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• Apollonius Bastiaan Lagendijk, Charlois, Rotterdam, Nederland

• Arie Aris van Pel (67), Velsen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Willem Lems (85)
• Autgertje(Aukje) Weerstra (79), Franeker,Gemeente Franekeradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Barend Haagsma (79), Gonsalves Junior, Parana (Brasil)
• Aaltje Gravers (101), Ter Apel, Vlagtwedde, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Lether (81), Ede
• Adriana Jacoba Doorduijn (72), Rotterdam, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia PAASEN (71), Woensdrecht, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Berend Koens (64), Veendam, Groningen, Netherlands
• Arnold Antoon Johan HENDRIKX (71), Heerlen, Limburg, Netherlands

• 1981 » Myriam Montemayor Cruz, Mexican singer
• 1981 » Steve Gohouri, Ivorian footballer († 2015)
• 1983 » Cory Jane, New Zealand rugby player
• 1983 » Jermaine Anderson, Canadian basketball player
• 1983 » Jim Verraros, American singer and actor
• 1984 » Cecily Strong, American actress
• 1984 » Manuel Osborne-Paradis, Canadian skier
• 1984 » Panagiotis Vasilopoulos, Greek basketball player
• 1985 » Jeremy Davis, American bass player and songwriter
• 1985 » Petra Cetkovská, Czech tennis player

• 1975 » Robert Robinson, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
• 1977 » Eivind Groven, Norwegian composer and theorist (b. 1901)
• 1979 » Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-English physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1980 » Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
• 1982 » John Hay Whitney, American financier and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (b. 1904)
• 1985 » William Lyons, English businessman, co-founded Swallow Sidecar Company (b. 1901)
• 1987 » Harriet E. MacGibbon, American actress (b. 1905)
• 1990 » Del Shannon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1934)
• 1990 » Ernest Titterton, British Australian nuclear physicist (b. 1916)
• 1992 » Stanley Armour Dunham, American sergeant (b. 1918)

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.
• January 18 » The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family.
• April 18 » A suicide bomber in Lebanon destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people.
• June 5 » More than 100 people are killed when the Russian river cruise ship Aleksandr Suvorov collides with a girder of the Ulyanovsk Railway Bridge. The collision caused a freight train to derail, further damaging the vessel yet the ship remained afloat and was eventually restored and returned to service.
• July 23 » Thirteen Sri Lanka Army soldiers are killed after a deadly ambush by the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
• September 19 » Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence.
• November 7 » United States Senate bombing: A bomb explodes inside the United States Capitol. No one is injured, but an estimated $250,000 in damage is caused.

The temperature on February 8, 1983 was between -1.3 °C and 1.2 °C and averaged -0.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.