About the day » Saturday April 17, 1982Calender converter

• Bram Horsthuis
• Heather Knight, Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, United States of America († 2020)

• Annie Maria Johanna Noordanus (80)
• Andre Stiphout (79), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aart (Arend) de Boer (61), Rotterdam
• August Mertens (81), Genk, Limburg, Vlaanderen
• Brewster McCoy (0)
• Arie VERVOORN (18), Poederoijen (Gld.)
• de Koning (62), Oostelbeers
• Vugts (45), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Abraham Doorgeest (92), Amsterdam
• Augusta Ascher (75)

• 1981 » Chris Thompson, English runner
• 1981 » Hanna Pakarinen, Finnish singer-songwriter
• 1981 » Jenny Meadows, English runner
• 1981 » Ryan Raburn, American baseball player
• 1981 » Zhang Yaokun, Chinese footballer
• 1982 » Brad Boyes, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1982 » Chuck Kobasew, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1983 » Andrea Marcato, Italian rugby player
• 1983 » Roberto Jiménez, Peruvian footballer
• 1983 » Stanislav Chistov, Russian ice hockey player

• 1975 » Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher and politician, 2nd President of India (b. 1888)
• 1976 » Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
• 1977 » William Conway, Irish cardinal (b. 1913)
• 1983 » Felix Pappalardi, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (b. 1939)
• 1984 » Claude Provost, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1933)
• 1987 » Cecil Harmsworth King, English publisher (b. 1901)
• 1987 » Dick Shawn, American actor (b. 1923)
• 1988 » Louise Nevelson, Ukrainian-American sculptor and educator (b. 1900)
• 1990 » Ralph Abernathy, American minister and activist (b. 1936)
• 1993 » Turgut Özal, Turkish engineer and politician, 8th president of Turkey (b. 1927)

• 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 29 » The Canada Act 1982 receives the Royal Assent from Queen Elizabeth II, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982.
• May 21 » Falklands War: A British amphibious assault during Operation Sutton leads to the Battle of San Carlos.
• July 18 » Two hundred sixty-eight Guatemalan campesinos ("peasants" or "country people") are slain in the Plan de Sánchez massacre.
• October 14 » U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs.
• November 12 » USSR: Yuri Andropov becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev.
• 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 April 17, 1982 was between 3.6 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 11.2 hours of sunshine (80%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.