About the day » Friday January 9, 1981Calender converter

• Dirk-Jan Wijnands, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1981)
• Kimberley Ellen JAGER, Oak Lawn, Illinois, Verenigde Staten († 2006)

• Berend Kuiper (54)
• Berend Kuiper (54), Almelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Beert Schuchard (53)
• Charles Coudert Nast (77), Nyack, Rockland, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Catharina van Beers (83), Baarle-Nassau,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Carolina Martina van Helvert van HELVOIRT (82), Tilburg,,Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Barbara Hendrika Josephina (Beppie) van het Schip (57), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Hendrika Taselaar (89), Oud Beijerland
• Anna Hendrika Taselaar (88), Oud Beijerland Z.H
• ten Asbroek (84), Oldenzaal

• 1978 » AJ McLean, American singer
• 1978 » Chad Johnson, American football player and actor
• 1978 » Gennaro Gattuso, Italian footballer and manager
• 1978 » Mathieu Garon, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 » Édgar Álvarez, Honduran footballer
• 1980 » Francisco Pavón, Spanish footballer
• 1980 » Sergio García, Spanish golfer
• 1981 » Euzebiusz Smolarek, Polish footballer and manager
• 1982 » Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge
• 1984 » Drew Brown, American musician and songwriter

• 1972 » Ted Shawn, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1891)
• 1975 » Pierre Fresnay, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1897)
• 1975 » Pyotr Novikov, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1901)
• 1979 » Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian engineer and architect, designed the Tour de la Bourse and Pirelli Tower (b. 1891)
• 1981 » Kazimierz Serocki, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1922)
• 1984 » Bob Dyer, American-Australian radio and television host (b. 1909)
• 1985 » Robert Mayer, German-English businessman and philanthropist (b. 1879)
• 1987 » Arthur Lake, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1988 » Peter L. Rypdal, Norwegian fiddler and composer (b. 1909)
• 1989 » Bill Terry, American baseball player and manager (b. 1898)

1. Jan
2. Jeroen
3. Mark
4. Peter
5. Johannes
6. Michael
7. Maarten
8. Hendrik
9. Robert
10. Sander
11. David
12. Willem
13. Dennis
14. Pieter
15. Patrick
16. Paul

1. Maria
2. Linda
3. Kim
4. Esther
5. Marieke
6. Johanna
7. Anna
8. Jessica
9. Wendy
10. Suzanne
11. Jennifer
12. Judith
13. Sarah
14. Sandra
15. Laura
16. Elisabeth

• 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 Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 14.2 million citizens.
• January 8 » A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".
• May 21 » The Italian government releases the membership list of Propaganda Due, an illegal pseudo-Masonic lodge that was implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries.
• May 21 » Transamerica Corporation agrees to sell United Artists to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for $380million after the box office failure of the 1980 film Heaven's Gate.
• July 19 » In a private meeting with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, French President François Mitterrand reveals the existence of the Farewell Dossier, a collection of documents showing the Soviet Union had been stealing American technological research and development.
• December 17 » American Brigadier General James L. Dozier is abducted by the Red Brigades in Verona, Italy.
• December 31 » A coup d'état in Ghana removes President Hilla Limann's PNP government and replaces it with the Provisional National Defence Council led by Flight lieutenant Jerry Rawlings.

The temperature on January 9, 1981 was between 2.7 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 11.0 mm of rain during 13.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.