About the day » Monday February 9, 1981Calender converter

• NN Mulder, Utrecht († 1981)
• Benno Korten († 2002)
• Marcel Funcke, Maurik († 2001)
• Louisa Mary MACFIE, New Town, Tasmania, Australia († 1981)

• Aaltje MAATMAN (83), Hilversum
• Bernard van der Lugt (97), Wijhe
• Berend Mannak (87)
• "Anne Marie" Marguerite Eugénie Didelot (90), Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt, Yvelines, France
• Anne Adema (69), Abbega
• Corbit Collins Simmons (69)
• Charles Clinton LAWSON (78)
• Adriana Evers (86), Roosendaal,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albertus Klaas Fröling (71), Dordrecht
• Ann Lillian Carter (76), Horry County, South Carolina

• 1979 » Akinori Iwamura, Japanese baseball player
• 1980 » Angelos Charisteas, Greek footballer
• 1980 » Manu Raju, American journalist
• 1980 » Margarita Levieva, Russian-American actress
• 1981 » Daisuke Sekimoto, Japanese wrestler
• 1981 » Tom Hiddleston, English actor, producer, and musical performer
• 1982 » Ami Suzuki, Japanese singer-songwriter and actress
• 1982 » Chris Weale, English footballer and manager
• 1982 » Domingo Cisma, Spanish footballer
• 1982 » Jameer Nelson, American basketball player

• 1969 » George "Gabby" Hayes, American actor and singer (b. 1885)
• 1976 » Percy Faith, Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1908)
• 1977 » Sergey Ilyushin, Russian engineer and businessman, founded the Ilyushin Design Company (b. 1894)
• 1978 » Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist and coach (b. 1893)
• 1979 » Allen Tate, American poet and academic (b. 1899)
• 1980 » Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and author (b. 1900)
• 1981 » Bill Haley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1925)
• 1981 » M. C. Chagla, Indian jurist and politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs (b. 1900)
• 1984 » Yuri Andropov, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1914)
• 1989 » Osamu Tezuka, Japanese illustrator, animator, and producer (b. 1928)

1. Jan
2. Jeroen
3. Mark
4. Peter
5. Johannes
6. Michael
7. Hendrik
8. Maarten
9. Robert
10. Sander
11. David
12. Willem
13. Pieter
14. Dennis
15. Patrick
16. Paul

1. Maria
2. Linda
3. Kim
4. Esther
5. Johanna
6. Marieke
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 8 » Twenty-one association football spectators are trampled to death at Karaiskakis Stadium in Neo Faliro, Greece, after a football match between Olympiacos F.C. and AEK Athens F.C.
• February 13 » A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky.
• March 1 » Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.
• April 11 » A massive riot in Brixton, south London results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
• August 5 » President Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work.
• 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.

The temperature on February 9, 1981 was between 5.3 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.