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• Rene Booij, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Pedro Luiz Maria Jose Miguel Rafael Gabriel Gonzaga Orléans e Bragança, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil († 2009)
• Peter Lodewijk Maria José Michael Raphael Gabriël Gonzaga van Orléans-Bragança Prins van Brazilië, Rio de Janeiro, Brazilië († 2009)
• Pierre d'Orléans et Bragance, Rio-de-Janeiro,, Brésil († 2009)
• Pedro Luis Maria José Miguel Gabriel Rafael Gonzaga van Orléans-Bragança, Rio de Janeiro († 2009)
• Mason E. Daniels, McConnellsburg, Fulton County, Pennsylvania († 2006)
• Mieke Daems, Lommel (B)

• Clarence Joseph BRADLEY (69), Erie (USA)
• Alidor Defauw (90), Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Dirk Gijsbertsen (80)
• Diepke de Groot (54), Almelo
• Aagje Willemina Harts (99), Utrecht
• Bertha Camilla Maria Andriessen (80), Tremelo
• Albert Boverhof (73), Olst, Overijssel, Nederland
• Cornelis Franciscus Spooren (65), Duizel
• Albertus van Graafeiland (87), Nijmegen
• Cornelia Catharina (Rinie) van Tongeren (49), Heemstede, Nederland

• 1981 » Amerie, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1981 » Angus Macdonald, New Zealand rugby player
• 1981 » Dan Klecko, American football player
• 1981 » João Paulo Daniel, Brazilian footballer
• 1982 » Dean Whitehead, English footballer
• 1982 » Dontrelle Willis, American baseball player
• 1982 » Hans Van Alphen, Belgian decathlete
• 1982 » Paul-Henri Mathieu, French tennis player
• 1984 » Daniel Sepulveda, American football player
• 1984 » Jonathan Zydko, French footballer

• 1973 » Roy Franklin Nichols, American historian and academic (b. 1896)
• 1974 » Princess Patricia of Connaught (b. 1886)
• 1976 » Agatha Christie, English crime novelist, short story writer, and playwright (b. 1890)
• 1977 » Henri-Georges Clouzot, French director and screenwriter (b. 1907)
• 1983 » Nikolai Podgorny, Ukrainian engineer and politician (b. 1903)
• 1988 » Connie Mulder, South African politician (b. 1925)
• 1988 » Piero Taruffi, Italian racing driver and motorcycle racer (b. 1906)
• 1990 » Laurence J. Peter, Canadian-American author and educator (b. 1919)
• 1991 » Robert Jackson, Australian public servant and diplomat (b. 1911)
• 1992 » Kumar Gandharva, a Hindustani classical singer (b. 1924)

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. Maarten
14. Martijn
15. Dennis
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.
• April 12 » Harold Washington is elected as the first black mayor of Chicago.
• 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.
• September 12 » A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros.
• October 4 » Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 miles per hour (1,019.468km/h) at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
• 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.
• December 7 » An Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 collides with an Aviaco DC-9 in dense fog while the two airliners are taxiing down the runway at Madrid–Barajas Airport, killing 93 people.

The temperature on January 12, 1983 was between 4.1 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.