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• Mareike Oestermann († 2018)
• Przemyslaw Palczak, Warschau, Warszawa, Poland
• Ynze van der Linde († 1996)
• Marjolijn Marie Anne Graauwmans, Nijmegen

• Barend van den Brink (78), Deventer
• Ad van Venrooij (55)
• Anna Bruin (75), Alkmaar
• Aalt Pieper (50)
• Alexander Vervekken (76), Poederlee,, Antwerpen, België
• Barend van den Brink (78), Deventer
• Bernard Morton Caplan (70), Miami, Miami-dade, Florida, Verenigde Staten
• Elisabeth Dorothea (Els) Furnée (76), Naarden, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Camille Nijkerk (86), Amsterdam
• Anna Bruin (75), Alkmaar

• 1981 » Freddy Guzmán, Dominican baseball player
• 1981 » Jason Richardson, American basketball player
• 1981 » Owen Hargreaves, English footballer
• 1982 » Fredrik Strømstad, Norwegian footballer
• 1982 » Ruchi Sanghvi, Indian computer engineer
• 1983 » Geovany Soto, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
• 1983 » Mari Yaguchi, Japanese singer and actress
• 1984 » Malek Jaziri, Tunisian tennis player
• 1985 » Marina Inoue, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1985 » Tanel Sokk, Estonian basketball player

• 1973 » Amílcar Cabral, Guinea Bissauan-Cape Verdian engineer and politician (b. 1924)
• 1973 » Lorenz Böhler, Austrian physician and surgeon (b. 1885)
• 1977 » Dimitrios Kiousopoulos, Greek jurist and politician, 151st Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1892)
• 1980 » William Roberts, English soldier and painter (b. 1895)
• 1983 » Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (b. 1933)
• 1984 » Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (b. 1904)
• 1988 » Dora Stratou, Greek dancer and choreographer (b. 1903)
• 1988 » Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Pakistani activist and politician (b. 1890)
• 1989 » Alamgir Kabir, Bangladeshi director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1938)
• 1990 » Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (b. 1907)

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.
• February 23 » The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
• March 1 » First collection of twelve Swatch models was introduced in Zürich, Switzerland.
• April 12 » Harold Washington is elected as the first black mayor of Chicago.
• April 22 » The German magazine Stern claims the "Hitler Diaries" had been found in wreckage in East Germany; the diaries are subsequently revealed to be forgeries.
• 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.

The temperature on January 20, 1983 was between -0.3 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.