About the day » Thursday January 13, 1983Calender converter

• Albin Johnson (72), Virginia, St Louis, Minnesota, United States of America
• Balbina Cordeiro Gonçalves (78), Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil
• Anne Faber (78)
• Adriana Maria van OSTAAIJEN (83)
• Barbara Ann Lampert (55)
• AGATHE Eleonore Maria Gobertina von Auersperg (66), Cascais bei Lissabon, Portugal
• Aukje Schram (68), Minnertsga
• Dirkje Heijkoop (65), 's-Gravenhage
• Albertus Jocob Louis Hietbrink (91), 's Gravenhage
• Aukje Schram (68), Ljouwert

• 1982 » Constantinos Makrides, Cypriot footballer
• 1982 » Guillermo Coria, Argentinian tennis player
• 1982 » Kamran Akmal, Pakistan cricketer
• 1982 » Ruth Wilson, English actress
• 1983 » Ender Arslan, Turkish basketball player
• 1983 » Mauricio Martín Romero, Argentinian footballer
• 1983 » Sebastian Kneißl, German footballer
• 1984 » Kamghe Gaba, German sprinter
• 1984 » Matteo Cavagna, Italian footballer
• 1984 » Nick Mangold, American football player

• 1978 » Hubert Humphrey, American pharmacist, academic, and politician, 38th Vice President of the United States (b. 1911)
• 1978 » Joe McCarthy, American baseball player and manager (b. 1887)
• 1979 » Donny Hathaway, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (b. 1945)
• 1979 » Marjorie Lawrence, Australian-American soprano (b. 1907)
• 1980 » Andre Kostelanetz, Russian-American conductor (b. 1901)
• 1982 » Marcel Camus, French director and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 1983 » René Bonnet, French race car driver and engineer (b. 1904)
• 1986 » Abdul Fattah Ismail, Yemeni educator and politician, 4th President of South Yemen (b. 1939)
• 1986 » Kevin Longbottom, Australian rugby league player (b. 1940)
• 1988 » Chiang Ching-kuo, Chinese politician, President of the Republic of China (b. 1910)

• 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 12 » One hundred women protest in Lahore, Pakistan against military dictator Zia-ul-Haq's proposed Law of Evidence. The women were tear-gassed, baton-charged and thrown into lock-up. The women were successful in repealing the law.
• February 28 » The final episode of M*A*S*H airs, with almost 106 million viewers. It still holds the record for the highest viewership of a season finale.
• July 19 » The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.
• July 21 » The world's lowest temperature in an inhabited location is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at −89.2°C (−128.6°F).
• September 19 » Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence.
• 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.

The temperature on January 13, 1983 was between 0.6 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was 3.6 mm of rain during 5.8 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.