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• Bertus Zomer († 1983)
• John Vanthienen, Hasselt, België († 2002)

• Antonetta Johanna Gerarda van den Dungen (77), Eindhoven
• Auke de Vries (78), Leeuwarden
• Catharina Maria ter Woort (79), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Angenieta Everdina van der Struif (86), ,, Delft, Nederland
• conrardus johannes (coen) thiesen (58), venlo (ziekenhuis)
• Cornelia Dalenberg (92), De Cocksdorp Texel, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Conrardus Johannes Thiesen (58), Beringe
• Adriaan de Pender (71), Gorinchem
• Adrianus van Antwerpen (82), Oss
• * Karel Herman Sinnema (81), Rotterdam

• 1982 » John Alvbåge, Swedish footballer
• 1982 » Josh Anderson, American baseball player
• 1982 » Julia Melim, Brazilian actress
• 1983 » Alexander Perezhogin, Russian ice hockey player
• 1983 » C. B. Dollaway, American mixed martial artist
• 1983 » Héctor Faubel, Spanish motorcycle racer
• 1983 » Kyle Brown, American soccer player
• 1983 » Mathieu Roy, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1984 » Mokomichi Hayami, Japanese model and actor
• 1984 » Ryan Eggold, American actor and composer

• 1969 » János Kodolányi, Hungarian author (b. 1899)
• 1976 » Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer (b. 1894)
• 1979 » Dick Foran, American actor and singer (b. 1910)
• 1979 » Walter Gerlach, German physicist and academic (b. 1889)
• 1980 » Yahya Khan, Pakistani general and politician, 3rd President of Pakistan (b. 1917)
• 1982 » Anderson Bigode Herzer, Brazilian author and poet (b. 1962)
• 1985 » Nate Barragar, American football player and sergeant (b. 1906)
• 1987 » Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, Greek lawyer and politician, 163rd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1893)
• 1991 » Lưu Trọng Lư, Vietnamese poet and playwright (b. 1912)
• 1993 » Euronymous, Norwegian singer, guitarist, and producer (b. 1968)

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. Dennis
14. Maarten
15. Martijn
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.
• February 16 » The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75.
• March 11 » Pakistan successfully conducts a cold test of a nuclear weapon.
• May 20 » Church Street bombing: A car bomb planted by Umkhonto we Sizwe explodes on Church Street in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, killing 19 people and injuring 217 others.
• June 4 » Gordon Kahl, who killed two US Marshals in Medina, North Dakota on February 13, is killed in a shootout in Smithville, Arkansas, along with a local sheriff, after a four-month manhunt.
• July 16 » Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.
• July 21 » The world's lowest temperature in an inhabited location is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at −89.2°C (−128.6°F).

The temperature on August 10, 1983 was between 15.0 °C and 27.0 °C and averaged 19.6 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.