About the day » Tuesday May 26, 1981Calender converter

• Dwi Rahayu Marintan

• Christiaan Kleisterlee (0), Nijmegen,Gelderland,Niederlande
• Cornelia Jans Zandbergen (87), Katwijk
• Adam de Jong (61)
• Aart Jansen (69), Utrecht
• Anna Helena Nijhof(f) (86)
• Carolus De Laet (75), Lier
• Anna Helena Nijhof (86), Emmen
• Anna Petronella Commissaris (64), Leimuiden, Kaag en Braassem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Annie May Prince (78), Gemeente den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Caroline Mathilde Apollonia Maria du PONT (77), Kassel, Hessen, Deutschland

• 1979 » Amanda Bauer, American astronomer and academic
• 1979 » Natalya Nazarova, Russian sprinter
• 1980 » Louis-Jean Cormier, Canadian singer and songwriter
• 1981 » Anthony Ervin, American swimmer
• 1981 » Ben Zobrist, American baseball player
• 1981 » Isaac Slade, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1981 » Jason Manford, English actor, screenwriter, and television host
• 1981 » Robert Copeland, Australian footballer
• 1982 » Hasan Kabze, Turkish footballer
• 1982 » Sten Lassmann, Estonian pianist

• 1969 » Allan Haines Loughead, American engineer, co-founded the Lockheed Corporation (b. 1889)
• 1969 » Paul Hawkins, Australian race car driver (b. 1937)
• 1974 » Silvio Moser, Swiss race car driver (b. 1941)
• 1976 » Martin Heidegger, German philosopher and academic (b. 1889)
• 1978 » Cybele Andrianou, Greek actress (b. 1887)
• 1979 » George Brent, Irish-American actor (b. 1904)
• 1984 » Elizabeth Peer, American journalist (b. 1936)
• 1989 » Don Revie, English footballer and manager (b. 1927)
• 1994 » Sonny Sharrock, American guitarist (b. 1940)
• 1995 » Friz Freleng, American animator, director, and producer (b. 1906)

1. Jan
2. Jeroen
3. Mark
4. Peter
5. Johannes
6. Michael
7. Maarten
8. Hendrik
9. Robert
10. Sander
11. David
12. Dennis
13. Willem
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 12 » The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) takes place: The STS-1 mission.
• April 26 » Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.
• June 16 » US President Ronald Reagan awards the Congressional Gold Medal to Ken Taylor, Canada's former ambassador to Iran, for helping six Americans escape from Iran during the hostage crisis of 1979–81; he is the first foreign citizen bestowed the honor.
• August 25 » Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn.
• September 3 » The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, an international bill of rights for women, is instituted by the United Nations.
• September 18 » The Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.

The temperature on May 26, 1981 was between 7.1 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.