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• Robertus Johannes Cornelis Kerssens, Zaandam († 1983)
• Teedens

• Age Ottes JOUWSMA (95)
• Agatha Jacoba Endeveld (70), Salt Lake City, Utah, Verenigde Staten
• Alexander Maria JANSSENS (77), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonio van Rixtel (79), Nijmegen,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Augusto Dalpiaz (95), Maquiné, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
• Bauke Sjoerds Postma (93)
• Barthus Koetsier (91)
• Catharina Margaretha Ahlers (64)
• Adrianus Kleijn (54)
• Agatha Jacoba 2 Endeveld (70), Salt Lake City, Uta/USA

• 1978 » Ali Curtis, American soccer player
• 1978 » Daniel Cleary, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1978 » Josh Dallas, American actor
• 1978 » Katie Holmes, American actress
• 1980 » Benjamin Watson, American football player
• 1980 » Christina Aguilera, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1980 » Heinz Inniger, Swiss snowboarder
• 1980 » Neil Fingleton, English actor and basketball player, one of the tallest 25 men in the world († 2017)
• 1983 » Andy Fantuz, Canadian football player
• 1984 » Brian Boyle, American ice hockey player

• 1974 » Harry Hooper, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1887)
• 1975 » Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian geneticist and biologist (b. 1900)
• 1977 » Louis Untermeyer American poet, anthologist, critic (b. 1885)
• 1977 » Michio Nishizawa, Japanese baseball player and manager (b. 1921)
• 1980 » Alexei Kosygin, Russian soldier and politician, 8th Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1904)
• 1980 » Dobriša Cesarić, Croatian poet and translator (b. 1902)
• 1982 » Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German colonel and pilot (b. 1916)
• 1985 » Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet and author (b. 1916)
• 1987 » Conny Plank, German keyboard player and producer (b. 1940)
• 1988 » Niyazi Berkes, Turkish Cypriot-English sociologist and academic (b. 1908)

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

1. Maria
2. Linda
3. Kim
4. Esther
5. Johanna
6. Marieke
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 20 » Ronald Reagan is inaugurated the 40th President of the United States of America. Twenty minutes later, Iran releases 52 American hostages.
• June 13 » At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.
• June 25 » Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
• 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.
• August 25 » Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn.
• October 6 » Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is murdered by Islamic extremists.

The temperature on December 18, 1981 was between -12.3 °C and -6.7 °C and averaged -9.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.