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• Nynke Afke Koopman († 1986)
• Tom Gerritsma, Den Haag († 1983)
• Arné Gustave Boudewijn van Haver, Ermelo, Gelderland, Nederland
• Marlon Alexander Burer, Naarden
• Jeroen Breen, Hellevoetsluis, Neth

• Arthur Louis Wunderlin (83), Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, Verenigde Staten
• Annigje Gommers (77), Assen, Nederland
• Auke Boerema (64), Zuidlaren, Drenthe, Netherlands
• August Anton Bender (73), Frankfurt-Höchst
• Belle Ruth Allen (87)
• Andries Wouter van der Netten van Stigt (76)
• Arnoldus Petrus Romijnders (59), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Annigje GOMMERS (77), Assen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Anette Verbeek (20), Eindhoven
• Annie van Mierlo (47), Tilburg, Nederland

• 1982 » Cameron Knowles, New Zealand footballer
• 1982 » Jeff Larish, American baseball player
• 1982 » Mauricio Victorino, Uruguayan footballer
• 1982 » Terrell Suggs, American football player
• 1984 » Jane Zhang, Chinese singer-songwriter
• 1984 » Martha MacIsaac, Canadian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1984 » Sergio Hellings, Dutch footballer
• 1984 » Zeb Taia, Australian-New Zealand rugby league player
• 1985 » Nesta Carter, Jamaican sprinter
• 1985 » Yang Cheng, Chinese footballer

• 1971 » Tamanoumi Masahiro, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 51st Yokozuna (b. 1944)
• 1976 » Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author, screenwriter, and songwriter (b. 1897)
• 1977 » MacKinlay Kantor, American journalist, author, and screenwriter (b. 1904)
• 1983 » R. Fraser Armstrong, Canadian administrator and engineer (b. 1889)
• 1984 » Benno Schotz, Scottish sculptor and engineer (b. 1891)
• 1986 » Norm Cash, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1934)
• 1988 » Bonita Granville, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1989 » M. King Hubbert, American geologist and academic (b. 1904)
• 1991 » Redd Foxx, American actor and comedian (b. 1922)
• 1993 » Andy Stewart, Scottish singer and entertainer (b. 1933)

• 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.
• March 2 » Compact discs and players are released for the first time in the United States and other markets. They had previously been available only in Japan.
• April 18 » A suicide bomber in Lebanon destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people.
• 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.
• June 18 » Mona Mahmudnizhad, together with nine other Bahá'í women, is sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran over her religious beliefs.
• September 26 » Soviet Air Force officer Stanislav Petrov identifies a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike.
• November 26 » Brink's-Mat robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are stolen from the Brink's-Mat vault at Heathrow Airport.

The temperature on October 11, 1983 was between 8.8 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.