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• Juliana Edenia Antonia Guillermo
• Paul Smits, Eindhoven
• Juliana Edina Antonia Guillermo, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• patrick gommans, helden

• Anna Maria Christina Zandkuil (79), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Archie van Gorden (78), Neillsville, Wisconsin
• Bernardus Elbertse (72), Utrecht
• Cornelis de Graaf (38)
• Bart Bultman (82), Zwolle, Nederland
• Anna Marie Brooks (90), Battle Ground, Clark County, Washington, 98604, VS
• Berend Logtenberg (83), Epe, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cornelia Janmaat (74), Almelo
• Dirk Kruijmel (84), Santpoort
• Charles André Albert Oostenbroek (92), Paris 12

• 1979 » Gregori Chad Petree, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1979 » Paul Burchill, English wrestler
• 1980 » Nick Cannon, American actor, rapper, and producer
• 1981 » Raffi Torres, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1981 » Vladimir Kisenkov, Russian footballer
• 1982 » Annemiek van Vleuten, Dutch cyclist
• 1982 » Miloš Pavlović, Serbian race car driver
• 1982 » Phil Mustard, English cricketer
• 1983 » Mario Cassano, Italian footballer
• 1983 » Michael Fraser, Scottish footballer

• 1977 » Giorgos Papasideris, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1902)
• 1978 » Bertha Parker Pallan, American archaeologist (b. 1907)
• 1979 » Brian Edmund Baker, English air marshal (b. 1896)
• 1979 » Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian politician (b. 1902)
• 1982 » Fernando Lamas, Argentinian-American actor and director (b. 1916)
• 1982 » Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, English runner and politician, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
• 1983 » Joan Hackett, American actress (b. 1934)
• 1985 » Gordon Welchman, English-American mathematician and scholar (b. 1906)
• 1985 » Malcolm Ross, American captain, physicist, and balloonist (b. 1919)
• 1987 » Konstantinos Tsatsos, Greek scholar and politician, 2nd President of Greece (b. 1899)

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. 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.
• January 10 » Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments
• February 6 » The National Resistance Army of Uganda launches an attack on a Ugandan Army installation in the central Mubende District to begin the Ugandan Bush War.
• February 13 » A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky.
• May 21 » Transamerica Corporation agrees to sell United Artists to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for $380million after the box office failure of the 1980 film Heaven's Gate.
• August 25 » Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn.
• 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 8, 1981 was between 8.9 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.