About the day » Monday May 16, 1983Calender converter

• Rachael L. CRAM, Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 1984)
• Amarins (Wendel Amarins) Schuilenburg, Warnsveld
• Laurens Daniel Huijzer, Haarlem
• Вероника (Veronica) Ковальская (Kovalska), mykolaef, oekraine
• Jillian Dawn Weaver, Victorville, California, Verenigde Staten († 1983)

• Albert Thegler (69)
• Adrianus Franciscus van Zunderd (70), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Petronella Maria Dissel (72), Rotterdam
• Carel Tammo Brons (52), Utrecht
• Adriana Jozephina van Paassen (95), Poeldijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bernardus Theodorus Kosse (12)
• anna elisabeth (anna) denessen (86), tegelen
• Adrianus Gerardus van Houten (52), Oud Zuilen, Nederland
• David Edwin Corner (75), Cadillac, Wexford County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Elisabeth Denessen (86), Tegelen

• 1981 » Ricardo Costa, Portuguese footballer
• 1982 » Łukasz Kubot, Polish tennis player
• 1983 » Daniel Kerr, Australian footballer
• 1983 » Kyle Wellwood, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1984 » Darío Cvitanich, Argentinian footballer
• 1984 » Jensen Lewis, American baseball player
• 1984 » Rick Rypien, Canadian ice hockey player († 2011)
• 1984 » Tomáš Fleischmann, Czech ice hockey player
• 1985 » Anja Mittag, German footballer
• 1985 » Rodrigo Peters Marques, Brazilian footballer

• 1977 » Modibo Keïta, Malian politician, 1st President of Mali (b. 1915)
• 1979 » A. Philip Randolph, American union leader and activist (b. 1889)
• 1981 » Ernie Freeman, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1922)
• 1981 » Willy Hartner, German physician and academic (b. 1905)
• 1984 » Andy Kaufman, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter (b. 1949)
• 1984 » Irwin Shaw, American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1913)
• 1985 » Margaret Hamilton, American actress (b. 1902)
• 1989 » Leila Kasra, Iranian poet and songwriter (b. 1939)
• 1990 » Jim Henson, American puppeteer, director, producer, and screenwriter, created The Muppets (b. 1936)
• 1990 » Sammy Davis Jr., American singer, dancer, and actor (b. 1925)

• 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.
• April 22 » The German magazine Stern claims the "Hitler Diaries" had been found in wreckage in East Germany; the diaries are subsequently revealed to be forgeries.
• May 1 » The Sydney Entertainment Centre is opened.
• November 8 » TAAG Angola Airlines Flight 462 crashes after takeoff from Lubango Airport killing all 130 people on board. UNITA claims to have shot down the aircraft, though this is disputed.
• December 4 » US Navy aircraft from USS John F. Kennedy and USS Independence attack Syrian Missile sites in Lebanon in response to an F-14 being fired on by an SA-7. One A-6 Intruder and A-7 Corsair are shot down. 1 American pilot was killed, one was rescued and one is captured.
• December 27 » Pope John Paul II visits Mehmet Ali Ağca in Rebibbia's prison and personally forgives him for the 1981 attack on him in St. Peter's Square.

The temperature on May 16, 1983 was between 6.5 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.