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• Heiko Eduard KNOOIHUIZEN († 1983)
• Eric Schotvanger, Schoorl, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1983)

• Antonie Engelbertus van Hulst (94), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alice Maggi Zweep (87), Ripon,,CA
• Aaron C. Cox [iWki] (85), Pitman Creek, Pulaski County, Kentucky
• "Michel" Charles Marie Joseph de Becdelièvre (53), Les Epesses, Vendée, France
• Adrianus Catharina BOLS (77), Turnhout, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium
• Age Idses Bergsma (95), Jutrijp, Wymbritseradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Arie van de Velden (85), Hilversum
• Age Bergsma (95), Jutrijp,Wymbritseradeel,Friesland,Nederland
• Alois Gerard Huyghe (76)
• Blazena Dvoraková. (68), Praha, Czech Republic

• 1981 » Daisuke Sekimoto, Japanese wrestler
• 1981 » Tom Hiddleston, English actor, producer, and musical performer
• 1982 » Ami Suzuki, Japanese singer-songwriter and actress
• 1982 » Chris Weale, English footballer and manager
• 1982 » Domingo Cisma, Spanish footballer
• 1982 » Jameer Nelson, American basketball player
• 1983 » Mikel Arruabarrena, Spanish footballer
• 1984 » Maurice Ager, American basketball player, singer, and producer
• 1984 » Shōhōzan Yūya, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1985 » David Gallagher, American actor

• 1976 » Percy Faith, Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1908)
• 1977 » Sergey Ilyushin, Russian engineer and businessman, founded the Ilyushin Design Company (b. 1894)
• 1978 » Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist and coach (b. 1893)
• 1979 » Allen Tate, American poet and academic (b. 1899)
• 1980 » Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and author (b. 1900)
• 1981 » Bill Haley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1925)
• 1981 » M. C. Chagla, Indian jurist and politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs (b. 1900)
• 1984 » Yuri Andropov, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1914)
• 1989 » Osamu Tezuka, Japanese illustrator, animator, and producer (b. 1928)
• 1994 » Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1934)

• 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.
• 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.
• June 18 » Mona Mahmudnizhad, together with nine other Bahá'í women, is sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran over her religious beliefs.
• September 12 » A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros.
• September 15 » Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.
• December 31 » Benjamin Ward is appointed New York City Police Department's first ever African American police commissioner.

The temperature on February 9, 1983 was between -2.0 °C and -0.4 °C and averaged -1.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.