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• Sebastiaan Marinus Sanders, Utrecht († 1982)
• Robert Wayne Young, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, United States († 1981)
• Jamie Lynn Nuffer († 1998)
• Vincent Gabriel de Bruijne, Veendam
• levenloos of direct overleden kind Koek († 1981)
• Rilana Eijkenboom, Maastricht († 2023)
• Mark Cornelius Bouter († 2017)
• Titia Nauta

• Catharine Prince (73), Holland, Ottawa County, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Antje Luitjens Venema (100), Doezum
• Arendje van Rhijn (75), Leiderdorp
• Callie Louise Clements (62), Beaumont (Jefferson, Texas, USA)
• Antonia Josephina Raijmakers (68), Neerpelt in België
• Adriaan (Ad) Wilbrink (61), Eindhoven
• Abe Falkena (93), Lebanon, Sioux County, Iowa
• Antje Backer (83), 's-Gravenzande, Nederland
• Adrianus (Adriaan Wilbrink , Ad) (61), Geldrop
• Anna Maria Wilhelmina Lambertina Mestrum (85), Nijmegen, Gld, Nederland

• 1980 » Avi Strool, Israeli footballer
• 1980 » Mickey Higham, English rugby league player
• 1980 » Petri Virtanen, Finnish basketball player
• 1981 » Han Ye-seul, South Korean actress
• 1981 » Jennifer Tisdale, American actress and singer
• 1981 » Kristaps Valters, Latvian basketball player
• 1981 » Lucy Aharish, Israeli journalist and actress
• 1981 » Sebastián Decoud, Argentinian tennis player
• 1982 » Alessandro Cibocchi, Italian footballer
• 1982 » Arvydas Eitutavičius, Lithuanian basketball player

• 1967 » John Cockcroft, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1968 » Franchot Tone, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1905)
• 1970 » Jimi Hendrix, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1942)
• 1974 » Amanat Ali Khan, Pakistani classical singer (b. 1922)
• 1975 » Fairfield Porter, American painter and critic (b. 1907)
• 1977 » Paul Bernays, English-Swiss mathematician and philosopher (b. 1888)
• 1980 » Katherine Anne Porter, American short story writer, novelist, and essayist (b. 1890)
• 1987 » Américo Tomás, Portuguese admiral and politician, 14th President of Portugal (b. 1894)
• 1988 » Alan Watt, Australian public servant and diplomat, Australian Ambassador to Japan (b. 1901)
• 1992 » Mohammad Hidayatullah, Indian lawyer, judge, and politician, 6th Vice President of India (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 15 » Pope John Paul II receives a delegation from Solidarity (Polish trade union) at the Vatican led by Lech Wałęsa.
• June 7 » The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.
• August 3 » Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front – Suxxali Reew Mi.
• October 21 » Andreas Papandreou becomes Prime Minister of Greece, ending an almost 50-year-long system of power dominated by conservative forces.
• December 11 » El Mozote massacre: Armed forces in El Salvador kill an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign during the Salvadoran Civil War.
• December 19 » Sixteen lives are lost when the Penlee lifeboat goes to the aid of the stricken coaster Union Star in heavy seas.

The temperature on September 18, 1981 was between 12.2 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 3.6 mm of rain during 3.5 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.