About the day » Sunday March 20, 1983Calender converter

• Johan Schoonhoven, Den Helder († 2017)
• Scott Peter de ROO, Unity,, Saskatchewan, Canada († 1983)

• Dirk Cornelis van den Heuvel (82)
• Annemiek Kaiser (14), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Augustine Alponsine Lambrechts (70), Sint-Truiden, België
• "Bernard" Marie Lucien Dépinay (65), Le Bono, Morbihan, France
• Annigje Herfst (82), Rotterdam
• Bastiaan Bette (84)
• Adolf Oscar Arickx (73), Kortrijk
• Blanche Agnes Border (71), Tonawanda, Erie, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Maria Antonia Edelbroek (72), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie (van Overbeeke) Veling (63), Goor, Overijssel, Nederland

• 1981 » Carl Webb, Australian rugby league player
• 1981 » Ian Murray, Scottish footballer
• 1982 » José Moreira, Portuguese footballer
• 1982 » Terrence Duffin, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1982 » Tomasz Kuszczak, Polish footballer
• 1983 » Carolina Padrón, Venezuelan journalist
• 1983 » Jenni Vartiainen, Finnish singer
• 1984 » Christy Carlson Romano, American actress and singer
• 1984 » Fernando Torres, Spanish footballer
• 1984 » Vikram Banerjee, English cricketer

• 1974 » Chet Huntley, American journalist (b. 1911)
• 1977 » Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, English politician, 9th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1909)
• 1977 » Terukuni Manzō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 38th Yokozuna (b. 1919)
• 1978 » Jacques Brugnon, French tennis player (b. 1895)
• 1981 » Gerry Bertier, American football player (b. 1953)
• 1983 » Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1891)
• 1990 » Lev Yashin, Russian footballer (b. 1929)
• 1990 » Maurice Cloche, French director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1907)
• 1992 » Georges Delerue, French composer (b. 1925)
• 1993 » Polykarp Kusch, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)

1. Jan
2. Mark
3. Michael
4. Pieter
5. Johannes
6. Robert
7. Jeroen
8. Bart
9. David
10. Peter
11. Paul
12. Thomas
13. Dennis
14. Martijn
15. Maarten
16. Christopher

1. Maria
2. Linda
3. Jessica
4. Kim
5. Nicole
6. Sarah
7. Johanna
8. Marieke
9. Jennifer
10. Anna
11. Laura
12. Wendy
13. Elisabeth
14. Ilona
15. Saskia
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.
• July 16 » Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.
• August 18 » Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 21 people and causing over US$1 billion in damage (1983 dollars).
• September 26 » Australia II wins the America's Cup, ending the New York Yacht Club's 132-year domination of the race.
• October 9 » South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan survives an assassination attempt in Rangoon, Burma (present-day Yangon, Myanmar), but the blast kills 21 and injures 17 others.
• November 26 » Brink's-Mat robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are stolen from the Brink's-Mat vault at Heathrow Airport.
• December 5 » Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina.

The temperature on March 20, 1983 was between 5.5 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.