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• Louise Carolien Antoinette Kwak

• Alfons Gerard Wydaeghe (67), Moorslede
• Bernardus Cornelis Jongens (93), Weesp, Netherlands
• Antonia NECKERBROECK (77), Ronse,9600,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Cornelia Schreuders (89)
• Biard Eclare Anderson (68), Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
• Annette B **** (63), Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Berendine Oostenbrug (87), Sibley, Osceola County, Iowa
• Abraham Bunyan Cobb (83), Toccoa, Stephens County, Georgia, United States of America
• Aaltje Velema (65), Winschoten (NL)
• Adolf Karel Nicolaas (Dolf) Versteegh (67), Uithuizen, Nederland

• 1979 » Francisco Fonseca, Mexican footballer
• 1979 » Primož Brezec, Slovenian basketball player
• 1980 » Shane Andrus, American football player
• 1981 » Luke Wilkshire, Australian footballer
• 1981 » Ridzuan Fatah Hasan, Singaporean footballer
• 1981 » Santi Kolk, Dutch footballer
• 1982 » Esra Gümüş, Turkish volleyball player
• 1982 » Gary Wilkinson, American basketball player
• 1982 » George Pettit, Canadian singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1982 » Tyson Chandler, American basketball player

• 1973 » Paul Hartman, American actor and dancer (b. 1904)
• 1974 » Vasily Shukshin, Russian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 1975 » K. Kamaraj, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1903)
• 1981 » Harry Golden, American journalist and author (b. 1902)
• 1981 » Hazel Scott, Trinidadian-American activist, actress, and musician (b. 1920)
• 1985 » Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)
• 1987 » Madeleine Carroll, English actress (b. 1906)
• 1987 » Peter Medawar, Brazilian-English biologist and zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
• 1988 » Alec Issigonis, Greek-English car designer, designed the Mini (b. 1906)
• 1988 » Hamengkubuwono IX, Indonesian politician, 2nd Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1912)

1. Jan
2. Jeroen
3. Mark
4. Peter
5. Johannes
6. Michael
7. Maarten
8. Hendrik
9. Robert
10. Sander
11. David
12. Dennis
13. Willem
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. Jennifer
11. Suzanne
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.
• April 4 » Iran–Iraq War: The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force mounts an attack on H-3 Airbase and destroys about 50 Iraqi aircraft.
• May 21 » The Italian government releases the membership list of Propaganda Due, an illegal pseudo-Masonic lodge that was implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries.
• 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.
• June 27 » The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issues its "Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China", laying the blame for the Cultural Revolution on Mao Zedong.
• September 21 » Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom.
• November 25 » Pope John Paul II appoints Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (the future Pope Benedict XVI) Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

The temperature on October 2, 1981 was between 11.0 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 5.6 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (5%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.