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• Christa Irene Hoppe, Midland († 1983)
• Laprina Dykshorn († 1992)
• Joram van Doremalen
• Frans Frederik Pereboom († 1984)

• Arjen Veninga (81), Aarlanderveen
• Annamaria Mast (65), Pietermaritzburg, Zuid Afrika
• Antonius (Toon) VAN KEULEN (76), Almere-Haven
• Jan Eigenbrood (94), Delair New Yersey
• Anna Maria Batteké (73), Amsterdam
• Avery Fisher Etheridge (75), Whiteville, Columbus County, North Carolina
• Catherine Suzanne Berg (62), Puyallup, Pierce, Washington, Verenigde Staten
• Aaltje Gerrits Kok (90), Zaandam
• Ceriel Arnest Windeij (67)
• Anna Maria op 't Ende- (84), Ter Apel, Nederland

• 1982 » Damien Sandow, American wrestler
• 1982 » Jesse Lumsden, Canadian bobsledder and football player
• 1982 » Kaspar Kokk, Estonian skier
• 1983 » Mark Reynolds, American baseball player
• 1983 » Ryan Carter, American ice hockey player
• 1984 » Chris Maurer, American singer and bass player
• 1984 » Matt Joyce, American baseball player
• 1984 » Ryan Lochte, American swimmer
• 1984 » Sunil Chhetri, Indian footballer
• 1984 » Yasin Avcı, Turkish footballer

• 1972 » Giannis Papaioannou, Turkish-Greek composer (b. 1913)
• 1973 » Richard Marshall, American general (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Edgar Johan Kuusik, Estonian architect and interior designer (b. 1888)
• 1975 » Andreas Embirikos, Greek poet and photographer (b. 1901)
• 1977 » Alfred Lunt, American actor and director (b. 1892)
• 1977 » Makarios III, Cypriot archbishop and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Cyprus (b. 1913)
• 1979 » Angelos Terzakis, Greek author and playwright (b. 1907)
• 1979 » Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1983 » Carolyn Jones, American actress (b. 1930)
• 1995 » Ida Lupino, English-American actress and director (b. 1918)

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

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.
• April 4 » Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space.
• May 6 » The Hitler Diaries are revealed as a hoax after being examined by new experts.
• July 25 » Black July: Thirty-seven Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
• August 18 » Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 21 people and causing over US$1 billion in damage (1983 dollars).
• October 9 » South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan survives an assassination attempt in Rangoon, Burma (present-day Yangon, Myanmar), but the blast kills 21 and injures 17 others.
• December 19 » The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The temperature on August 3, 1983 was between 7.3 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.