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• Arend Jan Brinkatte (68), woolde
• Antoinetta Christina Jacoba Maria Gerritse (86), Amsterdam Noord-Holland Nederland
• André Maximilien Hippolyte GUIZELIN (78), Compiegne, 60
• Adrianus Petrus Paulus Mutsaers (79), Tilburg
• Adriana Timmers (88), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arie van der Windt (85), Schipluiden
• arnoldus lenders (86), heerlen
• Alda Teelen (59), Munsterbilzen (B), België
• Beatrix Maria (Bea) Mol (75), Hoorn
• Amelia Van Schil (72), Westmalle

• 1982 » Beto, Portuguese footballer
• 1982 » Darijo Srna, Croatian footballer
• 1982 » Jamie Dornan, Northern Irish model and actor
• 1982 » Katya Zamolodchikova, American drag queen
• 1982 » Mark Farren, Irish footballer († 2016)
• 1982 » Tommy Robredo, Spanish tennis player
• 1983 » Alain Bernard, French swimmer
• 1983 » Human Tornado, American wrestler
• 1983 » Park Hae-jin, South Korean actor
• 1984 » David Backes, American ice hockey player

• 1978 » Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer and conductor (b. 1903)
• 1982 » William Primrose, Scottish viola player and educator (b. 1903)
• 1984 » Jüri Lossmann, Estonian-Swedish runner (b. 1891)
• 1985 » Denise Robins, English journalist and author (b. 1897)
• 1986 » Hugo Peretti, American songwriter and producer (b. 1916)
• 1986 » Hylda Baker, English comedian, actress and music hall performer (b. 1905)
• 1988 » Ben Lexcen, Australian sailor and architect (b. 1936)
• 1989 » Patrice Tardif, Canadian farmer and politician (b. 1904)
• 1989 » Sally Kirkland, American journalist (b. 1912)
• 1989 » V. M. Panchalingam, Sri Lankan civil servant (b. 1930)

• 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.
• 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 17 » Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
• September 19 » Saint Kitts and Nevis gains its independence.
• 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 21 » The metre is defined as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
• December 17 » Provisional IRA members detonate a car bomb at Harrods Department Store in London. Three police officers and three civilians are killed.

The temperature on May 1, 1983 was between 9.1 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 12.1 mm of rain during 11.8 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (6%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.