About the day » Sunday March 13, 1983Calender converter

• Terrell Cole Blackburn, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah († 2007)
• Mark Brondijk, Delfzijl
• Wilhelmina Frederika Wiechert († 2003)

• Anna Maria Cornelia Voorn (74), Leiden
• Arie Frederik Verspuij (52), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Constantinus Cornelius Vermeiren (72), Turnhout (B)
• Anna Maria Meersman (71), Temse
• Brechtje Alsema (85)
• Christopher Michael Hunt (0)
• Catharina Francisca Johanna de Kort (75), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Celestina Jacoba Antonia Maria Manders (65), Vught, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Abram van Timmerman (70)
• Andreas Franciscus Siardus Rovers (83), Raamsdonk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1979 » Cédric Van Branteghem, Belgian sprinter
• 1979 » Johan Santana, Venezuelan-American baseball player
• 1980 » Caron Butler, American basketball player
• 1982 » Nicole Ohlde, American basketball player
• 1983 » Kaitlin Sandeno, American swimmer
• 1984 » Geeta Basra, Indian actress
• 1985 » Alcides Araújo Alves, Brazilian footballer
• 1985 » Emile Hirsch, American actor
• 1986 » Neil Wagner, South African-New Zealand cricketer
• 1987 » Marco Andretti, American race car driver

• 1971 » Rockwell Kent, American painter and illustrator (b. 1882)
• 1972 » Tony Ray-Jones, English photographer (b. 1941)
• 1975 » Ivo Andrić, Yugoslav novelist, poet, and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1976 » Ole Haugsrud, American sports executive (b. 1900)
• 1983 » Paul Citroen, German-Dutch illustrator and educator (b. 1896)
• 1990 » Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian-American psychologist and author (b. 1903)
• 1995 » Odette Hallowes, French nurse and spy (b. 1912)
• 1996 » Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish director and screenwriter (b. 1941)
• 1998 » Hans von Ohain, German-American physicist and engineer (b. 1911)
• 1998 » Judge Dread, English singer-songwriter (b. 1945)

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. Dennis
14. Maarten
15. Martijn
16. Christopher

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.
• February 23 » The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
• June 18 » Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
• July 24 » George Brett batting for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the "Pine Tar Incident".
• September 15 » Israeli premier Menachem Begin resigns.
• September 23 » Gulf Air Flight 771 is destroyed by a bomb, killing all 117 people on board.
• October 13 » Ameritech Mobile Communications launches the first US cellular network in Chicago.

The temperature on March 13, 1983 was between 0.2 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.