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• Joseph Edward Greathouse, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky († 1990)
• Eric van Langen, Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1995)

• Addison Roosevelt Lewis (80), Dickson, Dickson, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten
• Arendje van der Zwan (88), Scheveningen
• Count Wauthier of Bousies
• Benedito Nunes Rato (87), São Miguel Arcanjo, São Paulo, Brasil
• "Wauthier" Luc Charles Baudouin Marie Ghislain de Bousies (57), Jurbise, Belgique
• Catharina Eekeren van (65), Amersfoort, Utr, Nederland
• Baye Barelds Pultrum (74), Surhuisterveen, Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• * Arnolda Harmina van Cutsem (77), Bussem
• Boyd Burton Meyer (64), Pierre, Hughes County, South Dakota, VS
• Adriana Cornelia Verhoeven (77), Veghel

• 1979 » Iain Balshaw, English rugby player
• 1979 » Marios Elia, Cypriot footballer
• 1979 » Rebecca DiPietro, American wrestler and model
• 1979 » Ross Filipo, New Zealand rugby player
• 1980 » Jeremy Smith, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1980 » Win Butler, American-Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1981 » Amy Leach, English director and producer
• 1981 » Mustafa Güngör, German rugby player
• 1982 » Larissa França, Brazilian volleyball player
• 1982 » Uğur Boral, Turkish footballer

• 1975 » Fredric March, American actor (b. 1897)
• 1975 » Günter Dyhrenfurth, German-Swiss mountaineer, geologist, and explorer (b. 1886)
• 1976 » José Revueltas, Mexican author and activist (b. 1914)
• 1978 » F. R. Leavis, English educator and critic (b. 1895)
• 1978 » Joe Gordon, American baseball player and manager (b. 1915)
• 1983 » Gianni Rodari, Italian journalist and author (b. 1920)
• 1983 » Pete Farndon, English bassist (The Pretenders) (b. 1952)
• 1986 » Simone de Beauvoir, French novelist and philosopher (b. 1908)
• 1990 » Olabisi Onabanjo, Nigerian politician, 3rd Governor of Ogun State (b. 1927)
• 1990 » Thurston Harris, American singer (b. 1931)

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. Jennifer
11. Suzanne
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.
• 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.
• June 13 » At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.
• July 17 » A structural failure leads to the collapse of a walkway at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri, killing 114 people and injuring more than 200.
• August 30 » President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are assassinated in a bombing committed by the People's Mujahedin of Iran.
• November 12 » Space Shuttle program: Mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marks the first time a manned spacecraft is launched into space twice.
• November 25 » Pope John Paul II appoints Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (the future Pope Benedict XVI) Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

The temperature on April 14, 1981 was between 3.1 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 11.7 hours of sunshine (85%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.