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• Jens Vandepitte, Roeselare († 1992)
• Shannon Lee Mc Laughlin

• Agnes Rosemary Rice (82), Cape Town, South Africa
• Antonie Wouters (92), Dordrecht, Nederland
• Arie Bras (86), Dordrecht
• Augustinus Fredericus Cornelis Uijtdewilligen (68), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje Kiesbrink (80), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Adriana Verwolf (81)
• Amanda Evelyn Lewis (74), Fairfax, Virginia, Verenigde Staten
• Aaltje Kiesbrink (80), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Ada L Forney (81), Carroll County, Arkansas, Verenigde Staten
• Bennie F Courtney (67), Hattiesburg, Forrest, Mississippi, United States of America

• 1981 » Frédérick Bousquet, French swimmer
• 1981 » Ofer Shechter, Israeli model, actor, and screenwriter
• 1982 » Brett White, Australian rugby league player
• 1982 » Gennady Golovkin, Kazakhstani boxer
• 1983 » Tatyana Petrova Arkhipova, Russian runner
• 1984 » Ezra Koenig, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1984 » Michelle Donelan, British politician
• 1984 » Pablo Portillo, Mexican singer and actor
• 1984 » Taran Noah Smith, American actor
• 1985 » Patrick Schliwa, German rugby player

• 1973 » Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1881)
• 1974 » James Charles McGuigan, Canadian cardinal (b. 1894)
• 1979 » Breece D'J Pancake, American short story writer (b. 1952)
• 1981 » Omar Bradley, American general (b. 1893)
• 1983 » Isamu Kosugi, Japanese actor and director (b. 1904)
• 1984 » Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1894)
• 1985 » John Frederick Coots, American pianist and composer (b. 1897)
• 1990 » Ryan White, American activist, inspired the Ryan White Care Act (b. 1971)
• 1991 » Per Ohlin, Swedish musician (b. 1969)
• 1992 » Daniel Bovet, Swiss-Italian pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)

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. Dennis
14. Maarten
15. Martijn
16. Christopher

1. Maria
2. Linda
3. Jessica
4. Kim
5. Nicole
6. Sarah
7. Johanna
8. Marieke
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 » Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.
• February 23 » The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
• June 18 » Mona Mahmudnizhad, together with nine other Bahá'í women, is sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran over her religious beliefs.
• July 21 » The world's lowest temperature in an inhabited location is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at −89.2°C (−128.6°F).
• September 1 » Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace, killing all 269 on board, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald.
• December 5 » Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina.

The temperature on April 8, 1983 was between 1.9 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain during 4.1 hours. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.