About the day » Sunday January 16, 1983Calender converter

• Nathalie Journée, Nieuwerkerken, België († 1984)
• Joris Hermus, Dongen, Nederland († 2011)

• Amelie Gutschow (46), Asuncion, Paraguay
• Burie Strop (82), Greenville, Butler, Alabama, United States
• Anna Potman (89), Velsen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Meininger (78), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Cornelis Hoedelmans (72), Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Clarence George Pfadenhauer (74), Burlington (Iowa), Verenigde Staten
• Barbara Eleonora von Lippe-Biesterfeld (85), Rheingau, Erbach Im Odenwald, Starkenburg, Hessen
• Agnes Marie Bjørnstad (78), Trondheim, Mellomveien 8
• Arnoldus Cornelus (II) Louwrenssen (78)
• Catharina Krijnsen (84)

• 1981 » Bobby Zamora, English footballer, striker
• 1981 » Jamie Lundmark, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1981 » Paul Rofe, Australian cricketer
• 1982 » Preston, English singer-songwriter
• 1982 » Tuncay, Turkish footballer
• 1983 » Andriy Rusol, Ukrainian footballer
• 1983 » Emanuel Pogatetz, Austrian footballer
• 1984 » Miroslav Radović, Serbian footballer
• 1984 » Stephan Lichtsteiner, Swiss footballer
• 1985 » Joe Flacco, American football player

• 1972 » Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor, created Alvin and the Chipmunks (b. 1919)
• 1972 » Teller Ammons, American soldier and politician, 28th Governor of Colorado (b. 1895)
• 1973 » Edgar Sampson, American musician and composer (b. 1907)
• 1975 » Israel Abramofsky, Russian-American painter (b. 1888)
• 1978 » A. V. Kulasingham, Sri Lankan journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1890)
• 1981 » Bernard Lee, English actor (b. 1908)
• 1983 » Virginia Mauret, American musician and dancer
• 1986 » Herbert W. Armstrong, American evangelist, author, and publisher (b. 1892)
• 1987 » Bertram Wainer, Australian physician and activist (b. 1928)
• 1988 » Andrija Artuković, Croatian politician, war criminal, and Porajmos perpetrator, 1st Minister of Interior of the Independent State of Croatia (b. 1899)

1. Jan
2. Mark
3. Michael
4. Pieter
5. Johannes
6. Jeroen
7. Robert
8. Bart
9. David
10. Peter
11. Paul
12. Thomas
13. Martijn
14. Dennis
15. Maarten
16. Christopher

1. Maria
2. Linda
3. Jessica
4. Kim
5. Nicole
6. Sarah
7. Marieke
8. Johanna
9. Jennifer
10. Anna
11. Wendy
12. Laura
13. Elisabeth
14. Saskia
15. Ilona
16. Ellen

• 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 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 23 » Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.
• May 17 » Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
• May 17 » The U.S. Department of Energy declassifies documents showing world's largest mercury pollution event in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (ultimately found to be 4.2million pounds [1.9kt]), in response to the Appalachian Observer's Freedom of Information Act request.
• May 26 » The 7.8 M_w  Sea of Japan earthquake shakes northern Honshu with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami is generated that leaves about 100 people dead.
• June 5 » More than 100 people are killed when the Russian river cruise ship Aleksandr Suvorov collides with a girder of the Ulyanovsk Railway Bridge. The collision caused a freight train to derail, further damaging the vessel yet the ship remained afloat and was eventually restored and returned to service.
• August 18 » Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 21 people and causing over US$1 billion in damage (1983 dollars).

The temperature on January 16, 1983 was between 7.3 °C and 9.5 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (11%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.