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• Marianna Costa Pereira, São Luis de Montes Belos, GO, Brazilië
• Astrid Kouseband
• Ewoud Rijk († 1981)

• Christine Mariën (16), Leuven, België
• Anne Jans Sietsma (80), Drachten
• August Joseph Bertrand Fucks (65), Bilzen, België
• Adrianus Mannee (74)
• Adrianus van Elteren (68), Etten-Leur, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• * Willem van Linstee (79), Leerdam
• Ane Katstra
• Clara Louise Marie Schoenheider (88), Elmhurst
• Bernardus Hendrikus Kuipers (64), Zenderen
• Bertus Kossen (95), Den Helder

• 1980 » Joe Budden, American rapper
• 1981 » Ahmad Al Harthy, Omani race car driver
• 1981 » Dwayne Peel, Welsh rugby player
• 1981 » Steve Saviano, American ice hockey player
• 1982 » Alexei Mikhnov, Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player
• 1982 » Chris Duhon, American basketball player
• 1982 » Christopher Katongo, Zambian footballer
• 1982 » Ian Crocker, American swimmer
• 1982 » Josh Kroeger, American baseball player
• 1982 » Lien Huyghebaert, Belgian sprinter

• 1974 » Norman Kirk, New Zealand engineer and politician, 29th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1923)
• 1974 » William Pershing Benedict, American soldier and pilot (b. 1918)
• 1978 » John Wrathall, Rhodesian accountant and politician, 2nd President of Rhodesia (b. 1913)
• 1979 » Sally Rand, American actress and dancer (b. 1904)
• 1979 » Tiger Smith, English cricketer and coach (b. 1886)
• 1984 » Audrey Wagner, American baseball player, obstetrician, and gynecologist (b. 1927)
• 1985 » Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1986 » Elizabeth Coatsworth, American author and poet (b. 1893)
• 1986 » Henry Moore, English sculptor and illustrator (b. 1898)
• 1986 » Urho Kekkonen, Finnish journalist, lawyer, and politician, 8th President of Finland (b. 1900)

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.
• April 4 » Iran–Iraq War: The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force mounts an attack on H-3 Airbase and destroys about 50 Iraqi aircraft.
• 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).
• June 11 » A magnitude 6.9 earthquake at Golbaf, Iran, kills at least 2,000.
• June 25 » Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
• September 15 » The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.
• November 11 » Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations.

The temperature on August 31, 1981 was between 9.1 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (28%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.