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• Camiel Joseph VANTOURNHOUT (81), Roeselare
• Cornelia van Lenten (76), Texel
• Dirk Engberts (de) Ruiter (92)
• Bastiaaan BOENDER (63), Rotterdam
• Anneloes Borsen (3), Laren
• Abraham VAN DER BEEK (91), Opperdoes
• Anna Maria Florence Linssen (86), Tilburg
• Alida Martine Oosterwijk (58)
• Abraham van der Beek (91), Opperdoes, North Holland, Netherlands
• Antonia Gerritdina Nijboer (78), Zwolle

• 1978 » Carl Bussey, American soccer player
• 1978 » Takuya Kawaguchi, Japanese footballer
• 1979 » Andy Douglas, American wrestler
• 1979 » Jamar Beasley, American football player
• 1979 » Kim Yong-dae, South Korean footballer
• 1980 » Nyron Nosworthy, English footballer
• 1982 » Cameron Knowles, New Zealand footballer
• 1982 » Jeff Larish, American baseball player
• 1982 » Mauricio Victorino, Uruguayan footballer
• 1982 » Terrell Suggs, American football player

• 1971 » Chesty Puller, American general (b. 1898)
• 1971 » Tamanoumi Masahiro, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 51st Yokozuna (b. 1944)
• 1976 » Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author, screenwriter, and songwriter (b. 1897)
• 1977 » MacKinlay Kantor, American journalist, author, and screenwriter (b. 1904)
• 1983 » R. Fraser Armstrong, Canadian administrator and engineer (b. 1889)
• 1984 » Benno Schotz, Scottish sculptor and engineer (b. 1891)
• 1986 » Norm Cash, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1934)
• 1988 » Bonita Granville, American actress (b. 1923)
• 1989 » M. King Hubbert, American geologist and academic (b. 1904)
• 1991 » Redd Foxx, American actor and comedian (b. 1922)

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. Marieke
6. Johanna
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 28 » Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls in the United States helping to end the 1979 energy crisis and begin the 1980s oil glut.
• July 30 » As many as 50,000 demonstrators, mostly women and children, took to the streets in Łódź to protest food ration shortages in Communist Poland.
• August 24 » Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon.
• October 3 » The hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths.
• October 14 » Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected as the President of Egypt, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat.
• November 30 » Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe. (The meetings end inconclusively on December 17.)

The temperature on October 11, 1981 was between 5.8 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 11.7 mm of rain during 5.2 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.