About the day » Friday July 8, 1983Calender converter

• Jorrit Wilbrink, Veldhoven († 1983)
• Jorrit Wilbrink, Veldhoven († 1983)
• Irene Hazenberg, Groningen († 2005)

• Driesje Hofman (89), Nunspeet, Gelderland, Nederland
• Annigje Huijgen (82), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Cornelis van Oosterhout (74), Oud Gastel
• Carrie Florence Arends (96), Grand Rapids, Itasca, Minnesota, United States of America
• Derk Dijk van (73), Herveld
• Angelique van der Steen (20)
• Clara Maria Mathilda Trost (81)
• Bernadina Maria Cornelia BEKS (84), Bladel (NL/NB)
• Benjamin Paul Durbin (79)
• Alide Klevesahl (72), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1980 » Eric Chouinard, American-Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 » Robbie Keane, Irish footballer
• 1981 » Anastasia Myskina, Russian tennis player
• 1981 » Wolfram Müller, German runner
• 1982 » Hakim Warrick, American basketball player
• 1982 » Sophia Bush, American actress and director
• 1983 » John Bowker, American baseball player
• 1983 » Rich Peverley, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 » Jaime Garcia, Mexican baseball player
• 1986 » Renata Costa, Brazilian footballer

• 1979 » Michael Wilding, English actor (b. 1912)
• 1979 » Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
• 1979 » Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 1981 » Bill Hallahan, American baseball player (b. 1902)
• 1985 » Jean-Paul Le Chanois, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1909)
• 1985 » Phil Foster, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1913)
• 1986 » Skeeter Webb, American baseball player and manager (b. 1909)
• 1987 » Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet and author (b. 1896)
• 1987 » Lionel Chevrier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 27th Canadian Minister of Justice (b. 1903)
• 1988 » Ray Barbuti, American runner and football player (b. 1905)

• 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 18 » The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family.
• June 18 » Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
• July 19 » The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.
• July 23 » Thirteen Sri Lanka Army soldiers are killed after a deadly ambush by the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
• September 1 » Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace, killing all 269 on board, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald.
• 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.

The temperature on July 8, 1983 was between 16.6 °C and 28.7 °C and averaged 22.2 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (58%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.