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• Tirsa Augustina Steenvoorden, Den Helder († 2006)
• Gerlinde Rianne Schouten, Uddel (Apeldoorn) († 2002)
• Anette Kuipers
• Dauriard van Noord, Amsterdam

• Adrianus Dekker (71), Alkmaar (Noord-Holland)
• Albert William MURFET (98), Devonport, Tasmania, Australia
• Alice Céline Renée Léon Ghislaine MARCHAND (64), Jette, Bruxelles, Belgique
• Anna Jacoba Hoedemaker (82), Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andrew Janssen Saathoff (84), Princeton, Bureau Co., IL
• Antonius van den Boom (76), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Christianus Wilhelmus Ludovicus Johannes Cornelis van Brunschot (70), Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland
• Ben N Gottlieb (93), Kent, Portage, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Jacoba Hoedemaker (82)
• Antonius Klerkx (80), Eindhoven

• 1980 » Nicolas Macrozonaris, Canadian sprinter
• 1980 » Roland Benschneider, German footballer
• 1980 » Seiko Yamamoto, Japanese wrestler
• 1981 » Alex Holmes, American football player
• 1981 » Christina Obergföll, German athlete
• 1981 » Jang Hyun-kyu, South Korean footballer († 2012)
• 1983 » Jahri Evans, American football player
• 1983 » Theo Bos, Dutch cyclist
• 1984 » Lawrence Quaye, Ghanaian-Qatari footballer
• 1984 » Lee Camp, English footballer

• 1976 » Gina Bachauer, Greek pianist and composer (b. 1913)
• 1977 » Chunseong, Korean monk, philosopher and writer (b. 1891)
• 1977 » Sebastian Cabot, English actor (b. 1918)
• 1978 » Jomo Kenyatta, Kenyan journalist and politician, 1st President of Kenya (b. 1894)
• 1979 » James T. Farrell, American novelist, short-story writer, and poet (b. 1904)
• 1980 » James Smith McDonnell, American pilot, engineer, and businessman, founded McDonnell Aircraft (b. 1899)
• 1981 » Vicente Manansala, Filipino painter (b. 1910)
• 1985 » Charles Gibson (historian), Historian of Mexico and its Indians, President of the American Historical Association (b. 1920)
• 1986 » Celâl Bayar, Turkish lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Turkey (b. 1883)
• 1987 » Joseph P. Lash, American author and journalist (b. 1909)

• 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 26 » Fifty-seven people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.
• June 8 » Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: Fifty-six British servicemen are killed by an Argentine air attack on two landing ships, RFASir Galahad and RFASir Tristram.
• July 8 » A failed assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein results in the Dujail Massacre over the next several months.
• September 18 » The Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon comes to an end.
• September 20 » Football players begin a 57-day strike during the 1982 NFL season.
• October 5 » Tylenol products are recalled after bottles in Chicago laced with cyanide cause seven deaths.

The temperature on August 22, 1982 was between 13.7 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (10%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.