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• Sylvana Heins († 2023)
• David J. Schmerber, unbekannt († 2003)

• Anton C Buttke (71), Wilmot, Roberts County, South Dakota
• Adriana Cornelia Petronella Somers (86), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albertus Hendrik Tukkers (68)
• Aalt Neijmeijer (57), Zwolle
• Aaltje Nijhoff (81)
• Agnes Marie Gall (90), San Leandro, Alameda Co, CA
• Anna Hendrika Elisabeth van der Kamp (76), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Alma Grace KERNS (76), Wahroonga, New South Wales, Australia
• Andrew Rienstra (67)
• Albert Groen (73)

• 1979 » Jordan Pundik, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1979 » Steve Borthwick, English rugby player
• 1979 » Steven Agnew, Northern Irish politician
• 1980 » Ledley King, English footballer
• 1981 » Brian Kerr, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1981 » Conrad Smith, New Zealand rugby player
• 1981 » Giuseppe Lanzone, American rower
• 1981 » Sun Tiantian, Chinese tennis player
• 1981 » Tom Guiry, American actor
• 1983 » Alex Brosque, Australian footballer

• 1973 » Peter Aufschnaiter, Austrian mountaineer, geographer, and cartographer (b. 1899)
• 1978 » Nancy Spungen, American figure of the 1970s punk rock scene (b. 1958)
• 1984 » Anthony Berry, English politician (b. 1925)
• 1985 » Johnny Olson, American radio host and game show announcer (b. 1910)
• 1985 » Ricky Wilson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1953)
• 1987 » Alf Landon, American lieutenant and politician, 26th Governor of Kansas (b. 1887)
• 1987 » Fahri Korutürk, Turkish commander and politician, 6th President of Turkey (b. 1903)
• 1988 » Coby Whitmore, American painter and illustrator (b. 1913)
• 1988 » Ruth Manning-Sanders, Welsh-English poet and author (b. 1886)
• 1989 » Jay Ward, American animator, producer, and screenwriter, founded Jay Ward Productions (b. 1920)

• 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 8 » A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".
• May 12 » Francis Hughes, Provisional IRA hunger striker, dies in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland.
• July 7 » US President Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
• September 1 » A coup d'état in the Central African Republic overthrows President David Dacko.
• September 18 » The Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.
• September 26 » Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.

The temperature on October 12, 1981 was between 3.6 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 18.9 mm of rain during 7.8 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.