 » Theo James, English actor

• 1976 » Réal Caouette, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1917)
• 1977 » Risto Jarva, Finnish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1934)
• 1980 » Colonel Sanders, American businessman, founded KFC (b. 1890)
• 1980 » Hellmuth Walter, German-American engineer (b. 1900)
• 1982 » Colin Chapman, English engineer and businessman, founded Lotus Cars (b. 1928)
• 1983 » Debs Garms, American baseball player (b. 1907)
• 1984 » Karl Deichgräber, German philologist and academic (b. 1903)
• 1985 » Paul Castellano, American mobster (b. 1915)
• 1985 » Thomas Bilotti, American mobster (b. 1940)
• 1989 » Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1913)

1. Jan
2. Mark
3. Jeroen
4. Peter
5. Johannes
6. David
7. Michael
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. Chantal
14. Wendy
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.
• July 18 » Two hundred sixty-eight Guatemalan campesinos ("peasants" or "country people") are slain in the Plan de Sánchez massacre.
• August 27 » Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altıkat is shot and killed in Ottawa. Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide claim to be avenging the massacre of 1​⁄₂ million Armenians in the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
• August 29 » The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
• September 14 » President-elect of Lebanon Bachir Gemayel is assassinated.
• October 8 » Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.
• November 12 » USSR: Yuri Andropov becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev.

The temperature on December 16, 1982 was between 4.2 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.