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• Gregory Corremans, Edegem
• Garratdina Monique Idserda, Wasperveen

• Alberta Brouwer (95), Woudenberg
• Cornelis Hendriks Kleinendorst (86), Dordrecht
• Arend van de Wetering, (79), Meppel
• Cornelis Klaver (79), Noordwolde-gem. Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Artie Gladys Cope (83), Hickory, Graves, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia Jacoba Schreuder (83), Zutphen,Gemeente Zutphen,Gelderland,Netherlands
• Adriaan Joost van Dijke (61), Middelburg
• Arend Arends van de Wetering (79), Schiphorst, Meppel
• Cornelis Klaver (79)
• Gerrits (81), Boxmeer

• 1981 » Maria Ferekidi, Greek canoe racer
• 1982 » Christos Karipidis, Greek footballer
• 1982 » Matt Ware, American football player
• 1983 » Aaron Rodgers, American football player
• 1983 » Bibiana Candelas, Mexican volleyball player
• 1983 » Chris Burke, Scottish footballer
• 1983 » Daniela Ruah, Portuguese-American actress
• 1983 » Jaime Durán, Mexican footballer
• 1983 » Jana Kramer, American actress and singer
• 1984 » Péter Máté, Hungarian footballer

• 1980 » Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1905)
• 1980 » Romain Gary, Lithuanian-French author, director, and screenwriter (b. 1914)
• 1981 » Wallace Harrison, American architect, co-founded Harrison & Abramovitz (b. 1895)
• 1982 » Giovanni Ferrari, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1907)
• 1982 » Marty Feldman, English actor and comedian (b. 1933)
• 1983 » Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1904)
• 1985 » Philip Larkin, English poet, author, and librarian (b. 1922)
• 1986 » Desi Arnaz, Cuban-American actor, singer, businessman, and television producer (b. 1917)
• 1986 » John Curtis Gowan, American psychologist and academic (b. 1912)
• 1987 » Luis Federico Leloir, French-Argentinian physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)

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. Johanna
8. Marieke
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.
• 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.
• September 12 » The USSR vetoes a United Nations Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet destruction of Korean Air Lines Flight 007.
• 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.
• October 13 » Ameritech Mobile Communications launches the first US cellular network in Chicago.
• 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.
• 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 December 2, 1983 was between -5.1 °C and 0.1 °C and averaged -2.0 °C. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.