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• Jelle ter Horst, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Garret Raijmond Willink, USA
• Kornelis SINNEMA, Oldeboorn (Utingeradeel) Friesland Netherlands († 2006)

• Désiré Henri DURENNE (88), Péruwelz, 57064, Tournai, Belgique
• Cornelia MEERBURG (91), Alblasserdam
• Anna Maria Flemming (74), Kenmore, Australië
• Albert Lok (80)
• Alice Maria Marguerite MICHEL (78), Ixelles, 21009, Région Bruxelles-Capitale, Belgique
• Aafien Ganzeveld (74), Woltersum, Groningen, Nederland
• Debora LENDE (89), Langezwaag
• Cornelis van der Zaan (85), Oudewater (85 jr)
• CAMIEL OSTYN (88), Poperinge, 8970, Flandre occidentale, Belgique
• Charles L Comello (62), South Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI

• 1981 » Kentaro Sato, Japanese-American composer and conductor
• 1981 » Rami Malek, American actor
• 1982 » Donnie Nietes, Filipino boxer
• 1983 » Alina Kabaeva, Russian gymnast and politician
• 1983 » Charilaos Pappas, Greek footballer
• 1983 » Domhnall Gleeson, Irish actor
• 1983 » Francisco Javier Torres, Mexican footballer
• 1983 » Virginie Razzano, French tennis player
• 1983 » Yujiro Kushida, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist
• 1984 » Clare Bowen, Australian actress and singer

• 1973 » Art Pollard, American race car driver (b. 1927)
• 1973 » Frances Marion, American screenwriter, novelist and journalist (b. 1888)
• 1974 » Wayne Maki, Canadian National Hockey League player (b. 1944)
• 1980 » Lillian Roth, American actress (b. 1910)
• 1981 » Benjamin Sheares, Singaporean professor and politician, 2nd President of Singapore (b. 1907)
• 1985 » Jean Dubuffet, French painter and sculptor (b. 1901)
• 1986 » Elisabeth Bergner, German actress (b. 1897)
• 1992 » Nikos Gatsos, Greek poet and songwriter (b. 1911)
• 1992 » Robert Reed, American actor (b. 1932)
• 1993 » Zeno Colò, Italian Olympic alpine skier (b.1920)

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

1. Maria
2. Linda
3. Jessica
4. Kim
5. Nicole
6. Sarah
7. Johanna
8. Marieke
9. Jennifer
10. Anna
11. Laura
12. Wendy
13. Elisabeth
14. Ilona
15. Saskia
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 18 » The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family.
• June 4 » Gordon Kahl, who killed two US Marshals in Medina, North Dakota on February 13, is killed in a shootout in Smithville, Arkansas, along with a local sheriff, after a four-month manhunt.
• September 15 » Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.
• September 23 » Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations.
• October 21 » The metre is defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
• December 31 » Benjamin Ward is appointed New York City Police Department's first ever African American police commissioner.

The temperature on May 12, 1983 was between 5.1 °C and 13.5 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 5.1 mm of rain during 2.8 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (20%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.