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• Linda de Mars († 2018)
• François1 DEMANET, Corbais, 1435, Brabant Wallon, Belgique († 1984)

• Bernardus Meijerink (67), Hoorn
• Annetje Boonen (75), Hierden
• Bernard Karel Buurman (69), Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, Frankrijk
• Aart Veerman (75), Huizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Barend Johannes PRETORIUS (86)
• * Helena Johanna van Hulten (79), Drunen
• Augutin Joseph Coopmans (75), Sint-Truiden, België
• Aalt Boonen (86), Hierden
• Berend Pol (83)
• Bernardus Josephus MOSSOU (77), Ammerzoden

• 1980 » Benjamin Watson, American football player
• 1980 » Christina Aguilera, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1980 » Heinz Inniger, Swiss snowboarder
• 1980 » Neil Fingleton, English actor and basketball player, one of the tallest 25 men in the world († 2017)
• 1983 » Andy Fantuz, Canadian football player
• 1984 » Brian Boyle, American ice hockey player
• 1984 » Derrick Tribbett, American bass player and singer
• 1984 » Giuliano Razzoli, Italian skier
• 1984 » Paul Harrison, English footballer
• 1986 » François Hamelin, Canadian speed skater

• 1977 » Louis Untermeyer American poet, anthologist, critic (b. 1885)
• 1977 » Michio Nishizawa, Japanese baseball player and manager (b. 1921)
• 1980 » Alexei Kosygin, Russian soldier and politician, 8th Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1904)
• 1980 » Dobriša Cesarić, Croatian poet and translator (b. 1902)
• 1982 » Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German colonel and pilot (b. 1916)
• 1985 » Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet and author (b. 1916)
• 1987 » Conny Plank, German keyboard player and producer (b. 1940)
• 1988 » Niyazi Berkes, Turkish Cypriot-English sociologist and academic (b. 1908)
• 1990 » Anne Revere, American actress (b. 1903)
• 1990 » Paul Tortelier, French cellist and composer (b. 1914)

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. Dennis
14. Martijn
15. Maarten
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.
• June 13 » Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune.
• July 24 » The Black July anti-Tamil riots begin in Sri Lanka, killing between 400 and 3,000. Black July is generally regarded as the beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
• September 1 » Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace, killing all 269 on board, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald.
• October 9 » South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan survives an assassination attempt in Rangoon, Burma (present-day Yangon, Myanmar), but the blast kills 21 and injures 17 others.
• November 8 » TAAG Angola Airlines Flight 462 crashes after takeoff from Lubango Airport killing all 130 people on board. UNITA claims to have shot down the aircraft, though this is disputed.
• November 27 » Avianca Flight 011: A Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 181.

The temperature on December 18, 1983 was between 2.3 °C and 4.8 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (67%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.