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• Johnny Kes († 1998)
• Constance Marie Soizic de Geyer d'Orth († 2017)
• Danilo Costa Pereira, São Luis de Montes Belos, GO, Brazilië
• Sarah Snelton

• Dirkje Bossenbroek (92), Nunspeet
• Ariea Haasbroek (86), Katwijk
• Carolus Ludovicus De Sager (79), Hamme
• Elizabeth Bastiaantje Vermaat (91), Renkum Gld. NL
• Antonius Johannes van Zon (76), Haarsteeg
• Carolina Maria Fliers (91), Koudekerke
• Cornelis Segaar (69), Leiden
• * Jacob Vet (78), Papendrecht
• Antonie Henriette Funk (76), Driedorf, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Hessen, Germany
• Elizabeth Hendrika Roepert (76), Fijnaart en Heijnigen, Moerdijk, Noord Brabant, The Netherlands

• 1979 » Jean-François Gillet, Belgian footballer
• 1981 » Daniele Bonera, Italian footballer
• 1981 » Jake Peavy, American baseball player
• 1981 » Marlies Schild, Austrian skier
• 1981 » Mikael Antonsson, Swedish footballer
• 1984 » Andrew Bailey, American baseball player
• 1984 » Milorad Čavić, Serbian swimmer
• 1984 » Nate Robinson, American basketball player
• 1985 » Jordy Nelson, American football player
• 1986 » Robert Gesink, Dutch cyclist

• 1977 » William Castle, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1914)
• 1978 » József Bozsik, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1925)
• 1981 » Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, English economist and journalist (b. 1914)
• 1982 » Carlo Mauri, Italian mountaineer and explorer (b. 1930)
• 1983 » Jack Dempsey, American boxer and lieutenant (b. 1895)
• 1985 » Gaston Rébuffat, French mountaineer and author (b. 1921)
• 1986 » James Rainwater, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
• 1986 » Jane Frank, American painter and sculptor (b. 1918)
• 1987 » John Abraham, Indian director and screenwriter (b. 1937)
• 1989 » Owen Lattimore, American author and academic (b. 1900)

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. Martijn
14. Dennis
15. Maarten
16. Christopher

1. Maria
2. Linda
3. Jessica
4. Nicole
5. Kim
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.
• February 16 » The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75.
• April 18 » A suicide bomber in Lebanon destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people.
• April 22 » The German magazine Stern claims the "Hitler Diaries" had been found in wreckage in East Germany; the diaries are subsequently revealed to be forgeries.
• May 1 » The Sydney Entertainment Centre is opened.
• September 17 » Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
• October 12 » Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from the Lockheed Corporation, and is sentenced to four years in jail.

The temperature on May 31, 1983 was between 10.8 °C and 22.8 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 12.2 hours of sunshine (75%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.