About the day » Friday December 23, 1983Calender converter

• Wim Wouter CASTELEYN, Tielt († 2004)
• Clyde Patrick McNALLY, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia († 2005)

• Edith Mary SINCLAIR (94), Marysville, Snohomish County, Washington, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Janisse (76), Westkapelle, Walcheren, NL
• Baatje Verploeg (84)
• Cornelia Hermina Johanna Schoots (65), Tiel
• Christiaan Johannes Kluiters (79), Zoeterwoude, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Christianus Johannes Kluiters (79), Zoeterwoude, Westeinde, Zuid Holland, Nederland
• Dirk Jacobus Schungel (65)
• Clara Durbin (87)
• Dale Patrick Donnelly (56), Muskegon, Muskegon Co., Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Bertram Nicholas Zwart (50), Bullville (Orange, New York, USA)

• 1981 » Maritza Correia, Puerto Rican-American swimmer
• 1981 » Yuriorkis Gamboa, Cuban boxer
• 1982 » Brad Nelson, American baseball player
• 1982 » Thomas Rohregger, Austrian cyclist
• 1983 » Hanley Ramírez, Dominican baseball player
• 1983 » Lisa Dobriskey, English runner
• 1983 » Michael Chopra, English footballer
• 1984 » Dudu Aharon, Israeli singer-songwriter
• 1984 » Josh Satin, American baseball player
• 1984 » Sebastian Werle, German rugby player

• 1972 » Andrei Tupolev, Russian engineer, designed the Tupolev Tu-95 and Tupolev Tu-104 (b. 1888)
• 1973 » Charles Atlas, Italian-American bodybuilder and model (b. 1892)
• 1973 » Irna Phillips, American screenwriter, created Guiding Light and As the World Turns (b. 1901)
• 1979 » Peggy Guggenheim, American-Italian art collector (b. 1898)
• 1982 » Jack Webb, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1920)
• 1983 » Colin Middleton, Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1910)
• 1984 » Joan Lindsay, Australian author and playwright (b. 1896)
• 1992 » Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (b. 1934)
• 1994 » Sebastian Shaw, English actor, director, and playwright (b. 1905)
• 1995 » Patric Knowles, English actor (b. 1911)

• 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.
• March 8 » Cold War: While addressing a convention of Evangelicals, U.S. President Ronald Reagan labels the Soviet Union an "evil empire".
• April 4 » Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space.
• April 22 » The German magazine Stern claims the "Hitler Diaries" had been found in wreckage in East Germany; the diaries are subsequently revealed to be forgeries.
• June 18 » Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
• December 31 » Benjamin Ward is appointed New York City Police Department's first ever African American police commissioner.

The temperature on December 23, 1983 was between 5.9 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.