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• Robert Houtveen, Barneveld (GE, NLD) († 1999)
• Elisabeth Maria Margaretha(Lisette) Groen in 't Wout, Alphen aan de Rijn
• Jurgen van de wiele, Dendermonde, België († 2000)

• Aaltje Wijgerts Schaap (83), Hilversum
• Barbara Henrica Martina van de Waterbeemd (67), Nuenen
• Anna Sartora Adels (90), Amsterdam
• Berentien Davids (86), Yde (Vries)
• Arij Post (88), Schiedam
• Bauke Reinders Oudega (98), Sneek, Friesland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Louise Fiene (89), Addison, DuPage Co., IL
• Antonius Johannes Kogelman (72)
• Antonius Adrianus Luijten (60), Etten-Leur
• Adrianus Ludovicus Jacobs (88), Haaren

• 1980 » Matt Holliday, American baseball player
• 1981 » Dylan Armstrong, Canadian shot putter and hammer thrower
• 1981 » El Hadji Diouf, Senegalese football player
• 1981 » Pitbull, American rapper and producer
• 1981 » Sean Lamont, Scottish rugby player
• 1981 » Vanessa Henke, German tennis player
• 1982 » Ari Pulkkinen, Finnish pianist and composer
• 1982 » Armando Galarraga, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1982 » Benjamin Agosto, American skater
• 1982 » Brett Lebda, American ice hockey player

• 1973 » Coleman Francis, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1919)
• 1973 » Ivan Petrovsky, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1901)
• 1974 » Harold D. Cooley, American lawyer and politician (b. 1897)
• 1981 » Graham Whitehead, English race car driver (b. 1922)
• 1982 » Red Smith, American journalist (b. 1905)
• 1983 » Armin Öpik, Estonian-Australian paleontologist and geologist (b. 1898)
• 1983 » Shepperd Strudwick, American actor (b. 1907)
• 1984 » Fazıl Küçük, Cypriot journalist and politician (b. 1906)
• 1987 » Ray Bolger, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1904)
• 1988 » Seán MacBride, Irish republican activist and politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)

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. Marieke
6. Johanna
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.
• February 23 » In Spain, Antonio Tejero attempts a coup d'état by capturing the Spanish Congress of Deputies.
• June 7 » The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.
• 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.
• November 23 » Iran–Contra affair: Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
• November 25 » Pope John Paul II appoints Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (the future Pope Benedict XVI) Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

The temperature on January 15, 1981 was between -0.9 °C and 4.3 °C and averaged 1.0 °C. There was 7.8 mm of rain during 4.9 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (15%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.