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• Catharina Maria van Duijn (79), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, 'Nederland
• Antonetta van den Heuvel (81), Breda,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Christiaan Johannes Kalmeijer (84), Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Hubertina Maria Antonia Van Gemert (73), Kerkrade (H)
• Dorsan Constant Louis Hellebuyck (77), Brugge
• Elsje van de Kamp (87), Woerden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Hubertina Loo (84)
• Catharina Seidel (79)
• Elizabeth Reimes (90)
• Alexander Gerhard Bernhard LIMBECK (81), Emmerich (DE)

• 1980 » David Navarro, Spanish footballer
• 1981 » Matt Utai, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1981 » Michalis Pelekanos, Greek basketball player
• 1982 » Adam Boyd, English footballer
• 1982 » Daniel Braaten, Norwegian footballer
• 1982 » Ezekiel Kemboi, Kenyan runner
• 1982 » Jason Kubel, American baseball player
• 1982 » Justin Hodges, Australian rugby league player
• 1982 » Roger Guerreiro, Polish footballer
• 1982 » Ryan Gallant, American skateboarder

• 1977 » Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian author (b. 1904)
• 1979 » Amédée Gordini, Italian-born French racing driver and sports car manufacturer (b. 1899)
• 1979 » Itzhak Bentov, Czech-Israeli engineer, mystic, and author (b. 1923)
• 1981 » Fredric Warburg, English author and publisher (b. 1898)
• 1981 » Ruby Payne-Scott, Australian physicist and astronomer (b. 1912)
• 1983 » Idris of Libya (b. 1889)
• 1983 » Jack Stewart, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1917)
• 1983 » Necip Fazıl Kısakürek, Turkish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1904)
• 1986 » Chester Bowles, American journalist and politician, 22nd Under Secretary of State (b. 1901)
• 1990 » Vic Tayback, American actor (b. 1930)

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.
• January 18 » Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs).
• April 11 » A massive riot in Brixton, south London results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
• June 13 » At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.
• 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.
• October 14 » Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected as the President of Egypt, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat.
• December 31 » A coup d'état in Ghana removes President Hilla Limann's PNP government and replaces it with the Provisional National Defence Council led by Flight lieutenant Jerry Rawlings.

The temperature on May 25, 1981 was between 7.2 °C and 14.6 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (19%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.