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• Iris Anne Maria Wessels, Zwolle († 1998)
• Jeroen Stam, Tiel
• Ronald Moerland, Roosendaal en Nispen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Richard Dean Jansma, Sibley, Osceola County, Iowa († 2021)
• Saskia Stam, Tiel

• Billy Gray Clodfelter (54), Greensboro, Guilford, North Carolina
• Anna Helena Maria Janssen (80)
• Berry Walker Green (91), Jasper County,MS
• Bartholomeus Leijser (77), Elden
• Antonet Ariëns (24), Alverna,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Berend Jan Offenberg (54), Amsterdam, Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Meijer (88), Wormer
• Alidanus van Willigen (80), Rotterdam
• Annie Tobias (66), Eindhoven, Nederland
• Anna Maria Josephina Dols (86), Geleen, Sittard-Geleen, Limburg, Nederland

• 1979 » Amanda Somerville, American singer-songwriter
• 1979 » Rodrigo Braña, Argentinian footballer
• 1980 » Eric Godard, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 » Laura Prepon, American actress
• 1980 » Murat Boz, Turkish singer-songwriter
• 1981 » Brent Kite, Australian rugby league player
• 1983 » Manucho, Angolan footballer
• 1983 » Sebastián Viera, Uruguayan footballer
• 1984 » Lindsay McCaul, American singer-songwriter
• 1984 » Mathieu Flamini, French footballer

• 1971 » Richard Montague, American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1930)
• 1973 » Lalo Ríos, Mexican actor (b. 1927)
• 1975 » Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher and critic (b. 1895)
• 1976 » Wright Patman, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1893)
• 1981 » Kirill Kondrashin, Russian conductor (b. 1914)
• 1982 » Ida Barney, American astronomer, mathematician, and academic (b. 1886)
• 1983 » Igor Markevitch, Ukrainian conductor and composer (b. 1912)
• 1986 » Jacob K. Javits, American colonel and politician, 58th New York State Attorney General (b. 1904)
• 1988 » Divine, American drag queen and film actor (b. 1945)
• 1991 » Cool Papa Bell, American baseball player (b. 1903)

• 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.
• March 22 » NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.
• April 2 » Falklands War: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.
• May 30 » Cold War: Spain joins NATO.
• June 14 » Falklands War: Argentine forces in the capital Stanley conditionally surrender to British forces.
• June 24 » British Airways Flight 9 flies into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four engines.
• November 14 » Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.

The temperature on March 7, 1982 was between -2.0 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (89%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.