About the day » Friday July 8, 1983Calender converter

• Irene Hazenberg, Groningen († 2005)
• Jorrit Wilbrink, Veldhoven († 1983)
• Jorrit Wilbrink, Veldhoven († 1983)

• Alide Klevesahl (72), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Dijkshoorn (86), Schipluiden (Westland), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bernardina Maria Cornelia Beks (84), Eindhoven
• Antonius Daniel Luscuere (97), 's Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Andreas Rossel (82)
• Arie Stephanus Modder (78), Velsen-IJmuiden
• Adriana Wilhelmina Petronella Keg (87), Rotterdam, Netherlands
• Driesje Hofman (89), Nunspeet, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aaltje van den Berg (73)
• Elsje te Raaij (52), Arnhem

• 1980 » Eric Chouinard, American-Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 » Robbie Keane, Irish footballer
• 1981 » Anastasia Myskina, Russian tennis player
• 1981 » Wolfram Müller, German runner
• 1982 » Hakim Warrick, American basketball player
• 1982 » Sophia Bush, American actress and director
• 1983 » John Bowker, American baseball player
• 1983 » Rich Peverley, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 » Jaime Garcia, Mexican baseball player
• 1986 » Renata Costa, Brazilian footballer

• 1979 » Michael Wilding, English actor (b. 1912)
• 1979 » Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
• 1979 » Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 1981 » Bill Hallahan, American baseball player (b. 1902)
• 1985 » Jean-Paul Le Chanois, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1909)
• 1985 » Phil Foster, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1913)
• 1986 » Skeeter Webb, American baseball player and manager (b. 1909)
• 1987 » Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet and author (b. 1896)
• 1987 » Lionel Chevrier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 27th Canadian Minister of Justice (b. 1903)
• 1988 » Ray Barbuti, American runner and football player (b. 1905)

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.
• April 7 » During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first Space Shuttle spacewalk.
• June 13 » Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune.
• July 11 » A TAME airline Boeing 737-200 crashes near Cuenca, Ecuador, killing all 119 passengers and crew on board.
• July 15 » An attack at Orly Airport in Paris is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA, leaving eight people dead and 55 injured.
• July 24 » The Black July anti-Tamil riots begin in Sri Lanka, killing between 400 and 3,000. Black July is generally regarded as the beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
• September 25 » Thirty-eight IRA prisoners, armed with six handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze Prison.

The temperature on July 8, 1983 was between 16.6 °C and 28.7 °C and averaged 22.2 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (58%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.