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• Anthonia Johanna van Zijderveld (82)
• Apolonia Antoinette van Oost (78), Alphen aan de Rijn
• Antonia Henrica Joanna Josephina Pelders (49), Tilburg, Nederland
• Cody Lynn Crosnoe (34)
• Dirk Kossen (90), Uitgeest
• Arie Maat (76), Dordrecht
• Catharina Mechtildis Rutten (84), Leut
• Cornelis Blokker (80), Sint Maarten, Nederland
• Adrianus Kwint (61), Tiel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Allie Ola DUNN (80), Slidell (Louisiana) VS

• 1981 » Meagan Good, American actress and producer
• 1981 » Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player
• 1981 » Vanessa Amorosi, Australian singer-songwriter
• 1982 » David Florence, English canoe racer
• 1982 » Ross Ohlendorf, American baseball player
• 1983 » Guy Burnet, English actor and producer
• 1983 » Willie Tonga, Australian rugby league player
• 1984 » Kirk Broadfoot, Scottish footballer
• 1984 » Martrez Milner, American football player
• 1984 » Norbert Michelisz, Hungarian racing driver

• 1979 » Nicholas Monsarrat, English lieutenant and author (b. 1910)
• 1980 » Paul Triquet, Canadian general, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1910)
• 1981 » Thomas McElwee, Irish republican and PIRA volunteer (b. 1957)
• 1982 » Eric Brandon, English racing driver and businessman (b. 1920)
• 1984 » Ellen Raskin, American author and illustrator (b. 1928)
• 1984 » Richard Deacon, American actor (b. 1921)
• 1985 » Louise Brooks, American actress (b. 1906)
• 1987 » Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician and physicist (b. 1903)
• 1988 » Alan Napier, English actor (b. 1903)
• 1988 » Félix Leclerc, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1914)

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. 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 23 » The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
• July 23 » Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba.
• July 25 » Black July: Thirty-seven Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
• September 12 » A Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is robbed of approximately US$7 million by Los Macheteros.
• 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.
• November 10 » Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0.

The temperature on August 8, 1983 was between 13.3 °C and 26.8 °C and averaged 20.7 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (59%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.