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• François Christiaan Ekkebus, Den Helder († 2014)
• Jason Paul Nyboer († 1981)
• Bastiaantje Maaike van Roekel, Rhenen, Utrecht, Nederland († 1992)

• Cornelia (Cor) Sintemaartensdijk (77), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alida Wagemaker (86), Bergen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Bruin (70), Bergen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Birdice P. Burns (58)
• Barendina van Eijnsbergen (76), Berg en Dal, GL, NL
• Adriana Catharina Gezina Hoogteijling (70), Apeldoorn
• Cornelia Johanna Groen (84), Amersfoort
• Arne Wilhelm Hermansson (68), Malmö-Malmöhus län
• Cornelis Dirk Ven (82), Amsterdam
• Aleida van den Brink- (73), Nijmegen, Nederland

• 1979 » Daniel Vettori, New Zealand cricketer and coach
• 1979 » Rosamund Pike, English actress
• 1980 » Chanda Gunn, American ice hockey player and coach
• 1980 » Marat Safin, Russian tennis player and politician
• 1981 » Alicia Molik, Australian tennis player and sportscaster
• 1981 » Tony Woodcock, New Zealand rugby player
• 1982 » Eva Asderaki, Greek tennis umpire
• 1983 » Carlo Colaiacovo, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1983 » Gavin Floyd, American baseball player
• 1983 » Paulo Colaiacovo, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1971 » Jacobo Árbenz, Guatemalan captain and politician, President of Guatemala (b. 1913)
• 1972 » Mahalia Jackson, American singer (b. 1911)
• 1973 » William Nolde, American colonel (b. 1929)
• 1974 » Georgios Grivas, Cypriot general (b. 1898)
• 1975 » Bill Walsh, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1913)
• 1983 » Louis de Funès, French actor and screenwriter (b. 1914)
• 1986 » Lilli Palmer, German-American actress (b. 1914)
• 1987 » Norman McLaren, Scottish-Canadian animator and director (b. 1914)
• 1988 » Massa Makan Diabaté, Malian historian, author, and playwright (b. 1938)
• 1989 » Thomas Sopwith, English ice hockey player and pilot (b. 1888)

• 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.
• June 5 » The "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report" of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that five people in Los Angeles, California, have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.
• July 7 » US President Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
• August 5 » President Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work.
• October 14 » Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected as the President of Egypt, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat.
• 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.
• November 30 » Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe. (The meetings end inconclusively on December 17.)

The temperature on January 27, 1981 was between 3.3 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.