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• Gert Ossel, Emmen,Drenthe,Niederlande († 1983)
• Arjan van Zoggel, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2000)
• Gert Ossel, Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland

• Allen Kent Crabtree (26), Massachusetts
• Clara Ward-Holmes (60), Christchurch
• Bér Quanten (34), Peer, Limburg, België
• Cornelia Camper (98), Baarn(UT)
• Adriaan Maarten Bosch, Dieren, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arnoldus Johannes Holewijn (64), Arnhem GL NL
• Arnoldus Henricus Roestenberg (69), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bert Daanen (57), Nijmegen
• Aaltje Scheer (85)
• Cornelia Camper (98)

• 1981 » Marina Kuptsova, Russian high jumper
• 1982 » Alinne Moraes, Brazilian actress and model
• 1982 » Britta Heidemann, German fencer
• 1982 » Rodney Martin, American sprinter
• 1983 » Drew Hankinson, American wrestler
• 1983 » José Fonte, Portuguese footballer
• 1983 » Ryan Eversley, American race car driver
• 1983 » Viola Kibiwot, Kenyan runner
• 1984 » Basshunter, Swedish singer, record producer and DJ
• 1986 » Dennis Armfield, Australian footballer

• 1974 » Sterling North, American author and critic (b. 1906)
• 1979 » Darryl F. Zanuck, American director and producer (b. 1902)
• 1985 » D. Boon, American singer and musician (b. 1958)
• 1986 » David Penhaligon, Cornish Liberal Politician (b. 1944), MP for Truro (1974-1986)
• 1986 » Mary Burchell, English author and activist (b. 1904)
• 1987 » Luca Prodan, Italian-Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1953)
• 1988 » Chico Mendes, Brazilian trade union leader and activist (b. 1944)
• 1989 » Samuel Beckett, Irish author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 1992 » Frederick William Franz, American religious leader (b. 1893)
• 1992 » Harry Bluestone, English violinist and composer (b. 1907)

• 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 13 » A cinema fire in Turin, Italy, kills 64 people.
• February 14 » United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee collapses. Its president, Jake Butcher, is later convicted of fraud.
• 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.
• July 7 » Cold War: Samantha Smith, a US schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.
• July 22 » Martial law in Poland is officially revoked.
• October 30 » The first democratic elections in Argentina, after seven years of military rule, are held.

The temperature on December 22, 1983 was between 4.9 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 13.3 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.