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• Cornelia (Cor) van Bladel (78), Eindhoven
• Cornelis Schreuders (75), Nieuw-Vennep
• Antje Veltman (87), -
• Aart van Zanten (26), Dordrecht
• Adriana Francina KOEN (56), Harrismith
• Arnoldus Hendrikus BERENDS (71), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anneke Teuntje Boon (85), Vlijmen
• Annechien Talens (80)
• Aart van Zanten (26), Dordrecht
• Carolus Benedictus MARIEN (82), Oostende

• 1981 » Nikolai Nikolaeff, Australian actor
• 1981 » Pablo Canavosio, Argentinian-Italian rugby player
• 1982 » Aksel Lund Svindal, Norwegian skier
• 1982 » Kenneth Darby, American football player
• 1982 » Noel Hunt, Irish footballer
• 1983 » Alexander Wang, American fashion designer
• 1983 » Yu Takahashi, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1984 » Ahmed Barusso, Ghanaian footballer
• 1984 » Alex Schwazer, Italian race walker
• 1984 » Leonardo Ghiraldini, Italian rugby player

• 1977 » Howard Hawks, American director and screenwriter (b. 1896)
• 1980 » Tony Smith, American sculptor and educator (b. 1912)
• 1981 » Amber Reeves, New Zealand-English author and scholar (b. 1887)
• 1981 » Savitri, Indian actress, playback singer, dancer, director and producer (b. 1936)
• 1981 » Suat Hayri Ürgüplü, Turkish politician, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1903)
• 1986 » Elsa Lanchester, English-American actress (b. 1902)
• 1987 » Dorothy Bliss, American invertebrate zoologist, curator at the American Museum of Natural History (b. 1916)
• 1988 » Glenn McCarthy, American businessman, founded the Shamrock Hotel (b. 1907)
• 1988 » Pablo Sorozábal, German-Spanish composer and conductor (b. 1897)
• 1989 » Doug Harvey, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1924)

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. 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.
• February 12 » One hundred women protest in Lahore, Pakistan against military dictator Zia-ul-Haq's proposed Law of Evidence. The women were tear-gassed, baton-charged and thrown into lock-up. The women were successful in repealing the law.
• March 1 » First collection of twelve Swatch models was introduced in Zürich, Switzerland.
• March 11 » Pakistan successfully conducts a cold test of a nuclear weapon.
• 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.
• December 4 » US Navy aircraft from USS John F. Kennedy and USS Independence attack Syrian Missile sites in Lebanon in response to an F-14 being fired on by an SA-7. One A-6 Intruder and A-7 Corsair are shot down. 1 American pilot was killed, one was rescued and one is captured.
• December 19 » The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The temperature on December 26, 1983 was between 2.7 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.