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• Jennifeer L. Church
• Steven Donald ROOTES († 1983)
• Roy L Braddy, Pesacola, Escampia County, Florida (USA) († 2007)
• Grégoire DECLÈVE († 1983)
• Tamara Thys, Duffel

• Ajoeti A. (73), Sint Odiliënberg
• Adriana Visee (77), Rhenen
• Anton Leonard MacGillavry (78)
• Daniel Christiaan van de Wege (77), sheboygan /Wisconsin/USA
• Cornelis de Geus (82), St-Maarten
• Christine Annie May (85), Cuba, AL
• Arie Ouwerling (72), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Maria Straathof (66)
• Cornelis van ZWEEDEN (73), Borssele, Zeeland, Nederland
• Christiaan Antonius Does (59), Voorhout

• 1982 » Rubén Ramírez, Argentine football striker
• 1983 » Felicity Jones, English actress
• 1983 » Ivan Saenko, Russian footballer
• 1983 » Junichi Miyashita, Japanese swimmer
• 1983 » Michelle Ang, New Zealander actress
• 1983 » Milica Brozovic, Serbian-Russian figure skater
• 1983 » Mitch Talbot, American baseball player
• 1983 » Riki Miura, Japanese actor
• 1983 » Toshihiro Matsushita, Japanese footballer
• 1983 » Vitali Teleš, Estonian footballer

• 1978 » George Clark, American race car driver (b. 1890)
• 1978 » Giovanni Gronchi, Italian educator, soldier, and politician, 3rd President of the Italian Republic (b. 1887)
• 1979 » Eugenio Mendoza, Venezuelan business tycoon (b. 1909)
• 1979 » John Stuart, Scottish-English actor (b. 1898)
• 1979 » S. J. Perelman, American humorist and screenwriter (b. 1904)
• 1981 » Albert Cohen, Greek-Swiss civil servant and author (b. 1895)
• 1981 » Kannadasan Indian author, poet, and songwriter (b. 1927)
• 1981 » Lina Tsaldari, Greek politician (b. 1887)
• 1983 » Raymond Aron, French sociologist, political scientist, and philosopher (b. 1905)
• 1987 » Abdul Malek Ukil, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician (b. 1925)

• 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.
• May 26 » The 7.8 M_w  Sea of Japan earthquake shakes northern Honshu with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami is generated that leaves about 100 people dead.
• June 5 » More than 100 people are killed when the Russian river cruise ship Aleksandr Suvorov collides with a girder of the Ulyanovsk Railway Bridge. The collision caused a freight train to derail, further damaging the vessel yet the ship remained afloat and was eventually restored and returned to service.
• July 15 » An attack at Orly Airport in Paris is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA, leaving eight people dead and 55 injured.
• September 25 » Thirty-eight IRA prisoners, armed with six handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze Prison.
• 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.
• December 17 » Provisional IRA members detonate a car bomb at Harrods Department Store in London. Three police officers and three civilians are killed.

The temperature on October 17, 1983 was between 7.7 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 7.2 mm of rain during 5.4 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.