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• Rijk Snitselaar († 1990)
• Chris Bijsma, Groningen, Neth
• tom johannes elisabeth jeucken, tegelen
• David Arthur van der Plas, Rijnsburg († 1983)
• Nick Oude Avenhuis († 1983)

• Adrianus Mouwen (69), Edegem (Bel)
• Bartha Adding (92), Rheden
• Alma Mae Westbrook (63), Sallis, Attala, Mississippi, United States
• Catharina Hendrica Maria Beliën (79), Valkenswaard
• Kriellaars (37), Breda,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltjen Lubberdink (94), Geesteren, Gelderland, Nederland
• Charlotta Jacoba Tesselhoff (79), Amsterdam, NH, Nederland
• Adriana Elisabeth Catharina Zwekars (81), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Carolus Torfs (86), Herentals,St-Anna-Rusthuis
• "Marie-Henriette" Ghislaine Snoy (91), Noorderwijk, Belgique

• 1981 » Andrea Dossena, Italian footballer
• 1981 » Charles Kelley, American singer-songwriter
• 1981 » Hallowicked, American wrestler
• 1982 » Elvan Abeylegesse, Ethiopian-Turkish runner
• 1982 » Yelena Parkhomenko, Azerbaijani volleyball player
• 1983 » Ike Diogu, American basketball player
• 1983 » Jacoby Ellsbury, American baseball player
• 1983 » Vivian Cheruiyot, Kenyan sprinter
• 1984 » Aled de Malmanche, New Zealand rugby player
• 1984 » Benson Stanley, New Zealand rugby player

• 1982 » Albert Soboul, French historian and academic (b. 1914)
• 1984 » Jerry Voorhis, American politician (b. 1901)
• 1985 » Eleanor Dark, Australian author (b. 1901)
• 1985 » Henrietta Barnett, British Women's Royal Air Force officer (b. 1905)
• 1985 » William Alwyn, English composer, conductor, and educator (b. 1905)
• 1986 » Noel Streatfeild, English author (b. 1895)
• 1986 » Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, Greek academic and politician, 138th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1902)
• 1987 » Lorne Greene, Canadian actor (b. 1915)
• 1987 » Mahadevi Varma, Indian poet and educator (b. 1907)
• 1987 » Peter Tosh, Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1944)

• 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.
• 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 23 » Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba.
• 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.
• December 4 » US Navy aircraft from USS John F. Kennedy and USS Independence attack Syrian Missile sites in Lebanon in response to an F-14 being fired on by an SA-7. One A-6 Intruder and A-7 Corsair are shot down. 1 American pilot was killed, one was rescued and one is captured.

The temperature on September 11, 1983 was between 8.9 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 17.5 mm of rain during 11.4 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (8%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.