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• Gerard Frans Weijer, Groningen
• Curt Jeffrey Essenburg
• Kirstin Kouseband

• Adolf Paulusz Stafleu (67), Horn NÖ
• Adriana (Sjaan) HEERINGS (77), Hillegom (NL/ZH) Sassenheim (NL/ZH)
• Adriana Heerings (77), Hillegom
• Benjamin van der Meer (74)
• Aagje Schaak (79), Wormer
• Alida Johanna Adriana van de Meer (84)
• Antoon Henri Marie Hubert Receveur (81), Vught,Gemeente Vught,North Brabant,Netherlands
• Albertus Hendrikus Uenk (84), Vorden
• Anna de Haan (88), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Anna Alida Sleeswijk (78), Den Haag

• 1981 » Hayden Christensen, Canadian actor and producer
• 1981 » James Hibberd, English cricketer
• 1981 » Martin Havlát, Czech ice hockey player
• 1981 » Ryuta Hara, Japanese footballer
• 1982 » Filip Jícha, Czech handball player
• 1982 » Ignacio Serricchio, Argentinian-American actor
• 1982 » Joseph Hagerty, American gymnast
• 1982 » Rocco Sabato, Italian footballer
• 1982 » Samuel C. Morrison, Jr., Liberian-American journalist, producer, and screenwriter
• 1982 » Sitiveni Sivivatu, New Zealand rugby player

• 1967 » Konrad Adenauer, German politician, 1st Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
• 1971 » Luigi Piotti, Italian race car driver (b. 1913)
• 1975 » Percy Lavon Julian, American chemist and academic (b. 1899)
• 1987 » Hugh Brannum, American vocalist, arranger, and composer (b. 1910)
• 1989 » Daphne du Maurier, English novelist and playwright (b. 1907)
• 1991 » Stanley Hawes, English-Australian director and producer (b. 1905)
• 1992 » Frankie Howerd, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 1993 » David Koresh, American religious leader (b. 1959)
• 1993 » George S. Mickelson, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 28th Governor of South Dakota (b. 1941)
• 1998 » Octavio Paz, Mexican poet, philosopher, and academic Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)

• 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.
• April 2 » Falklands War: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.
• 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.
• September 14 » President-elect of Lebanon Bachir Gemayel is assassinated.
• November 30 » Michael Jackson's sixth solo studio album, Thriller, is released worldwide, ultimately to become the best-selling record album in history.
• December 2 » At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
• December 3 » A soil sample is taken from Times Beach, Missouri, that will be found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin.

The temperature on April 19, 1982 was between 0.4 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 12.5 hours of sunshine (89%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north.