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• Paul Meuwissen, Montfort, Gemeente Roerdalen, Limburg, Nederland († 1998)
• Christof VAN NIEUWERBURGH, Leuven († 1988)
• Marja Wilhelmina Maria(Marja) van der Zalm, Leiderdorp
• Marleen Helena Johanna Tijsterman, Gouda
• Anthony James de Berg, Sheldon, O´Brien County, Iowa († 2022)

• Cornelia van de Velde (54)
• Cornelis van Zoelen (72), Beusichem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Aafke Overzet (84), Wolvega
• Albertus Christiaan Mulderij (48), Brummen
• Bruce Reid ROBINSON (61), Huntsville, AL
• Anna Kralertová (79)
• Arie Johannes Verweij (61)
• Catharina Alberdina Neggers (78), Eindhoven
• Anna Maria op het Veld (93), Herten, Netherlands
• Antoine Hubert Joseph Marie Dierick (71), Hulst, Zeeland, Nederland

• 1977 » Deco, Brazilian-Portuguese footballer
• 1977 » Justin Miller, American baseball player († 2013)
• 1979 » Aaron Paul, American actor and producer
• 1979 » Rusty Smith, American speed skater
• 1979 » Sarah Neufeld, Canadian violinist
• 1981 » Alessandro Gamberini, Italian footballer
• 1981 » Maxwell Cabelino Andrade, Brazilian footballer
• 1983 » Joanna McGilchrist, English rugby player and physiotherapist
• 1984 » David Bentley, English footballer
• 1984 » Sulley Muntari, Ghanaian footballer

• 1971 » Bennett Cerf, American publisher, co-founded Random House (b. 1898)
• 1971 » Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer and journalist (b. 1906)
• 1975 » Haile Selassie, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1892)
• 1978 » Gordon Matta-Clark, American painter and illustrator (b. 1943)
• 1978 » Ieva Simonaitytė, Lithuanian author and poet (b. 1897)
• 1979 » Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, English admiral and politician, 44th Governor-General of India (b. 1900)
• 1980 » Douglas Kenney, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1947)
• 1981 » Valeri Kharlamov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1948)
• 1990 » Avdy Andresson, Estonian soldier and diplomat (b. 1899)
• 1990 » Stevie Ray Vaughan, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1954) (Double Trouble)

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.
• 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.
• May 26 » Italian Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of the pseudo-masonic lodge P2 (Propaganda Due).
• August 1 » MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles.
• September 21 » Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court justice.
• 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.
• 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 August 27, 1981 was between 10.0 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.