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• frank verhaeg, helden-beringe
• Lindsey Nicole Jacobsma, Rock Valley, Sioux County, Iowa († 2012)

• dirk de vries (74)
• Cornelis Hendrik Verstegen (71), Sevenum,, Limburg, Nederland
• Antonie Pieter den Boer (87), Breda
• Dimphena Maria Veeke (46), Breda,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anthonie Bastiaan Bergshoeff (78), Woerden
• Antonie Pieter den Boer (87), Breda,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arend Bos (85), Zwolle (Ov )
• Cornelis Deelstra (68)
• David Van Tornhout (0)
• Arie Allart (87), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1980 » Katee Sackhoff, American actress
• 1980 » Manuel Ortega, Austrian singer
• 1980 » Mariko Seyama, Japanese announcer, photographer, and model
• 1981 » Frédérick Bousquet, French swimmer
• 1981 » Ofer Shechter, Israeli model, actor, and screenwriter
• 1982 » Brett White, Australian rugby league player
• 1982 » Gennady Golovkin, Kazakhstani boxer
• 1983 » Tatyana Petrova Arkhipova, Russian runner
• 1984 » Ezra Koenig, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1984 » Michelle Donelan, British politician

• 1973 » Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1881)
• 1974 » James Charles McGuigan, Canadian cardinal (b. 1894)
• 1979 » Breece D'J Pancake, American short story writer (b. 1952)
• 1981 » Omar Bradley, American general (b. 1893)
• 1983 » Isamu Kosugi, Japanese actor and director (b. 1904)
• 1984 » Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1894)
• 1985 » John Frederick Coots, American pianist and composer (b. 1897)
• 1990 » Ryan White, American activist, inspired the Ryan White Care Act (b. 1971)
• 1991 » Per Ohlin, Swedish musician (b. 1969)
• 1992 » Daniel Bovet, Swiss-Italian pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)

1. Jan
2. Mark
3. Jeroen
4. Peter
5. Johannes
6. Michael
7. David
8. Dennis
9. Robert
10. Bart
11. Hendrik
12. Willem
13. Patrick
14. Erik
15. Thomas
16. Paul

1. Maria
2. Linda
3. Kim
4. Johanna
5. Jessica
6. Kelly
7. Sarah
8. Esther
9. Marieke
10. Marjolein
11. Elisabeth
12. Ellen
13. Wendy
14. Chantal
15. Jennifer
16. Anna

• 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 10 » Lebanon War: The Syrian Arab Army defeats the Israeli Defense Forces in the Battle of Sultan Yacoub.
• August 27 » Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altıkat is shot and killed in Ottawa. Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide claim to be avenging the massacre of 1​⁄₂ million Armenians in the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
• October 1 » Epcot opens at Walt Disney World in Florida.
• November 1 » Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of its factory in Marysville, Ohio; a Honda Accord is the first car produced there.
• November 3 » The Salang Tunnel fire in Afghanistan by kills 150–2000 people.
• December 6 » The Troubles: The Irish National Liberation Army bombs a pub frequented by British soldiers in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland, killing eleven soldiers and six civilians.

The temperature on April 8, 1982 was between 1.7 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain during 5.2 hours. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.