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• Sonja van Bunnik, Utrecht
• ter steege, enterbroek wierden

• Anna Trudy Anneke (40), Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Nederland
• Edgard João Forster (83)
• Dirk Hendricus Nelemaat (74), Voorburg
• Bastiaan Marinus Hagendijk (89)
• Antonie UDINK (77), Deventer, Gemeente Deventer, Overijssel, Nederland
• Douwe Drijver (92)
• Augusto Bayardo Rodrigues Pereira Teixeira Mendes (62)
• Cornelis Daniël Maria Akkermans (83), Roosendaal
• Carolus Boiij (73), Putte,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Christina Smits (80), 's Hertogenbosch

• 1980 » Dwight Freeney, American football player
• 1980 » Ma Lin, Chinese table tennis player
• 1980 » Mike Miller, American basketball player
• 1981 » Beth Ditto, American singer
• 1983 » Kotoōshū Katsunori, Bulgarian sumo wrestler
• 1983 » Mika Nakashima, Japanese singer and actress
• 1983 » Ryan Whitney, American ice hockey player
• 1984 » Chris Richardson, American singer-songwriter
• 1985 » Haylie Duff, American actress and singer
• 1986 » Kyle Chipchura, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1972 » John Grierson, Scottish director and producer (b. 1898)
• 1972 » Lee Morgan, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1938)
• 1973 » Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (b. 1892)
• 1977 » Anthony Crosland, English captain and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (b. 1918)
• 1977 » Mike González, Cuban baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1890)
• 1980 » Bon Scott, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
• 1983 » Alice White, American actress (b. 1904)
• 1988 » André Frédéric Cournand, French-American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
• 1992 » Tojo Yamamoto, American wrestler and manager (b. 1927)
• 1994 » Derek Jarman, English director and set designer (b. 1942)

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 16 » The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75.
• 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.
• July 22 » Martial law in Poland is officially revoked.
• September 17 » Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
• October 12 » Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from the Lockheed Corporation, and is sentenced to four years in jail.
• 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.

The temperature on February 19, 1983 was between -1.7 °C and 2.7 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.