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• Patty Mae Buiter, Doetinchem, Nederland († 2011)
• Nellie Körfer, Heerlen,, Limburg, Nederland († 2013)
• Renske Wigmore, Nieuwerkerk aan de IJssel
• Bradley Joseph Holzinger († 1981)
• Eva Jil Buiter, Doetinchem, Nederland († 2000)

• Arie Janknecht (63), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Janknegt (63)
• Antonia Francisca van Brunschot (78), Breda
• Arie Adrianus Kalkman (80), breda
• Antonie Schou(w)mans (59), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland NED
• Christine Brahm (72), Bonn Beuel (D)
• Adrianus Bastiaansen (75), Etten-Leur
• Arie Flach (70), Rotterdam
• Clément Louis Bonnier (82), Seclin, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Hinrichs (97), Clarksville, Butler, Iowa

• 1979 » Oscar Isaac, Guatemalan-American actor
• 1981 » Antonio Bryant, American football player
• 1981 » Clay Rapada, American baseball player
• 1982 » Matt Bowen, Australian rugby league player
• 1982 » Mirjana Lučić-Baroni, Croatian tennis player
• 1982 » Ryan Bayley, Australian cyclist
• 1983 » Clint Dempsey, American international soccer player, forward
• 1983 » Wayne Simien, American basketball player
• 1984 » Abdoulay Konko, French footballer
• 1984 » Julia Mancuso, American skier

• 1969 » Abdul Munim Riad, Egyptian general (b. 1919)
• 1971 » Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria (b. 1902)
• 1974 » Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr., American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
• 1974 » Harry Womack, American singer (b. 1945)
• 1983 » Faye Emerson, American actress (b. 1917)
• 1983 » Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1988 » Kurt Georg Kiesinger, German lawyer, politician and Chancellor of Germany (b. 1904)
• 1989 » Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (b. 1946)
• 1991 » Jim Hardin, American baseball player (b. 1943)
• 1992 » Menachem Begin, Belarusian-Israeli soldier, politician and Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)

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.
• March 5 » The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1​⁄₂ million units around the world.
• May 26 » An EA-6B Prowler crashes on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USSNimitz, killing 14 crewmen and injuring 45 others.
• June 28 » A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of the Islamic Republican Party.
• August 5 » President Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work.
• September 15 » The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
• November 12 » Space Shuttle program: Mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marks the first time a manned spacecraft is launched into space twice.

The temperature on March 9, 1981 was between 8.4 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 26.1 mm of rain during 21.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.