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• Bastiaan Hans ("Bas") Stroink, Rotterdam

• cornelis van berkel (65), voorburg
• Annee Alexander Reijntjes (71), Leeuwarden
• Antje Nicolai (87), IJmuiden, Nederland
• Arida (Alie) VAN DER WENDE (56), Dordrecht
• Adrianus Frisart (81), Loosdrecht (gem. Wijdemeren)
• Cornelia Mathijssen (86), Zundert, Noord-Brabant,Netherlands
• Clyde Sandlin (72)
• Adrianus van der Maeden (65)
• Cornelis Hendrikus ARINK (77), Delft
• Alford Teague (59), Brady, McCulloch, Texas, Verenigde Staten

• 1980 » Burney Lamar, American race car driver
• 1980 » Jasmin Wöhr, German tennis player
• 1980 » Paul Menard, American race car driver
• 1981 » Cameron Winklevoss, American rower and businessman, co-founded ConnectU
• 1981 » Jarrod Lyle, Australian golfer († 2018)
• 1981 » Ross Thomas, American actor
• 1981 » Tyler Winklevoss, American rower and businessman, co-founded ConnectU
• 1982 » Jason Eaton, New Zealand rugby player
• 1982 » Omar Sachedina, Canadian television journalist, correspondent, and news anchor
• 1983 » Scott McDonald, Australian footballer

• 1971 » George Jackson, American activist and author, co-founded the Black Guerrilla Family (b. 1941)
• 1974 » Buford Pusser, American police officer (b. 1937)
• 1974 » Kirpal Singh, Indian spiritual master (b. 1894)
• 1978 » Charles Eames, American architect, co-designed the Eames House (b. 1907)
• 1979 » Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1910)
• 1981 » Kaka Kalelkar, Indian Hindi Writer(B.1885)
• 1983 » Benigno Aquino, Jr., Filipino journalist and politician (b. 1932)
• 1988 » Ray Eames, American architect, co-designed the Eames House (b. 1912)
• 1988 » Teodoro de Villa Diaz, Filipino guitarist and songwriter (b. 1963)
• 1989 » Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1945)

• 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 19 » Falklands War: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the United Kingdom.
• March 30 » Space Shuttle program: STS-3 mission is completed with the landing of Columbia at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
• June 20 » The Argentine Corbeta Uruguay base on Southern Thule surrenders to Royal Marine commandos in the final action of the Falklands War.
• July 8 » A failed assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein results in the Dujail Massacre over the next several months.
• July 20 » Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings: The Provisional IRA detonates two bombs in Hyde Park and Regent's Park in central London, killing eight soldiers, wounding forty-seven people, and leading to the deaths of seven horses.
• August 21 » Lebanese Civil War: The first troops of a multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the Palestine Liberation Organization's withdrawal from Lebanon.

The temperature on August 21, 1982 was between 14.0 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (17%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.