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• Remco Woutherus Johannes van Rooij, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Sandra Hofman, Ommen († 2016)
• Rens Kaaij, Oostgraftdijk († 1984)
• Menko Beekelaar, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Maarten Calybute de Beurs, Auckland (Nieuw-Zeeland), Nieuw Zeeland

• Antonia Groeneveld (68), Amsterdam
• Aartje van Gent (73), Spijk, Nederland
• Albertus Lambertus Bernard (73)
• Adolf Bonne (72), Sijsele (B), België
• Alida Dominica Wilhelmina Maria Opdam (59)
• Charlotta Grietje van Duijsen (84), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Leune (73), Zoetermeer, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Hoedelmans (86)
• Althea Mae Bonwell (81), Oelwein, Fayette County, Iowa
• Alida Margaretha Carstens (69), Amsterdam

• 1981 » Danny Coid, English footballer
• 1983 » Andreas Papathanasiou, Cypriot footballer
• 1983 » Fred, Brazilian footballer
• 1983 » Tessa Thompson, American actress
• 1983 » Thiago Alves, Brazilian mixed martial artist
• 1984 » Anthony Le Tallec, French footballer
• 1984 » Ashlee Simpson, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1984 » Bruno Gervais, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1984 » Jessica Parker Kennedy, Canadian actress
• 1984 » Yoon Eun-hye, South Korean singer and actress

• 1979 » Nicos Poulantzas, Greek-French sociologist and philosopher (b. 1936)
• 1980 » Friedrich Karm, Estonian footballer (b. 1907)
• 1981 » Anna Hedvig Büll, Estonian-German missionary (b. 1887)
• 1986 » Vince DiMaggio, American baseball player and manager (b. 1912)
• 1987 » Jean Anouilh, French playwright and screenwriter (b. 1910)
• 1987 » Kalervo Palsa, Finnish painter (b. 1947)
• 1988 » Franz Josef Strauss, Bavarian lieutenant and politician, Minister President of Bavaria (b. 1915)
• 1990 » Eleanor Steber, American soprano and educator (b. 1914)
• 1990 » Stefano Casiraghi, Italian-Monegasque businessman (b. 1960)
• 1993 » Katerina Gogou, Greek actress, poet, and author (b. 1940)

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.
• January 18 » The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family.
• January 27 » The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō, breaks through.
• 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 17 » The U.S. Department of Energy declassifies documents showing world's largest mercury pollution event in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (ultimately found to be 4.2million pounds [1.9kt]), in response to the Appalachian Observer's Freedom of Information Act request.
• September 15 » Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.
• November 2 » U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

The temperature on October 3, 1983 was between 13.4 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 17.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.