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• Anne Christine van Dorp, Dordrecht
• Marjolein Marie Francine Sorée, Tegelen, Limburg, Nederland († 1981)
• Liesbeth Coenegrachts († 2024)

• Catharina Tienkamp (60), Savana (Canada) Savana
• Albert Jans Smink (60), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Cornelia Michaël (65)
• Bernardus Albertus Hendrik van der Heijden (Heyden) (63), Gorinchem, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Boudewijn MOL (86), 's-Gravenpolder, Zeeland, Nederland
• Cornelis Jan Kruijer (54), Appingedam (gem. Eemsdelta)
• Diederik Wilhelmus Gerardus van Lieshout (73), Helmond, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina Antonia van Toren (69), Breda, Noord Brabant, Nederland
• Egbert (Eggi) Rietveld (66), Epe
• Bernardus Albertus Hendrik van der Heijden (63), Gorinchem

• 1979 » Andrew-Lee Potts, English actor, director, and producer
• 1980 » Ben Foster, American actor
• 1980 » Kaine Robertson, New Zealand-Italian rugby player
• 1980 » Nadejda Ostrovskaya, Belarusian tennis player
• 1981 » Amanda Beard, American swimmer
• 1981 » Angelika dela Cruz, Filipino actress and singer
• 1981 » Georgios Fotakis, Greek footballer
• 1981 » Jonathan Brown, Australian footballer
• 1982 » Ariel Lin, Taiwanese actress and singer
• 1982 » Chelan Simmons, Canadian model and actress

• 1969 » Pops Foster, American bassist and trumpet player (b. 1892)
• 1971 » Arne Tiselius, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1971 » Duane Allman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1946)
• 1977 » Chiyonoyama Masanobu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 41st Yokozuna (b. 1926)
• 1980 » Giorgio Borġ Olivier, Maltese lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1911)
• 1981 » Georges Brassens, French singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1921)
• 1986 » Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor, singer, and academic (b. 1913)
• 1987 » Woody Herman, American singer, clarinet player, saxophonist, and bandleader (b. 1913)
• 1988 » Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Indian author and activist (b. 1903)
• 1993 » Lipman Bers, Latvian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1914)

• 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 15 » Pope John Paul II receives a delegation from Solidarity (Polish trade union) at the Vatican led by Lech Wałęsa.
• February 8 » Twenty-one association football spectators are trampled to death at Karaiskakis Stadium in Neo Faliro, Greece, after a football match between Olympiacos F.C. and AEK Athens F.C.
• 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.
• 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 22 » Far Eastern Air Transport Flight 103 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes in Sanyi Township, Miaoli County, Taiwan. All 110 people on board 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.

The temperature on October 29, 1981 was between 7.1 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 8.3 mm of rain during 4.8 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (14%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.