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• Marieke CAMMAERT, Ronse, 9600, Oost-Vlaanderen, Vlaanderen, België

• Antonius Johannes de Haas (76), Den Haag
• Adriaan DUSSEN, van der (71), 's Gravenmoer, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Burley Freeman (72)
• Berber Wouda (76), -
• Anna Margaretha van Wijngaarden (84), Leeuwarden
• Berendina Brouwer (74), Oldemarkt
• Carolina Maria Bedijs (96), Amersfoort
• Anna Margaretha Wijngaarden (84), Leeuwarden
• Carl BOONE (95)
• Bernard Markus (68), den Haag, Zuid Holland, Nederland

• 1981 » Aaron Baddeley, American-Australian golfer
• 1981 » Kyle Korver, American basketball player
• 1981 » Nicky Jam, American-Puerto-Rican singer and songwriter
• 1981 » Servet Çetin, Turkish footballer
• 1982 » Steven Pienaar, South African footballer
• 1983 » Attila Vajda, Hungarian sprint canoeist
• 1983 » James Heath, English golfer
• 1983 » Raul Meireles, Portuguese footballer
• 1984 » Ryan Rottman, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1985 » Tuğba Karademir, Turkish-Canadian figure skater

• 1974 » Louis Kahn, American architect and academic, designed Jatiyo Sangsad Bhaban (b. 1901)
• 1976 » Luchino Visconti, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• 1981 » Paul Dean, American baseball player (b. 1913)
• 1983 » Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1983 » Louisa E. Rhine, American botanist and parapsychologist (b. 1891)
• 1986 » Clarence D. Lester, African-American fighter pilot (b.1923)
• 1990 » Capucine, French model and actress (b. 1928)
• 1992 » Grace Stafford, American actress (b. 1903)
• 1993 » Helen Hayes, American actress (b. 1900)
• 1994 » Mai Zetterling, Swedish-English actress and director (b. 1925)

1. Jan
2. Mark
3. Michael
4. Johannes
5. Pieter
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.
• January 19 » The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced.
• February 8 » The Melbourne dust storm hits Australia's second largest city. The result of the worst drought on record and a day of severe weather conditions, a 320 metres (1,050ft) deep dust cloud envelops the city, turning day to night.
• March 21 » The first cases of the 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic begin; Israelis and Palestinians accuse each other of poison gas, but the cause is later determined mostly to be psychosomatic.
• July 1 » A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashes into the Fouta Djallon mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
• July 15 » An attack at Orly Airport in Paris is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA, leaving eight people dead and 55 injured.
• July 23 » Thirteen Sri Lanka Army soldiers are killed after a deadly ambush by the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

The temperature on March 17, 1983 was between 6.5 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 4.7 mm of rain during 7.1 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.