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• Antonius Cornelis van Wees (77), Ouderkerk aan de Amstel
• Bernardus Meeusen (91), Baarle-Hertog (België)
• aafje marietje langedijk (89), Cadzand
• Anna Petronella Wilhelmina Van Zeeland (89)
• Anna Petronella Wilhelmina van Zeeland (89), 's-Gravenhage
• Ariaantje van der Plas (92), Katwijk
• Adriaantje van der Plas (92), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arne Johnsen Totsås (79)
• Berend Hendrik Harms (68), Zwartemeer, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Aafje Marietje Klaasdr Langedijk (89), Cadzand

• 1980 » Esteban Cambiasso, Argentinian footballer
• 1980 » Rob Nguyen, Australian race car driver
• 1981 » César Delgado, Argentinian footballer
• 1981 » Dimitris Salpingidis, Greek footballer
• 1983 » Cameron White, Australian cricketer
• 1983 » Mika, Lebanese-born English recording artist and singer-songwriter
• 1984 » Robert Huth, German footballer
• 1984 » Sigourney Bandjar, Dutch footballer
• 1985 » Bryan Ruiz, Costa Rican footballer
• 1985 » Inge Dekker, Dutch swimmer

• 1964 » Hildegard Trabant, Berlin Wall victim (b. 1927)
• 1968 » Arthur Marshall, American pianist and composer (b. 1881)
• 1979 » Vasantrao Naik, Indian politician (b. 1913)
• 1981 » Anita Loos, American author and screenwriter (b. 1889)
• 1983 » Nikolaus Pevsner, German-English historian and scholar (b. 1902)
• 1990 » B. F. Skinner, American psychologist and philosopher, invented the Skinner box (b. 1904)
• 1994 » Francis Raymond Shea, American bishop (b. 1913)
• 1998 » Persis Khambatta, Indian model and actress, Femina Miss India 1965 (b. 1948)
• 2001 » David Peakall, English chemist and toxicologist (b. 1931)
• 2002 » Dean Riesner, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1918)

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

1. Maria
2. Linda
3. Jessica
4. Kim
5. Nicole
6. Sarah
7. Johanna
8. Marieke
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.
• March 16 » Demolition of the Ismaning radio transmitter, the last wooden radio tower in Germany.
• April 12 » Harold Washington is elected as the first black mayor of Chicago.
• July 27 » Black July: Eighteen Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by Sinhalese prisoners, the second such massacre in two days.
• 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.
• November 10 » Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0.
• December 31 » The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government.

The temperature on August 18, 1983 was between 13.8 °C and 26.4 °C and averaged 18.8 °C. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (68%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.