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• Kristian Reijer Cornelis van der Vis, Den Burg (Texel) († 1990)
• Siona Hiddink († 2018)
• Kristian Reijer Cornelis van der Vis, Den Burg (Texel, NH) († 1990)

• Anna Sophia Joukje Teepe (43), Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Christiaan Josephus Pinxteren (76), 's-Gravenhage, Nederland
• Arnoldus Maria Schilders (77), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Berend Koops (93), -
• Anna L Akkerman (61), Sibley, Osceola County, Iowa
• Aimée Alexandrine Fadeau (95), Le Menoux, 36117, France
• * Hendrik (Henk) Blom (69), Rotterdam
• Adrianus Josephus van Dongen (78), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alberta Pannekoek (85)
• Arie (Arie) Hoogenboom (34)

• 1979 » Blue Adams, American football player and coach
• 1979 » Bohemia, Pakistani-American rapper and producer
• 1979 » Jekaterina Golovatenko, Estonian figure skater
• 1980 » Siiri Nordin, Finnish singer-songwriter
• 1980 » Tom Boonen, Belgian cyclist
• 1981 » Elena Dementieva, Russian tennis player
• 1981 » Keyshia Cole, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1981 » Radoslav Židek, Slovak snowboarder
• 1982 » Paulini, Fijian-Australian singer
• 1982 » Sachiko Yamada, Japanese swimmer

• 1976 » Carlo Gambino, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1902)
• 1978 » W. Eugene Smith, American photojournalist (b. 1918)
• 1980 » Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek footballer and volleyball player (b. 1896)
• 1980 » Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1900)
• 1981 » Philip Fotheringham-Parker, English race car driver (b. 1907)
• 1983 » Pat O'Brien, American actor (b. 1899)
• 1987 » Donald Wandrei, American author and poet (b. 1908)
• 1987 » Thomas Sankara, Burkinabe captain and politician, 5th President of Burkina Faso (b. 1949)
• 1988 » Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English pianist, composer, and critic (b. 1892)
• 1989 » Danilo Kiš, Serbian novelist, short story writer, essayist and translator. (b. 1935)

• 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".
• February 24 » The 6.7 M_s Gulf of Corinth earthquake affected Central Greece with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). Twenty-two people were killed, 400 were injured, and damage totaled $812million.
• April 9 » The U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USSGeorge Washington accidentally collides with the Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it.
• July 27 » While landing at Chihuahua International Airport, Aeromexico Flight 230 overshoots the runway. Thirty-two of the 66 passengers and crew on board the DC-9 are killed.
• 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.
• December 1 » Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308, a McDonnell Douglas MD-80, crashes in Corsica, killing all 180 people on board.

The temperature on October 15, 1981 was between 0.1 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.