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• Mirna Margaretha Spijkers († 1982)
• Steven DE BRUYCKER, Dendermonde, 9200, Oost-Vlaanderen, Vlaanderen, België
• Hendrikje Clara Laanstra
• Dennis Burssens
• Michael van der Zee, IJmuiden
• Kristin Skaftnes Nordahl, Skogmo, Overhalla, Norge († 1982)
• Benjamin Leroy Elsworth Murk, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1982)
• Alinda Hermans, Prinsenbeek
• Benjamin Murk († 1982)

• Asenath Smith (85), Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
• Anna van der Kooi (89)
• Aleida Sophia Michels (81), Grieth, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland
• Asenath Conklin (85)
• Albertus Antonius MERTENS (62), Leuven Vlaams Brabant
• Antje Wybenga (70)
• Antje Bartelds Boek (94), ,, Scharnegoutum, Wymbritseradeel, Friesland, Netherlands
• Anna MULLER (79), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Allie (Alice) Mulder (83), Waupun, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
• Antje Minnes Wijbenga (70)

• 1980 » Dominic Moore, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 » Nadia Ali, Libyan-American singer-songwriter
• 1981 » Fikirte Addis, Ethiopian fashion designer
• 1981 » Pablo Ibáñez, Spanish footballer
• 1981 » Travis Bowyer, American baseball player
• 1982 » Damien Sandow, American wrestler
• 1982 » Jesse Lumsden, Canadian bobsledder and football player
• 1982 » Kaspar Kokk, Estonian skier
• 1983 » Mark Reynolds, American baseball player
• 1983 » Ryan Carter, American ice hockey player

• 1969 » Alexander Mair, Australian politician, 26th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1889)
• 1972 » Giannis Papaioannou, Turkish-Greek composer (b. 1913)
• 1973 » Richard Marshall, American general (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Edgar Johan Kuusik, Estonian architect and interior designer (b. 1888)
• 1975 » Andreas Embirikos, Greek poet and photographer (b. 1901)
• 1977 » Alfred Lunt, American actor and director (b. 1892)
• 1977 » Makarios III, Cypriot archbishop and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Cyprus (b. 1913)
• 1979 » Angelos Terzakis, Greek author and playwright (b. 1907)
• 1979 » Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1983 » Carolyn Jones, American actress (b. 1930)

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.
• May 29 » Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral.
• June 20 » The Argentine Corbeta Uruguay base on Southern Thule surrenders to Royal Marine commandos in the final action of the Falklands War.
• 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 1 » Epcot opens at Walt Disney World in Florida.
• October 8 » Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.

The temperature on August 3, 1982 was between 17.7 °C and 31.4 °C and averaged 24.8 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (75%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.