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• Ursula Sibylie Therese Kaptein, Rotterdam († 1982)
• Remco Reuvers, Bosschenhoofd

• Annechien Meints (82), Assen
• Seraphina Maria Martens (86), Axel
• "Léon" Jean Paul Huens (60), Benisa, Espagne
• Adrianus Verheij (82), Vianen, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Adriana Christina Voerman (74), Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Clementina Coigneau (74), Ninove
• Anna Augusta Broad (76), Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America
• Carel David Esche (75), Lourdes,,D√©partement des Hautes-Pyr√©n√©es,Midi-Pyr√©n√©es,Frankrijk
• Arend Vijfschaft (57), Paterswolde,Drenthe,Niederlande
• Aafke Postma (91), Noord Bergum

• 1980 » Anthony Minichiello, Australian rugby league player
• 1980 » Jason Babin, American football player
• 1981 » Andy Lee, Australian comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1982 » Issah Gabriel Ahmed, Ghanaian footballer
• 1982 » Rian Wallace, American football player
• 1983 » Custódio Castro, Portuguese footballer
• 1983 » Pedram Javaheri, Iranian-American meteorologist and journalist
• 1983 » Woo Seung-yeon, South Korean model and actress († 2009)
• 1984 » Dmitri Kruglov, Estonian footballer
• 1984 » Sarah Hagan, American actress

• 1974 » Duke Ellington, American pianist and composer (b. 1899)
• 1976 » Denise Pelletier, Canadian actress (b. 1923)
• 1979 » Ernest Bullock, English organist, composer, and educator (b. 1890)
• 1981 » Herbert Müller, Swiss race car driver (b. 1940)
• 1984 » Vince McMahon Sr., American wrestling promoter and businessman, founded WWE (b. 1914)
• 1988 » Freddie Frith, English motorcycle road racer (b. 1909)
• 1990 » Arthur Villeneuve, Canadian painter (b. 1910)
• 1991 » Gene Clark, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1944)
• 1992 » Hitoshi Ogawa, Japanese race car driver (b. 1956)
• 1995 » Harold Wilson, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)

• 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 25 » Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
• May 29 » Falklands War: British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.
• 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.
• 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 8 » Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.
• 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 May 24, 1982 was between 8.9 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.