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• Bradley Steven Willemssen († 1995)
• Wilhelmus Gerardus Maria Holterman, Zwolle († 2004)
• Irene Elisabeth Josephina Maria Potten, Venray, Limburg, Nederland
• Rachael C. van der Weit
• w.e.g.m. (miriam) koopmans, meijel
• Bjorn de Vet, Geldrop († 2000)

• Anna Maria Pijpers (73), Beek
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• Arnoldus Johannes Maria Werker (71), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Verdoorn (83), Utrecht
• Christiaan Hendrikus Hubertus "Christ" Beunen (79), Venray, Li.NL. (ZKH)
• Clarence J. Spoelma (77), Allendale, Ottawa County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• André Edouard HETRU (49), Lille... Hauts de France
• Adriana Maria Dekkers (75), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Adriaantje Nicolaasdr Hoogschagen (74), Alkmaar
• Adrianus VERDOORN (83), Utrecht

• 1979 » Maggie Q, American actress
• 1979 » Nazanin Boniadi, Iranian-American actress
• 1980 » Lucy Gordon, British actress and model († 2009)
• 1980 » Sharice Davids, American politician
• 1981 » Bassel Khartabil, Syrian computer programmer and engineer († 2015)
• 1981 » Daniel Bryan, American wrestler
• 1981 » Jürgen Melzer, Austrian tennis player
• 1982 » Apolo Ohno, American speed skater
• 1982 » Erin McNaught, Australian model and actress
• 1982 » Hong Yong-jo, North Korean footballer

• 1972 » Cecil Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish poet and author (b. 1904)
• 1972 » Margaret Rutherford, English actress (b. 1892)
• 1974 » Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, German-American mathematician and aerospace engineer (b. 1903)
• 1975 » Lefty Grove, American baseball player (b. 1900)
• 1982 » Cevdet Sunay, Turkish general and politician, 5th President of Turkey (b. 1899)
• 1983 » Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1985 » Wolfgang Reitherman, German-American animator, director, and producer (b. 1909)
• 1988 » Giorgio Almirante, Italian journalist and politician (b. 1914)
• 1989 » Steven De Groote, South African pianist and educator (b. 1953)
• 1990 » Rocky Graziano, American boxer (b. 1922)

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.
• January 28 » Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls in the United States helping to end the 1979 energy crisis and begin the 1980s oil glut.
• February 6 » The National Resistance Army of Uganda launches an attack on a Ugandan Army installation in the central Mubende District to begin the Ugandan Bush War.
• March 1 » Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.
• March 5 » The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1​⁄₂ million units around the world.
• December 1 » Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308, a McDonnell Douglas MD-80, crashes in Corsica, killing all 180 people on board.
• December 15 » A suicide car bombing targeting the Iraqi embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, levels the embassy and kills 61 people, including Iraq's ambassador to Lebanon. The attack is considered the first modern suicide bombing.

The temperature on May 22, 1981 was between 9.1 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 17.7 mm of rain during 4.5 hours. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.