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• Angela Louter, Wageningen (Gelderland)
• Wesleij van Breugel, Rotterdam

• Anna Hubertina IJssermans (88), Roermond,, Limburg, Nederland
• Arthur Thomas Macon (73), Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida, United States of America
• Bunah Vista Holland (90), Cleveland County, North Carolina
• Celine Mertens (85), Westmalle, Malle, Antwerpen, België
• Adriana Goudzwaard (52), Bergen op Zoom
• Bertha CASTELEIN (64), Menen
• Andrew Leroy Morris (78), Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, Verenigde Staten
• Celine Mertens (85), Westmalle
• Alexis Helena Edmond DEGRUYTER (70), Oostende
• Anna Hoff (74), Rossum

• 1981 » Christofer Heimeroth, German footballer
• 1981 » Dean Cox, Australian footballer
• 1981 » Jamie Jones-Buchanan, English rugby player
• 1981 » Pia Haraldsen, Norwegian journalist and author
• 1981 » Stephen Hunt, Irish footballer
• 1982 » Basem Fathi, Jordanian footballer
• 1982 » Montserrat Lombard, English actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1983 » Bobby Carpenter, American football player
• 1983 » Craig Clarke, New Zealand rugby player
• 1983 » Julien Faubert, French footballer

• 1973 » Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer and educator (b. 1882)
• 1973 » Walter Ulbricht, German soldier and politician (b. 1893)
• 1974 » Ildebrando Antoniutti, Italian cardinal (b. 1898)
• 1977 » Francis Gary Powers, American captain and pilot (b. 1929)
• 1980 » Patrick Depailler, French race car driver (b. 1944)
• 1980 » Strother Martin, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1981 » Paddy Chayefsky, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1923)
• 1982 » T. Thirunavukarasu, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (b. 1933)
• 1989 » John Ogdon, English pianist and composer (b. 1937)
• 1990 » Norbert Elias, German-Dutch sociologist, author, and academic (b. 1897)

1. Jan
2. Mark
3. Jeroen
4. Peter
5. Johannes
6. David
7. Michael
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. Chantal
14. Wendy
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.
• 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.
• April 26 » Fifty-seven people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.
• May 25 » Falklands War: HMS Coventry is sunk by Argentine Air Force A-4 Skyhawks.
• July 9 » Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, killing all 145 people on board and eight others on the ground.
• October 8 » Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.
• November 12 » USSR: Yuri Andropov becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev.

The temperature on August 1, 1982 was between 17.8 °C and 25.6 °C and averaged 21.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.