About the day » Monday March 7, 1983Calender converter

• Elwin Rip, Etten-Leur († 1983)
• Dale Alan Ebel Geertsema, Newmarket, Ontario (Canada) († 1998)
• Kasondra June Senzig, Pontiac, Oakland, Michigan, United States († 1983)

• Albert Jan Voortman (83), Gorssel,Gemeente Lochem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alje Kroon (68), Meeden, Groningen, The Netherlands
• Adolf Josephus Koemans (72), Hulst,, Zeeland, Nederland
• Antje den Haas (79), IJmuiden, Velsen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Waltherus de Haas (73), Breda
• Albert Petrus Meersman (66), Bornem
• Alida Maria Blom (89), Waarder, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Lucas (59)
• Aalderd Jan Altena (71), Lutten
• Adrianus Mattheus Bouwman (85), Ouder-Amstel, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1980 » Eric Godard, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 » Murat Boz, Turkish singer-songwriter
• 1981 » Brent Kite, Australian rugby league player
• 1983 » Manucho, Angolan footballer
• 1983 » Sebastián Viera, Uruguayan footballer
• 1984 » Lindsay McCaul, American singer-songwriter
• 1984 » Mathieu Flamini, French footballer
• 1985 » Andre Fluellen, American football player
• 1985 » Cameron Prosser, Australian swimmer
• 1985 » Gerwyn Price, Welsh darts player

• 1973 » Lalo Ríos, Mexican actor (b. 1927)
• 1975 » Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher and critic (b. 1895)
• 1976 » Wright Patman, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1893)
• 1981 » Kirill Kondrashin, Russian conductor (b. 1914)
• 1982 » Ida Barney, American astronomer, mathematician, and academic (b. 1886)
• 1983 » Igor Markevitch, Ukrainian conductor and composer (b. 1912)
• 1986 » Jacob K. Javits, American colonel and politician, 58th New York State Attorney General (b. 1904)
• 1988 » Divine, American drag queen and film actor (b. 1945)
• 1991 » Cool Papa Bell, American baseball player (b. 1903)
• 1993 » Tony Harris, South African cricketer (b. 1916)

• 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 21 » The world's lowest temperature in an inhabited location is recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at −89.2°C (−128.6°F).
• September 26 » Soviet Air Force officer Stanislav Petrov identifies a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike.
• 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.
• October 22 » Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons.
• November 27 » Avianca Flight 011: A Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 181.
• December 31 » The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government.

The temperature on March 7, 1983 was between 5.3 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (20%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.