About the day » Friday April 22, 1983Calender converter

• Yvonne Veerman († 2001)
• Prescilla Hutchison, Alkmaar,1800,Noord-Holland,Nederland
• Jessica Zonnebeld, Almelo († 1983)

• Adelaide "Lyda" B Olsen (83), Garden City, Wayne, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Carl Swart (65), Neuss
• Catharina Verdonk (66), Nieuwdorp
• Clarence Edward Tinervin (41), Bloomington, McLean, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Andries Raatjes (29), Veendam, Nederland
• Anna Euphemia Antonia van den Heuvel (67), Budel, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Aagje van Duijn (74), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• (91), Sint Kruis Winkel (B)
• Adelheid Wilhelmine van Sandijk (72), tiel
• "Wietske" Poutsma (69), Oostermeer

• 1982 » Aidas Reklys, Lithuanian figure skater
• 1982 » Cassidy Freeman, American actress and musician
• 1982 » David Purcey, American baseball player
• 1982 » Joel Monaghan, Australian rugby league player
• 1982 » Kaká, Brazilian footballer
• 1983 » Jos Hooiveld, Dutch footballer
• 1983 » Matt Jones, American football player
• 1983 » Remi Ayodele, American football player
• 1983 » Sam W. Heads, English-American entomologist and palaeontologist
• 1983 » Vangelis Mantzios, Greek footballer

• 1978 » Will Geer, American actor (b. 1902)
• 1980 » Fritz Strassmann, German chemist and physicist (b. 1902)
• 1980 » Jane Froman, American actress and singer (b. 1907)
• 1983 » Earl Hines, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1903)
• 1984 » Ansel Adams, American photographer and environmentalist (b. 1902)
• 1985 » Jacques Ferron, Canadian physician and author (b. 1921)
• 1985 » Paul Hugh Emmett, American chemist and academic (b. 1900)
• 1986 » Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian and author (b. 1907)
• 1987 » Erika Nõva, Estonian architect (b. 1905)
• 1988 » Grigori Kuzmin, Russian-Estonian astronomer and academic (b. 1917)

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. Maarten
14. Martijn
15. Dennis
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.
• February 18 » Thirteen people die and one is seriously injured in the Wah Mee massacre in Seattle. It is said to be the largest robbery-motivated mass-murder in U.S. history.
• March 8 » Cold War: While addressing a convention of Evangelicals, U.S. President Ronald Reagan labels the Soviet Union an "evil empire".
• 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.
• May 20 » First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier.
• June 18 » Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
• 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.

The temperature on April 22, 1983 was between 5.6 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.