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• John Vanthienen, Hasselt, België († 2002)
• Bertus Zomer († 1983)

• Banks Taylor Boyd (76), Houston, Texas
• Arthur B. Garland (74), Arlington, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
• Christianus Franciscus Cooijmans (86)
• * Cornelis Gijsbertus de Weerd (78), Tiel
• Bertus Zomer (0)
• Alida Johanna Petronella van Weel (70), Tiel
• conrardus johannes (coen) thiesen (58), venlo (ziekenhuis)
• Auke de Vries (78), Leeuwarden
• Albert Gerard van Hulst (70), Utrecht
• Carolus Alphonsus Helsen (71), Borgerhout

• 1982 » John Alvbåge, Swedish footballer
• 1982 » Josh Anderson, American baseball player
• 1982 » Julia Melim, Brazilian actress
• 1983 » Alexander Perezhogin, Russian ice hockey player
• 1983 » C. B. Dollaway, American mixed martial artist
• 1983 » Héctor Faubel, Spanish motorcycle racer
• 1983 » Kyle Brown, American soccer player
• 1983 » Mathieu Roy, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1984 » Mokomichi Hayami, Japanese model and actor
• 1984 » Ryan Eggold, American actor and composer

• 1969 » János Kodolányi, Hungarian author (b. 1899)
• 1976 » Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer (b. 1894)
• 1979 » Dick Foran, American actor and singer (b. 1910)
• 1979 » Walter Gerlach, German physicist and academic (b. 1889)
• 1980 » Yahya Khan, Pakistani general and politician, 3rd President of Pakistan (b. 1917)
• 1982 » Anderson Bigode Herzer, Brazilian author and poet (b. 1962)
• 1985 » Nate Barragar, American football player and sergeant (b. 1906)
• 1987 » Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, Greek lawyer and politician, 163rd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1893)
• 1991 » Lưu Trọng Lư, Vietnamese poet and playwright (b. 1912)
• 1993 » Euronymous, Norwegian singer, guitarist, and producer (b. 1968)

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.
• April 4 » Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space.
• May 26 » The 7.8 M_w  Sea of Japan earthquake shakes northern Honshu with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami is generated that leaves about 100 people dead.
• July 19 » The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.
• 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 9 » South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan survives an assassination attempt in Rangoon, Burma (present-day Yangon, Myanmar), but the blast kills 21 and injures 17 others.
• October 22 » Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons.

The temperature on August 10, 1983 was between 15.0 °C and 27.0 °C and averaged 19.6 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.