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• Aart De Goede (68), Zwijndrecht
• Aart de Goede (68), Zwijndrecht,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cora Jane Holland (91), Macon County, North Carolina
• Aaltje Langerak (58), Rotterdam
• Antonius Johannes Van Oorschot (81), Leidschendam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Betty Reable Boles (80)
• Arie Groen (75), Alkmaar
• Albertina Johanna van Dissel (90), Renkum, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alice Maria De Backer (77), Roeselare (W-VL) België
• Adrianus Hendrik (Arjaan) Van Nieuwenhuijzen (67), Dinteloord

• 1980 » Jesse Carlson, American baseball player
• 1980 » Matt Cross, American wrestler
• 1981 » Jason Campbell, American football player
• 1981 » Margaret Simpson, Ghanaian heptathlete
• 1981 » Matthew Pavlich, Australian footballer
• 1981 » Ricky Whittle, English actor
• 1982 » Craig Gordon, Scottish footballer
• 1982 » Julio DePaula, Dominican baseball player
• 1982 » Luke Schenscher, Australian basketball player
• 1982 » The Rocket Summer, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

• 1978 » Basil Wolverton, American illustrator (b. 1909)
• 1980 » Marshall McLuhan, Canadian philosopher and theorist (b. 1911)
• 1980 » Raoul Walsh, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1887)
• 1983 » Sevim Burak, Turkish author and playwright (b. 1931)
• 1985 » Ricky Nelson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1940)
• 1987 » Jerry Turner, American journalist (b. 1929)
• 1988 » Nicolas Calas, Greek-American poet and critic (b. 1907)
• 1990 » George Allen, American football player and coach (b. 1918)
• 1990 » Giovanni Michelucci, Italian architect and urban planner, designed the Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station (b. 1891)
• 1990 » Vasily Lazarev, Russian physician, colonel, and astronaut (b. 1928)

• 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 1 » Peruvian Javier Pérez de Cuéllar becomes the first Latin American to hold the title of Secretary-General of the United Nations.
• March 19 » Falklands War: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the United Kingdom.
• June 10 » Lebanon War: The Syrian Arab Army defeats the Israeli Defense Forces in the Battle of Sultan Yacoub.
• July 19 » In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University of Beirut, is kidnapped.
• July 24 » Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299.
• August 11 » A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one passenger and injuring 15 others.

The temperature on December 31, 1982 was between -1.3 and 1.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.