About the day » Saturday May 7, 1983Calender converter

• Shannon William FOSTER († 2005)
• Nathalia Brulé, Costa Rica († 1985)

• Albino Soares Carvalho (53), Araucária, Paraná, Brasil
• Bennie van Kerkhof (62), Tiel
• Antonius Cornelus Theodorus Ulijn (77), Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arthur Aulden KAHLER (83)
• Antje Kerkhoven (76), Koudekerke
• Anthonius Jacobus Johannes Guns (88), Velo st joseph ziekenhuis
• Adrianus Cornelis Leijten (82)
• Alberdina Johanna Martens (100)
• Akke Bekius (78)
• Bernardina Jowanna van Veen (86), Amsterdam

• 1979 » Katie Douglas, American basketball player
• 1983 » Phionah Atuhebwe, Ugandan vaccinologist and immunization expert
• 1984 » Alex Smith, American football player
• 1984 » James Loney, American baseball player
• 1984 » Kevin Owens, Canadian wrestler
• 1985 » Drew Neitzel, American basketball player
• 1985 » Jarrad Hickey, Australian rugby league player
• 1986 » Matt Helders, English drummer
• 1987 » Asami Konno, Japanese singer
• 1987 » Michael Maidens, English footballer († 2007)

• 1976 » Alison Uttley, English children's book writer (b. 1884)
• 1978 » Mort Weisinger, American journalist and author (b. 1915)
• 1986 » Haldun Taner, Turkish playwright and author (b. 1915)
• 1987 » Colin Blakely, Northern Irish actor (b. 1930)
• 1987 » Paul Popham, American soldier and activist, co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis (b. 1941)
• 1990 » Sam Tambimuttu, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (b. 1932)
• 1994 » Clement Greenberg, American art critic (b. 1909)
• 1995 » Ray McKinley, American drummer, singer, and bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra) (b. 1910)
• 1998 » Allan McLeod Cormack, South African-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1924)
• 1998 » Eddie Rabbitt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941)

• 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.
• January 19 » The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced.
• February 14 » United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee collapses. Its president, Jake Butcher, is later convicted of fraud.
• March 1 » First collection of twelve Swatch models was introduced in Zürich, Switzerland.
• March 11 » Pakistan successfully conducts a cold test of a nuclear weapon.
• April 7 » During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first Space Shuttle spacewalk.
• September 23 » Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations.

The temperature on May 7, 1983 was between 9.8 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.