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• Rens Kaaij, Oostgraftdijk († 1984)
• Remco Woutherus Johannes van Rooij, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Christine Schilder
• Sandra Hofman, Ommen († 2016)

• Antonia Groeneveld (68), Amsterdam
• Carel William Eduard Crone (74), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Ludovica Roovers (82), Zoersel, Antwerpen, België
• Albert Peter Carel Johans Speerstra (32), Valkenburg, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Catharina Stokhof (85), Amsterdam
• Alberto Angulo Senior (76), Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
• Anna Aaltje Snijders (84), Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Nederland
• Berend Prins (75), Beerta, Groningen, Netherlands
• Albert Dewey Defrees (85), Baker City-Oregon (USA)
• Albertus Lambertus Bernard (73)

• 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)

• 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.
• June 4 » Gordon Kahl, who killed two US Marshals in Medina, North Dakota on February 13, is killed in a shootout in Smithville, Arkansas, along with a local sheriff, after a four-month manhunt.
• June 18 » Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
• August 21 » Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr. is assassinated at the Manila International Airport (now renamed Ninoy Aquino International Airport in his honor).
• September 26 » Australia II wins the America's Cup, ending the New York Yacht Club's 132-year domination of the race.
• December 10 » Democracy is restored in Argentina with the inauguration of President Raúl Alfonsín.

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.