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• Rodrigo Carlos Burani, Presidente Prudente-SP, Brazil

• Adrianus van der Velden (74), Breda,Noord Brabant,Nederland
• Alexander Jan Kiefmeijer (86), Rotterdam,Rotterdam,Zuid Holland,Nederland
• Christiaan Breuer (69), ,, Laren,, North Holland, Netherlands
• Anne Oosterloo (85)
• Albertina Buarque Marinho Holanda (77), Maceió, Alagoas, Brasil
• Adrianus Bakx (63), Wouw, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Callie Marie Johnson (83)
• Cornelia Clasina van den Bos (76), Delft
• Barend Jacobus van de Lagemaat (73)
• Arendina Landkroon (73)

• 1982 » Adam Pally, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1982 » Chad Cordero, American baseball player
• 1982 » Mantorras, Angolan footballer
• 1982 » Timo Glock, German race car driver
• 1983 » Andy Sonnanstine, American baseball player
• 1983 » Ethan Carter III, American wrestler
• 1983 » Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro, French tennis player
• 1983 » Tomasz Stolpa, Polish footballer
• 1984 » Rajeev Ram, American tennis player
• 1984 » Simone Padoin, Italian footballer

• 1977 » Carlos Pace, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1944)
• 1977 » Marien Ngouabi, Congolese politician, President of the Republic of the Congo (b. 1938)
• 1978 » Leigh Brackett, American author and screenwriter (b. 1915)
• 1978 » Peggy Wood, American actress (b. 1892)
• 1980 » Erich Fromm, German psychologist and philosopher (b. 1900)
• 1982 » Patrick Smith, Irish farmer and politician, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (b. 1901)
• 1983 » Umberto II of Italy (b. 1904)
• 1984 » Charley Lau, American baseball player and coach (b. 1933)
• 1986 » Bernard Malamud, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1914)
• 1988 » Billy Butterfield, American trumpet player and cornet player (b. 1917)

• 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.
• February 23 » The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
• April 18 » A suicide bomber in Lebanon destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people.
• October 21 » The metre is defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
• October 25 » The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d'état.
• December 31 » The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government.

The temperature on March 18, 1983 was between 8.9 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 2.5 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.