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• Bart Bartholomeeussen, Zoersel, Antwerpen, Belgie († 1982)
• Johan (Hansje) Gerrit Albert Olthoff, Voorschoten († 1982)
• Rebecca L. Stijf, USA
• Robert Matthew Dougard, Maywood, Bergen, New Jersey, Verenigde Staten († 2003)

• Clifford Gerald Pinkey (67), Bellingham-Washington (USA)
• Christina Furster (52)
• Adele Niehus (63), Münster
• Adrie Kapitein (58), Etten-Leur,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aalbert Vastenhout (86)
• Albert Draaisma (66), Sneek, Nederland
• Antonius Johannes Meijeren (80), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Agnes Scheiffer (82)
• Maria Johanna Konter (78), Amsterdam
• Bastiana Flohil (82), Valkenisse

• 1979 » Doni, Brazilian footballer
• 1980 » Luke O'Donnell, Australian rugby league player
• 1980 » Niall Breslin, Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and footballer
• 1980 » Sonia Sui, Taiwanese model and actress
• 1981 » Michael Fishman, American actor and producer
• 1981 » Olivier Pla, French racing driver
• 1982 » Heath Miller, American football player
• 1982 » Mark Renshaw, Australian cyclist
• 1982 » Robinson Canó, Dominican baseball player
• 1982 » Tim Erfen, German footballer

• 1979 » Mieko Kamiya, Japanese psychiatrist and author (b. 1914)
• 1979 » Nadia Boulanger, French composer and educator (b. 1887)
• 1982 » Richard Hugo, American poet (b. 1923)
• 1985 » Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian soprano and educator (b. 1894)
• 1986 » Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian-American physiologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893)
• 1986 » Jane Dornacker, American actress and singer (b. 1947)
• 1986 » Thorgeir Stubø, Norwegian guitarist and composer (b. 1943)
• 1986 » Ye Jianying, Chinese general and politician, Head of State of the People's Republic of China (b. 1897)
• 1987 » Lino Ventura, Italian-French actor (b. 1919)
• 1988 » Cynthia Freeman, American author (b. 1915)

1. Jan
2. Jeroen
3. Mark
4. Peter
5. Johannes
6. Michael
7. Maarten
8. Hendrik
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. Johanna
6. Marieke
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.
• July 29 » After impeachment on June 21, Abolhassan Banisadr flees with Massoud Rajavi to Paris, in an Iranian Air Force Boeing 707, piloted by Colonel Behzad Moezzi, to form the National Council of Resistance of Iran.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.)
• December 14 » Arab–Israeli conflict: Israel's Knesset ratifies the Golan Heights Law, extending Israeli law to the occupied Golan Heights.
• December 31 » A coup d'état in Ghana removes President Hilla Limann's PNP government and replaces it with the Provisional National Defence Council led by Flight lieutenant Jerry Rawlings.

The temperature on October 22, 1981 was between 3.8 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 22.7 mm of rain during 7.0 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.