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• Patrick George Webb, Worthington, Nobles County, Minnesota († 2015)
• LENNART JAN HEIJKOOP, Malta
• Ericus Lambertus Vervoordeldonk, Deurne

• Augustinus Gerardus Peys (83), Mol, Antwerpen, België
• Arie van HERK (62), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Bouwstra (88), Lemmer
• Adrianus Wilhelmus van Esch (82), Oisterwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bartholomeus Anthonie van der Perk (68)
• Cornelis Antoon Molleman (77), Driebergen-Rijsenburg
• Aukje Mud (81), -
• Anna Maria Jozephine van den Broek (66), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Cornelis Dirk Schreuders (83), Veenendaal
• Adriana Maria Baddee (89), Noordwijk

• 1980 » Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, Pakistani tennis player
• 1980 » Danny Califf, American soccer player
• 1981 » Aaron Baddeley, American-Australian golfer
• 1981 » Kyle Korver, American basketball player
• 1981 » Nicky Jam, American-Puerto-Rican singer and songwriter
• 1981 » Servet Çetin, Turkish footballer
• 1982 » Steven Pienaar, South African footballer
• 1983 » Attila Vajda, Hungarian sprint canoeist
• 1983 » James Heath, English golfer
• 1983 » Raul Meireles, Portuguese footballer

• 1974 » Louis Kahn, American architect and academic, designed Jatiyo Sangsad Bhaban (b. 1901)
• 1976 » Luchino Visconti, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• 1981 » Paul Dean, American baseball player (b. 1913)
• 1983 » Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1983 » Louisa E. Rhine, American botanist and parapsychologist (b. 1891)
• 1986 » Clarence D. Lester, African-American fighter pilot (b.1923)
• 1990 » Capucine, French model and actress (b. 1928)
• 1992 » Grace Stafford, American actress (b. 1903)
• 1993 » Helen Hayes, American actress (b. 1900)
• 1994 » Mai Zetterling, Swedish-English actress and director (b. 1925)

• 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.
• June 3 » The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street; he survives but is left paralysed.
• July 23 » Outside Santa Clarita, California, actor Vic Morrow and two children are killed when a helicopter crashes onto them while shooting a scene from Twilight Zone: The Movie.
• 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.
• September 20 » Football players begin a 57-day strike during the 1982 NFL season.
• November 3 » The Salang Tunnel fire in Afghanistan by kills 150–2000 people.

The temperature on March 17, 1982 was between 2.2 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 4.0 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.