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• Marjolein van den Berg, Oosterhout († 2023)
• Rheodora G.M. van Ginkel
• Sander Petrus Albertus van der Maarel, Honselersdijk

• Adrianus Petrus Johannes Meijer (62), Venray
• Count Michael of Rechberg und Rothenlöwen (20), Freiburg in Breisgau
• Cornelis Fokker (51), Nieuwer-Ter-Aa (Gem Stichtse Vecht), Utrecht, Nederland Nederland
• Schnieders (80), "De Bargeres" Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Catharina Martina Broerse (79), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Egidius Jacobus de Wit (87)
• Effie Pearl WARNER (91), Santa Clara, California, United States Of America
• António Pereira da Rocha (67)
• Anthonie Bakkenes (91), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Eke Kooistra (72), Hantum

• 1981 » Andrea Barzagli, Italian footballer
• 1981 » Björn Dixgård, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1981 » John Maine, American baseball player
• 1981 » Manny Gamburyan, Armenian-American mixed martial artist
• 1981 » Stephen Amell, Canadian actor
• 1981 » Tatyana Dektyareva, Russian hurdler
• 1982 » Adrián González, American baseball player
• 1982 » Buakaw Banchamek, Thai kick-boxer
• 1982 » Christina Cole, English actress
• 1982 » Uğur Yıldırım, Turkish-Dutch footballer

• 1980 » Geoffrey Baker, English Field Marshal and Chief of the General Staff of the British Army (b. 1920)
• 1981 » Uri Zvi Greenberg, Israeli poet and journalist (b. 1896)
• 1982 » Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (b. 1950)
• 1982 » Neil Bogart, American record producer, co-founded Casablanca Records (b. 1943)
• 1983 » John Fante, American author and screenwriter (b. 1909)
• 1984 » Gino Bianco, Italian-Brazilian race car driver (b. 1916)
• 1984 » Lila Bell Wallace, American publisher, co-founded Reader's Digest (b. 1890)
• 1985 » Dolph Sweet, American actor (b. 1920)
• 1985 » Karl Marx, German conductor and composer (b. 1897)
• 1985 » Theodore Sturgeon, American author and critic (b. 1918)

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.
• January 8 » Breakup of the Bell System: AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
• March 19 » Falklands War: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the United Kingdom.
• August 29 » The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
• September 11 » The international forces that were guaranteeing the safety of Palestinian refugees following Israel's 1982 Invasion of Lebanon leave Beirut. Five days later, several thousand refugees are massacred in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps by Phalange forces.
• September 19 » Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons:-) and:-( on the Carnegie Mellon University bulletin board system.
• October 1 » Sony and Phillips launch the compact disc in Japan. On the same day, Sony released the model CDP-101 compact disc player, the first player of its kind.

The temperature on May 8, 1982 was between 2.1 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.