About the day » Tuesday July 5, 1983Calender converter

• Lindsy Dedeurwaerder
• Tonya Lesher, Colorado († 2024)
• Clark Allen Stacy († 2005)
• Thomas A. Hoyme, fortasse, quodam loco, Verenigde Staten († 1983)
• Johathan Andrew Hoyme, fortasse, quodam loco, Verenigde Staten († 1983)

• Crystal Hazel Slager (89), Imperial, California, United States
• Elizabeth Huizenga (85), Zuidlaren (gem. Tynaarlo)
• Albertus De Pauw (60), Aalst, België
• Antonius J. J. Bodde (48), Denekamp
• Cornelia Aaltina Beekman (93), Katwijk
• Adriaan Logtenberg (64), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Elisabeth Petronella PETERS (62), Arnhem
• Anje Olde (76), Hoogeveen, Nederland
• Cornelia Jacoba Termaat (79), Bennebroek
• Cornelis Pellerin (57), Zandvoort

• 1982 » Alberto Gilardino, Italian footballer
• 1982 » Alexander Dimitrenko, Ukrainian-German boxer
• 1982 » Dave Haywood, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1982 » Fabrício de Souza, Brazilian footballer
• 1982 » Kate Gynther, Australian water polo player
• 1982 » Philippe Gilbert, Belgian cyclist
• 1983 » Jonás Gutiérrez, Argentinian footballer
• 1983 » Marco Estrada, Mexican baseball player
• 1983 » Taavi Peetre, Estonian shot putter († 2010)
• 1983 » Zheng Jie, Chinese tennis player

• 1969 » Leo McCarey, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1898)
• 1969 » Tom Mboya, Kenyan politician, 1st Kenyan Minister of Justice (b. 1930)
• 1969 » Walter Gropius, German architect, designed the John F. Kennedy Federal Building and Werkbund Exhibition (b. 1883)
• 1969 » Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist and educator (b. 1884)
• 1975 » Gilda dalla Rizza, Italian soprano and actress (b. 1892)
• 1983 » Harry James, American trumpet player and actor (b. 1916)
• 1984 » Chic Murray, Canadian politician, 2nd Mayor of Mississauga (b. 1914)
• 1991 » Howard Nemerov, American poet and essayist (b. 1920)
• 1995 » Jüri Järvet, Estonian actor and screenwriter (b. 1919)
• 1997 » A. Thangathurai, Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer and politician (b. 1936)

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

1. Maria
2. Linda
3. Jessica
4. Kim
5. Nicole
6. Sarah
7. Marieke
8. Johanna
9. Jennifer
10. Anna
11. Wendy
12. Laura
13. Elisabeth
14. Saskia
15. Ilona
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.
• January 27 » The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō, breaks through.
• June 13 » Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune.
• July 7 » Cold War: Samantha Smith, a US schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.
• September 6 » The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, stating that its operatives did not know that it was a civilian aircraft when it reportedly violated Soviet airspace.
• September 23 » Gulf Air Flight 771 is destroyed by a bomb, killing all 117 people on board.
• 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.

The temperature on July 5, 1983 was between 13.1 °C and 29.2 °C and averaged 22.2 °C. There was 13.8 hours of sunshine (83%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.