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• AncAngela Beckhäuser, Santa Catarina, Brasil († 1983)
• Bastiaan Carel op den Brouw, Capelle aan den IJssel

• Albertus Albertsz de Jong (89), unbekannt
• Barbera Catherina Frankena (61), Leeuwarden, FR, Nederland
• Andreas Johannes Franciscus van den Hoek (74), Eindhoven
• Alida Wilhelmina Catharina van Donk (79), Amsterdam
• Antonia de Been (94), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alida Wilhelmina Catharina van Donkelaar (79), Amsterdam
• Anna Baron (71), Emmen
• Antonius Rudolphus Jongen (77)
• Anna Baron (71), Emmen, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Adolphine Caroline barones Bentinck (71), Assen

• 1980 » Christina Ricci, American actress and producer
• 1980 » Gucci Mane, American rapper
• 1980 » Juan Carlos Ferrero, Spanish tennis player
• 1980 » Sarah Lancaster, American actress
• 1981 » Wade McKinnon, Australian rugby league player
• 1982 » Anthony Tuitavake, New Zealand rugby player
• 1982 » Jonas Hiller, Swiss ice hockey player
• 1982 » Louis Tsatoumas, Greek long jumper
• 1983 » Carlton Brewster, American football player and coach
• 1984 » Brad Keselowski, American race car driver

• 1975 » Carl Lutz, Swiss vice-consul to Hungary during WWII, credited with saving over 62,000 Jews (b. 1895)
• 1976 » Sal Mineo, American actor (b. 1939)
• 1977 » Herman Dooyeweerd, Dutch philosopher and scholar (b. 1894)
• 1979 » Jean Renoir, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1894)
• 1980 » Muriel Rukeyser, American poet and activist (b. 1913)
• 1982 » Victor Jory, Canadian-American actor (b. 1902)
• 1983 » Eubie Blake, American pianist and composer (b. 1887)
• 1984 » Anna Anderson, Polish-American woman, who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (b. 1896)
• 1984 » Julio Cortázar, Belgian-Argentinian author and poet (b. 1914)
• 1985 » Nicholas Colasanto, American actor and director (b. 1924)

1. Jan
2. Mark
3. Jeroen
4. Peter
5. Johannes
6. Michael
7. David
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. Wendy
14. Chantal
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.
• January 1 » Peruvian Javier Pérez de Cuéllar becomes the first Latin American to hold the title of Secretary-General of the United Nations.
• March 14 » The South African government bombs the headquarters of the African National Congress in London.
• March 23 » Guatemala's government, headed by Fernando Romeo Lucas García is overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efraín Ríos Montt.
• May 29 » Falklands War: British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.
• July 19 » In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University of Beirut, is kidnapped.
• October 1 » Epcot opens at Walt Disney World in Florida.

The temperature on February 12, 1982 was between -0.6 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.