About the day » Thursday October 1, 1981Calender converter

• Steven Henry van Hout
• Jessica Lynn van Wyk
• Annemarie Hoogendyk, Virginia, South Africa
• Thomas Dettmer, Papenburg († 2023)

• Adriana Martha Hendrika Reijers (74), Woudrichem, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina Helena Bakker (73), Leiden
• Christina van IJmeren (79)
• Andriesje Ebeles van Eijck (84), Heerenveen, Gem. Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland
• Corey, Ian Helsloot (0), Dunedin Central, Otago (Nw Zealand)
• Arnoldus Bonne Heijtink (74), Gemeente Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bernardus Johannes Blom (75), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Clyde Herman Ashby (81), Denver, Adams, Colorado, Verenigde Staten
• Antonius Reijnders (66), Rotterdam,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia van den Heuvel (82), Leidschendam

• 1980 » Antonio Narciso, Italian footballer
• 1980 » Sarah Drew, American actress
• 1981 » Arnau Riera, Spanish footballer
• 1981 » David Yelldell, German-American soccer player
• 1981 » Gaby Mudingayi, Belgian footballer
• 1981 » Júlio Baptista, Brazilian footballer
• 1981 » Johnny Oduya, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1981 » Tom Donnelly, New Zealand rugby player
• 1982 » Aleksandar Đuričić, Serbian author and playwright
• 1982 » Haruna Babangida, Nigerian footballer

• 1970 » Raúl Riganti, Argentinian race car driver (b. 1893)
• 1972 » Louis Leakey, Kenyan-English archaeologist and paleontologist (b. 1903)
• 1974 » Spyridon Marinatos, Greek archaeologist and academic (b. 1901)
• 1975 » Al Jackson, Jr., American drummer, songwriter, and producer (b. 1935)
• 1984 » Walter Alston, American baseball player and manager (b. 1911)
• 1985 » E. B. White, American essayist and journalist (b. 1899)
• 1985 » Ninian Sanderson, Scottish race car driver (b. 1925)
• 1986 » Archie League, American air traffic controller (b. 1907)
• 1988 » Sacheverell Sitwell, English author, poet, and critic (b. 1897)
• 1990 » Curtis LeMay, American general (b. 1906)

• 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.
• 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.
• April 26 » Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.
• May 12 » Francis Hughes, Provisional IRA hunger striker, dies in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland.
• 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 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.
• August 12 » The IBM Personal Computer is released.

The temperature on October 1, 1981 was between 9.3 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 10.2 hours of sunshine (87%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.