About the day » Tuesday August 23, 1983Calender converter

• Gilian Vermeylen
• Wendy Löesink, Zevenaar
• Rob Meuwissen, Montfort, Gemeente Roerdalen, Limburg, Nederland († 1993)
• John Ryan Klyve, Pope, MN
• Jacobus Wayne Van Holland, Modesto,Stanislaus County,California,United States († 1983)

• Annechina Aaltina BEENS (84)
• Dirkje PONDMAN (88), Purmerend, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Clara Maria Bilk (77), Joinvile, Santa Catarina, Brasil
• bertus kuper (31)
• Bastiaan Schipper (73)
• Alphonsina Paula MATTHÉ (75), Antwerpen, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium
• Christianus Petrus BOSTERS (84), Kaatsheuvel,, Noord-Brabant, Pays-Bas
• Bernhard Hermann Boks (68), Den Burg (Texel, NH)
• Anna Philomena Pluijmen (73), Hoensbroek, LI, Nethertlands
• Antonia Georgina Leopoldina Swolfs ( Anna (78), Edegem UIA

• 1982 » Cristian Tudor, Romanian footballer († 2012)
• 1982 » Natalie Coughlin, American swimmer
• 1982 » Scott Palguta, American soccer player
• 1983 » Athena Farrokhzad, Iranian-Swedish poet, playwright, and critic
• 1983 » Bruno Spengler, Canadian race car driver
• 1983 » Fiona Onasanya, British Labour Party politician and criminal
• 1983 » James Collins, Welsh footballer
• 1983 » Sun Mingming, Chinese basketball player
• 1983 » Tony Moll, American football player
• 1984 » Glen Johnson, English footballer

• 1974 » Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist and author (b. 1888)
• 1975 » Faruk Gürler, Turkish general (b. 1913)
• 1977 » Naum Gabo, Russian sculptor and academic (b. 1890)
• 1982 » Stanford Moore, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• 1987 » Didier Pironi, French race car and boat driver (b. 1952)
• 1989 » Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese poet and academic (b. 1944)
• 1989 » R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist and author (b. 1927)
• 1990 » David Rose, American pianist and composer (b. 1910)
• 1994 » Zoltán Fábri, Hungarian director and screenwriter (b. 1917)
• 1995 » Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-American photographer and journalist (b. 1898)

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.
• February 18 » Thirteen people die and one is seriously injured in the Wah Mee massacre in Seattle. It is said to be the largest robbery-motivated mass-murder in U.S. history.
• March 16 » Demolition of the Ismaning radio transmitter, the last wooden radio tower in Germany.
• April 25 » Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
• May 20 » Church Street bombing: A car bomb planted by Umkhonto we Sizwe explodes on Church Street in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, killing 19 people and injuring 217 others.
• July 25 » Black July: Thirty-seven Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
• November 17 » The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico.

The temperature on August 23, 1983 was between 15.3 °C and 25.8 °C and averaged 20.4 °C. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (61%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.