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• Elma Inge Brons, Groningen († 2003)
• Curtis Duane Folkerts, fortasse, somewhere in IA or MN († 2008)
• -levenloos- Brummel, Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland († 1981)
• Margaretha Maria Quist, Sint Philipsland gem. Tholen, Zeeland, Nederland NED († 2002)
• Marc Rabsilber († 1981)
• Ingrid Zondervan, Leiden

• Chris Hovens (71), Tegelen,, Limburg, Nederland
• Antonius Cornelis Joseph van Kampen (70), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anthonie Augustijn (80)
• Charles Dennis Davidson ** (85), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• Basil Jeffery (71), Dubois, Indiana, Verenigde Staten
• Antonius Cornelis Joseph van Kampen (70), Eindhoven,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Andries Krol (97)
• Christiaan Pietersen (93), Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Alexandra Joanna Maria van der Heyden van Doornenburg (76), Doetingem
• Annigjen Netters (90), Hellendoorn

• 1979 » Adrian Mutu, Romanian footballer
• 1979 » Sarah Polley, Canadian actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1979 » Seol Ki-hyeon, South Korean footballer and manager
• 1979 » Stipe Pletikosa, Croatian footballer
• 1980 » Adam Goodes, Australian footballer
• 1980 » Rachel Nichols, American actress and producer
• 1981 » Jeff Francis, Canadian baseball player
• 1981 » Trent Waterhouse, Australian rugby league player
• 1982 » Gaby Hoffmann, American actress
• 1983 » Jon Daly, Irish footballer

• 1976 » Robert Forgan, Scottish-English physician and politician (b. 1891)
• 1976 » Zhou Enlai, Chinese soldier and politician, 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898)
• 1979 » Sara Carter, American singer-songwriter and harp player (b. 1898)
• 1980 » John Mauchly, American physicist and academic (b. 1907)
• 1981 » Matthew Beard, American actor (b. 1925)
• 1982 » Grégoire Aslan, Swiss-English actor and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 1983 » Gale Page, American actress (b. 1910)
• 1983 » Gerhard Barkhorn, German general and pilot (b. 1919)
• 1983 » Tom McCall, American journalist and politician, 30th Governor of Oregon (b. 1913)
• 1984 » Eerik Kumari, Estonian ornithologist and academic (b. 1912)

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.
• January 1 » Greece is admitted into the European Community.
• 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.
• May 21 » Transamerica Corporation agrees to sell United Artists to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for $380million after the box office failure of the 1980 film Heaven's Gate.
• June 25 » Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
• August 3 » Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front – Suxxali Reew Mi.
• September 15 » The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.

The temperature on January 8, 1981 was between -4.0 °C and 2.7 °C and averaged 0.4 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.