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• Ebel Kremer († 1981)
• Ebel Kremer († 1981)

• Andries Bijl (74), Pernis
• Charles Claude Crisman (76), Rapid City, Pennington County, South Dakota
• Adrianus Jacobus Spapen (71), Breda
• Betje Nanninga (91), Nieuw Loosdrecht
• Anna Maria Heesters (49), Tilburg
• Benjamin Verdouw (62), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Kepers (73), Roosendaal (Roosendaal en Nispen) (Noord-Brabant)
• Christiaan Johan MICHELS (79), Oisterwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Christiaan Johan Michels (79), Oisterwijk
• Anne Jakob Koops (62), Siddeburen

• 1979 » Aaliyah, American singer and actress († 2001)
• 1979 » Brenden Morrow, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1979 » Jason Ward, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 » Albert Pujols, Dominican-American baseball player
• 1980 » Lin-Manuel Miranda, American actor, playwright, and composer
• 1981 » Bobby Zamora, English footballer, striker
• 1981 » Jamie Lundmark, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1981 » Paul Rofe, Australian cricketer
• 1982 » Preston, English singer-songwriter
• 1982 » Tuncay, Turkish footballer

• 1972 » Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor, created Alvin and the Chipmunks (b. 1919)
• 1972 » Teller Ammons, American soldier and politician, 28th Governor of Colorado (b. 1895)
• 1973 » Edgar Sampson, American musician and composer (b. 1907)
• 1975 » Israel Abramofsky, Russian-American painter (b. 1888)
• 1978 » A. V. Kulasingham, Sri Lankan journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1890)
• 1981 » Bernard Lee, English actor (b. 1908)
• 1983 » Virginia Mauret, American musician and dancer
• 1986 » Herbert W. Armstrong, American evangelist, author, and publisher (b. 1892)
• 1987 » Bertram Wainer, Australian physician and activist (b. 1928)
• 1988 » Andrija Artuković, Croatian politician, war criminal, and Porajmos perpetrator, 1st Minister of Interior of the Independent State of Croatia (b. 1899)

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. 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 8 » Twenty-one association football spectators are trampled to death at Karaiskakis Stadium in Neo Faliro, Greece, after a football match between Olympiacos F.C. and AEK Athens F.C.
• April 3 » The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.
• May 24 » Ecuadorian president Jaime Roldós Aguilera, his wife, and his presidential committee die in an aircraft accident while travelling from Quito to Zapotillo minutes after the president gave a famous speech regarding the 24 de mayo anniversary of the Battle of Pichincha.
• August 24 » Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon.
• September 26 » Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
• October 20 » Two police officers and an armored car guard are killed during an armed robbery carried out by members of the Black Liberation Army and Weather Underground.

The temperature on January 16, 1981 was between -2.7 and 3.7 °C. There was 5.1 mm of rain during 6.1 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (11%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.