About the day » Saturday July 2, 1983Calender converter

• Dirk Dubbelaar, IJmuiden, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2007)
• Cameron Lee CIANTAR († 2002)
• Hermina Anthonia Maria Vos, Huizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1983)
• Mariska Platje († 2005)

• Albertus, Antonius Mulder (85), Eindhoven
• Albertus Antonius Mulder (85), Eindhoven
• Berend Bouw (69)
• Berend Barenkamp (74), Amsterdam
• Albert Waninge (89), Emmen
• Adrianus Antonius Anssems (94), Zaandam, Zaanstad, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Coral Thelma Bilston (71), Karrinyup, Western Australia, Australia
• Celina Margaretha Verlinden
• Cornelis Johannes IJsselstijn (72)
• Arie Langhout (55), Hazerswoude, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1980 » Nyjer Morgan, American baseball player
• 1981 » Carlos Rogers, American football player
• 1981 » Nathan Ellington, English footballer
• 1983 » Kyle Hogg, English cricketer
• 1983 » Michelle Branch, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1984 » Johnny Weir, American figure skater
• 1984 » Thomas Kortegaard, Danish footballer
• 1985 » Ashley Tisdale, American actress, singer, and producer
• 1985 » Chad Henne, American football player
• 1985 » Rhett Bomar, American football player

• 1973 » Betty Grable, American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1916)
• 1973 » George McBride, American baseball player and manager (b. 1880)
• 1975 » James Robertson Justice, English actor (b. 1907)
• 1977 » Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born novelist and critic (b. 1899)
• 1978 » Aris Alexandrou, Greek author and poet (b. 1922)
• 1986 » Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player and manager (b. 1917)
• 1988 » Vibert Douglas, Canadian astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1894)
• 1989 » Andrei Gromyko, Soviet economist and politician, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1909)
• 1990 » Snooky Lanson, American singer (b. 1914)
• 1991 » Lee Remick, American actress (b. 1935)

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. Martijn
14. Dennis
15. Maarten
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 8 » The Melbourne dust storm hits Australia's second largest city. The result of the worst drought on record and a day of severe weather conditions, a 320 metres (1,050ft) deep dust cloud envelops the city, turning day to night.
• March 6 » The first United States Football League games are played.
• April 18 » A suicide bomber in Lebanon destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people.
• August 21 » Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr. is assassinated at the Manila International Airport (now renamed Ninoy Aquino International Airport in his honor).
• September 26 » Soviet Air Force officer Stanislav Petrov identifies a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike.
• December 5 » Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina.

The temperature on July 2, 1983 was between 9.6 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.