About the day » Tuesday July 7, 1981Calender converter

• Mark Meijs, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1994)
• Virginie Naaktgeboren, Dordrecht (Zuid-Holland) († 2019)

• Adrianus van Kampen (71)
• Anna Molitor (81), Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
• Clasina van den Eijkel (79), Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie de Vreugd (36), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Clasina Dirks van den Eijkel (79), Katwijk
• Agatha Buis (88), Laren
• Catharina Josephina Cowé (92), Pater Damiaanstraat 39, Tremelo
• Adrianus Grootswagers (92), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• August Langmayr (75), Salzburg
• Anton Greef (69)

• 1979 » Anastasios Gousis, Greek sprinter
• 1979 » Douglas Hondo, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1979 » Ibrahim Sulayman Muhammad Arbaysh, Saudi Arabian terrorist († 2015)
• 1980 » John Buck, American baseball player
• 1980 » Michelle Kwan, American figure skater
• 1980 » Serdar Kulbilge, Turkish footballer
• 1981 » Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian cricketer
• 1982 » George Owu, Ghanaian footballer
• 1982 » Jan Laštůvka, Czech footballer
• 1983 » Justin Davies, Australian footballer

• 1972 » Athenagoras I of Constantinople (b. 1886)
• 1973 » Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (b. 1895)
• 1973 » Veronica Lake, American actress (b. 1922)
• 1976 » Walter Giesler, American soccer player and referee (b. 1910)
• 1978 » Francisco Mendes, Guinea-Bissau lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1933)
• 1980 » Dore Schary, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1905)
• 1982 » Bon Maharaja, Indian guru and religious writer (b. 1901)
• 1984 » George Oppen, American poet and author (b. 1908)
• 1987 » Germaine Thyssens-Valentin, Dutch-French pianist (b. 1902)
• 1990 » Bill Cullen, American television panelist and game show host (b. 1920)

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 19 » Iran hostage crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.
• February 23 » In Spain, Antonio Tejero attempts a coup d'état by capturing the Spanish Congress of Deputies.
• May 12 » Francis Hughes, Provisional IRA hunger striker, dies in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland.
• August 7 » The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.
• August 19 » Gulf of Sidra Incident: United States fighters intercept and shoot down two Libyan Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets over the Gulf of Sidra.
• December 14 » Arab–Israeli conflict: Israel's Knesset ratifies the Golan Heights Law, extending Israeli law to the occupied Golan Heights.

The temperature on July 7, 1981 was between 12.9 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (57%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.