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• Lily Korst, Australie († 2011)
• Marvin de Groot, Eindhoven († 1982)

• adriana van't HOF (71)
• Boukje VAN DER VELDE (43), Snits Friesland Netherlands
• Antonius Cornelis van de Sande (78), Boxtel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna van den Berg (58), Heerlen
• Antoon Baptist (53), Geel
• Aaltje Berghuis (100)
• Aalt Mulder (79), Maartensdijk
• Berend Arends PETTER (80)
• Albertus Blanken (80)
• Anna van de Berg (58), Heerlen,, Limburg, Nederland

• 1980 » Brad Fitzpatrick, American programmer, created LiveJournal
• 1980 » Jo Swinson, Scottish politician
• 1981 » Loukas Vyntra, Czech-Greek footballer
• 1981 » Mia Hansen-Løve, French director and screenwriter
• 1982 » Kevin Everett, American football player
• 1982 » Laura del Rio, Spanish footballer
• 1982 » Rodrigo Palacio, Argentinian footballer
• 1982 » Tomáš Kopecký, Slovak ice hockey player
• 1983 » Anja Hammerseng-Edin, Norwegian handball player
• 1984 » Carlos Tevez, Argentinian footballer

• 1972 » Marianne Moore, American poet, author, critic, and translator (b. 1887)
• 1976 » Rudy Pompilli, American saxophonist (Bill Haley & His Comets) (b. 1926)
• 1977 » Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist and academic (b. 1894)
• 1981 » Ella T. Grasso, American politician, 83rd Governor of Connecticut (b. 1919)
• 1982 » Neil Aggett, Kenyan-South African physician and union leader (b. 1953)
• 1983 » Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, American chemist and academic (b. 1925)
• 1987 » William Collier, Jr., American actor and producer (b. 1902)
• 1989 » Joe Raposo, American pianist and composer (b. 1937)
• 1991 » Dean Jagger, American actor (b. 1903)
• 1992 » Miguel Rolando Covian, Argentinian-Brazilian physiologist and academic (b. 1913)

• 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.
• January 28 » US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces from captivity by the Red Brigades.
• June 27 » Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.
• July 18 » Two hundred sixty-eight Guatemalan campesinos ("peasants" or "country people") are slain in the Plan de Sánchez massacre.
• July 19 » In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University of Beirut, is kidnapped.
• October 5 » Tylenol products are recalled after bottles in Chicago laced with cyanide cause seven deaths.

The temperature on February 5, 1982 was between 0.8 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.