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• Anne Mechteld Bosch van Drakestein, Utrecht († 2008)
• Marcia Roca dos Santos († 2002)
• Antonia Maria Matthea van Stratum, Veghel
• Anne Mechteld Bosch van Drakenstein, Utrecht,Gemeente Utrecht,Utrecht,Netherlands († 2011)
• Iascaro Guedes Rodrigues Uchoa, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil († 2016)

• Cornelia van Tillo (56), Oude Tonge
• Arnoldus Johannes Claessens (73), Bilzen-Munsterbilzen, Provincie Limburg, België
• Camiel - Remi Denys (83), Kortrijk
• Cornelia Stolk (71), Sluiskil, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adriana Maria Leendertse (93), Middelburg, Nederland
• Brigitte Levy (68), Davis, Yolo County, California, Verenigde Staten
• Agnes Jane Ranney (89), Lansing, Ingham Co., MI
• * Willem van Krochten (69), Schiedam
• Arnolda Jacoba Joanna Mols (75), Tilburg
• Andries Vaartjes (56), Sneek

• 1976 » Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player
• 1976 » Vic Darchinyan, Armenian-Australian boxer
• 1977 » Sofi Oksanen, Finnish author and playwright
• 1979 » Aloe Blacc, American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, businessman and philanthropist.
• 1982 » Francisco Rodríguez, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1982 » Hannah Stockbauer, German swimmer
• 1983 » Edwin Encarnación, Dominican baseball player
• 1985 » Lewis Hamilton, English racing driver
• 1986 » Wayne Routledge, English footballer winger
• 1987 » Stefan Babović, Serbian footballer

• 1972 » John Berryman, American poet and scholar (b. 1914)
• 1981 » Alvar Lidell, English journalist and radio announcer(b. 1908)
• 1981 » Eric Robinson, Australian businessman and politician, 2nd Australian Minister for Finance (b. 1926)
• 1984 » Alfred Kastler, German-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1986 » Juan Rulfo, Mexican author, screenwriter, and photographer (b. 1917))
• 1988 » Trevor Howard, English actor (b. 1913)
• 1988 » Zara Cisco Brough, American Nipmuc Indian chief and fashion designer (b.1919)
• 1989 » Hirohito, Japanese emperor (b. 1901)
• 1990 » Bronko Nagurski, Canadian-American football player and wrestler (b. 1908)
• 1992 » Richard Hunt, American puppeteer and voice actor (b. 1951)

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. 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.
• January 10 » Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments
• April 9 » The U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USSGeorge Washington accidentally collides with the Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it.
• April 27 » Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
• May 12 » Francis Hughes, Provisional IRA hunger striker, dies in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland.
• May 25 » In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
• July 27 » While landing at Chihuahua International Airport, Aeromexico Flight 230 overshoots the runway. Thirty-two of the 66 passengers and crew on board the DC-9 are killed.

The temperature on January 7, 1981 was between -3.1 °C and 2.9 °C and averaged -0.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.