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• Michelle Patricia McCloskey, Verenigde Statn († 1995)

• Adriana Geertruida van der Henst (58), Den Dolder, Utrecht, Nederland
• Arie KAPPETEIN (64), Zeist
• Aagtje de Jonge (81), Oude Pekela
• Arie Keijzer (71), Blaricum, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Alida Maria van der Valk (67), Wateringen
• Arie Kalkman (73)
• Arie Kappetein (64), Zeist
• Adamina Berendina Gunnink (82)
• Aagtje de Jonge (82), Oude Pekela, Groningen, Nederland
• Benjamin Willem Schot (35), Rotterdam

• 1981 » Patrice Evra, French footballer
• 1982 » Layal Abboud, Lebanese singer
• 1982 » Rafael Pérez, Dominican baseball player
• 1982 » Segundo Castillo, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1982 » Veronica Campbell-Brown, Jamaican sprinter
• 1984 » Beau Scott, Australian rugby league player
• 1984 » Jeff Deslauriers, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1984 » Mr Probz, Dutch singer, songwriter, rapper, actor and record producer
• 1984 » Sérgio Jimenez, Brazilian race car driver
• 1984 » Samantha Noble, Australian actress

• 1978 » Robert Menzies, Australian lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
• 1980 » Gordon Prange, American historian and author (b. 1910)
• 1982 » Gordon Smiley, American race car driver (b. 1946)
• 1984 » Francis Schaeffer, American pastor, theologian, and philosopher (b. 1912)
• 1985 » Jackie Curtis, American actress and writer (b. 1947)
• 1986 » Elio de Angelis, Italian race car driver (b. 1958)
• 1986 » Theodore H. White, American historian, journalist, and author (b. 1915)
• 1989 » Johnny Green, American composer and conductor (b. 1908)
• 1989 » Luc Lacourcière, Canadian ethnographer and author (b. 1910)
• 1991 » Andreas Floer, German mathematician and academic (b. 1956)

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. 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 18 » The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family.
• 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.
• September 17 » Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
• October 22 » Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons.
• December 27 » Pope John Paul II visits Mehmet Ali Ağca in Rebibbia's prison and personally forgives him for the 1981 attack on him in St. Peter's Square.
• December 31 » Benjamin Ward is appointed New York City Police Department's first ever African American police commissioner.

The temperature on May 15, 1983 was between 5.6 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (24%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.