About the day » Wednesday March 4, 1981Calender converter

• JELLE MOSTERT, AMSTELVEEN
• Gene Matthew BANKS, Concord, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten († 2001)

• Adriana Leuntje den Braber (74), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aafke Harms (69), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Beukhof (96), Rhenen
• Aafke (Effie) Elgersma (85), Dodge, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
• Aaltje Bastiana Stuurman (79), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Besse Judson (93), Los Angeles
• Bela van der Hak (97), Amsterdam
• Adriana Johanna van 't Geloof (89), Lage Zwaluwe
• Berniece Marie Anneta HESS (81), Elkhart
• Adriana Johanna van 't GELOOF (89), Lage Zwaluwe, Noord Brabant, Nederland

• 1980 » Giedrius Gustas, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1980 » Jack Hannahan, American baseball player
• 1980 » Michael Henrich, American ice hockey player
• 1980 » Omar Bravo, Mexican footballer
• 1980 » Phil McGuire, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1980 » Rohan Bopanna, Indian tennis player
• 1980 » Scott Hamilton, New Zealand rugby player and coach
• 1980 » Suzanna Choffel, American singer-songwriter
• 1981 » Ariza Makukula, Portuguese footballer
• 1981 » Helen Wyman, English cyclist

• 1977 » Anatol E. Baconsky, Romanian poet, author, and critic (b. 1925)
• 1977 » Andrés Caicedo, Colombian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1951)
• 1977 » Nancy Tyson Burbidge, Australian botanist and curator (b. 1912)
• 1977 » William Paul, American lawyer and politician (b. 1885)
• 1978 » Joe Marsala, American clarinet player and songwriter (b. 1907)
• 1978 » Wesley Bolin, American businessman and politician, 15th Governor of Arizona (b. 1909)
• 1979 » Willi Unsoeld, American mountaineer and educator (b. 1926)
• 1980 » Alan Hardaker, English lieutenant and businessman (b. 1912)
• 1981 » Karl-Jesko von Puttkamer, German admiral (b. 1900)
• 1981 » Torin Thatcher, American actor (b. 1905)

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 17 » President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos lifts martial law eight years and five months after declaring it.
• 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 21 » Transamerica Corporation agrees to sell United Artists to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for $380million after the box office failure of the 1980 film Heaven's Gate.
• June 28 » A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of the Islamic Republican Party.
• July 17 » A structural failure leads to the collapse of a walkway at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri, killing 114 people and injuring more than 200.
• July 19 » In a private meeting with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, French President François Mitterrand reveals the existence of the Farewell Dossier, a collection of documents showing the Soviet Union had been stealing American technological research and development.

The temperature on March 4, 1981 was between -0.7 °C and 1.9 °C and averaged 0.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (5%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.