About the day » Wednesday December 7, 1983Calender converter

• Joseph James Hall († 2002)
• Jeremy De Buyst († 2020)

• Anthonius Hendrikus Maria DERKX (66), Panniers Ariege Frankrijk
• Aleida Maria Steggink (88), Enschede,, Overijssel, Nederland
• Cornelia Catharina van den Burg (92)
• Clementina De Bruyn (81), Bonheiden
• Clementia De Bruyn (81), Bonheiden, 2820, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Bastiaan Oskam (86), Rotterdam
• Annie Anes Stapersma (56), IJlst, Gem. IJlst, Friesland, Nederland
• Boele Tienstra (58), Leeuwarden
• Antonius H.M. Derkx (66), Montaut (Frankrijk)
• Clementius Thijs (88), Sint-Truiden, België

• 1979 » Sara Bareilles, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress
• 1980 » John Terry, English footballer
• 1983 » Mike Mucitelli, American mixed martial artist
• 1984 » Aaron Gray, American basketball player
• 1984 » Luca Rigoni, Italian footballer
• 1984 » Milan Michálek, Czech ice hockey player
• 1984 » Robert Kubica, Polish race car driver
• 1985 » Jon Moxley, American wrestler
• 1986 » Billy Horschel, American golfer
• 1986 » Nita Strauss, American guitarist

• 1977 » Georges Grignard, French race car driver (b. 1905)
• 1977 » Paul Gibb, English cricketer and umpire (b. 1913)
• 1977 » Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-American engineer (b. 1906)
• 1978 » Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist and paleontologist (b. 1886)
• 1979 » Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, English-American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1900)
• 1984 » LeeRoy Yarbrough, American race car driver (b. 1938)
• 1985 » J. R. Eyerman, American photographer and journalist (b. 1906)
• 1985 » Potter Stewart, American soldier and jurist (b. 1915)
• 1985 » Robert Graves, English poet, novelist, critic (b. 1895)
• 1989 » Haystacks Calhoun, American wrestler and actor (b. 1934)

1. Jan
2. Mark
3. Michael
4. Johannes
5. Pieter
6. Jeroen
7. Robert
8. Bart
9. David
10. Peter
11. Paul
12. Thomas
13. Maarten
14. Dennis
15. Martijn
16. Daniel

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 20 » First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier.
• 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 11 » A TAME airline Boeing 737-200 crashes near Cuenca, Ecuador, killing all 119 passengers and crew on board.
• July 21 » The world's lowest temperature in an inhabited location is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at −89.2°C (−128.6°F).
• August 18 » Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 21 people and causing over US$1 billion in damage (1983 dollars).
• December 27 » Pope John Paul II visits Mehmet Ali Ağca in Rebibbia's prison and personally forgives him for the 1981 attack on him in St. Peter's Square.

The temperature on December 7, 1983 was between -0.3 °C and 5.6 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.