About the day » Thursday October 6, 1983Calender converter

• Nils Vogel, Essen, Germany
• Doodgeboren dochter Meulenbroek, Dordrecht († 1983)
• Rianne Henrike Buitenhuis († 1983)

• Adriaan Maljaars (73), Aagtekerke
• Alfons Constantijn Hubert Maria Jonkheer Michiels van Kessenich (85), Roermond, Limb
• Anna Maria Wijnhoven (95)
• "Maria" Alexandrine Léontine Gillès de Pélichy (73), Bruxelles
• Alphonse Constant Hubert Marie Jonkheer Michiels van Kessenich (85), Roermond,, Limburg, Nederland
• Arthur Hendrik Cornelius Weyns (77), Temse
• Alida Floor (81), Wageningen
• Arnold Limpens (72), Sittard,, Limburg, Nederland
• Antonia Wylie Bland [ARbX 3 Bu] "Tonia" (81), Dallas County, Arkansas ac
• Augustijn Laurens Melis (72), Turnhout (België)

• 1981 » José Luis Perlaza, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1981 » Zurab Khizanishvili, Georgian footballer
• 1982 » Fábio Júnior dos Santos, Brazilian footballer
• 1982 » Hideki Mutoh, Japanese race car driver
• 1982 » Levon Aronian, Armenian chess player
• 1982 » Paul Smith, English boxer
• 1982 » William Butler, American musician and composer
• 1983 » Renata Voráčová, Czech tennis player
• 1984 » Joanna Pacitti, American singer-songwriter
• 1984 » Morné Morkel, South African cricketer

• 1976 » Gilbert Ryle, English philosopher and author (b. 1900)
• 1978 » Johnny O'Keefe, Australian singer-songwriter (b. 1935)
• 1979 » Elizabeth Bishop, American poet and short-story writer (b. 1911)
• 1980 » Hattie Jacques, English actress and producer (b. 1922)
• 1980 » Jean Robic, French cyclist (b. 1921)
• 1981 » Anwar Sadat, Egyptian colonel and politician, 3rd President of Egypt, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 1983 » Terence Cooke, American cardinal (b. 1921)
• 1985 » Nelson Riddle, American composer, conductor, and bandleader (b. 1921)
• 1986 » Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1921)
• 1989 » Bette Davis, American actress (b. 1908)

• 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 11 » Pakistan successfully conducts a cold test of a nuclear weapon.
• April 12 » Harold Washington is elected as the first black mayor of Chicago.
• July 15 » An attack at Orly Airport in Paris is launched by Armenian militant organisation ASALA, leaving eight people dead and 55 injured.
• August 18 » Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 21 people and causing over US$1 billion in damage (1983 dollars).
• 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 2 » U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

The temperature on October 6, 1983 was between 12.1 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.