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• Trijntje Geertruida (Trea) van den Hof, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland

• Aaltje Nicolai (89), -
• Aalbert Schuit (78), Putten
• "Alice" Mary Victoria Augusta Pauline von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha (97), London
• Alice Mary Victoria von Sachsen Coburg und Gotha , Princess Alice of Albany (97), Kensington Palace, Londres, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni
• Alice Campbell (97), London, London, England
• Alice van ALBANIE (97), Kensington, Greater London, England, Verenigd Koninkrijk
• Adriana Christina Maria van der Drift (79)
• Aart van Wijncoop (90), Putten, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alice van SAKSEN-COBURG EN GOTHA (97), Kensington Palace, London
• Alice Mary Victoria Auguste Pauline of England (97), Kensington Palace, London (GB)

• 1978 » Dimitra Kalentzou, Greek basketball player
• 1980 » Angela Ruggiero, American ice hockey player
• 1980 » Bryan Clay, American decathlete
• 1980 » David Tyree, American football player
• 1980 » Kurt Vile, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1980 » Mary Wineberg, American sprinter
• 1981 » Eli Manning, American football player
• 1982 » Lasse Nilsson, Swedish footballer
• 1982 » Park Ji-yoon, South Korean singer and actress
• 1982 » Peter Clarke, English footballer

• 1972 » Mohan Rakesh, Indian author and playwright (b. 1925)
• 1975 » James McCormack, American general (b. 1910)
• 1975 » Victor Kraft, Austrian philosopher from the Vienna Circle (b. 1880)
• 1977 » William Gropper, American lithographer, cartoonist, and painter (b. 1897)
• 1979 » Conrad Hilton, American businessman, founded the Hilton Hotels & Resorts (b. 1887)
• 1980 » George Sutherland Fraser, Scottish poet and academic (b. 1915)
• 1980 » Joy Adamson, Austrian-Kenyan author (b. 1910)
• 1981 » Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (b. 1883)
• 1988 » Rose Ausländer, Ukrainian-German poet and author (b. 1901)
• 1989 » Sergei Sobolev, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1909)

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. Johanna
6. Marieke
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 6 » The National Resistance Army of Uganda launches an attack on a Ugandan Army installation in the central Mubende District to begin the Ugandan Bush War.
• March 5 » The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1​⁄₂ million units around the world.
• March 30 » U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.; three others are wounded in the same incident.
• April 25 » More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of at the Tsuruga Nuclear Power Plant in Japan.
• September 21 » Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom.
• October 3 » The hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths.

The temperature on January 3, 1981 was between 3.8 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 7.5 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (31%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.