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• Antje Meendering, Sellingen
• Bart Rennen, Sint-Truiden, België († 2020)
• Michel Bosch († 1986)

• Arthur Guy ST-HILAIRE (69), Montréal, Québec
• Bernice Bauer (65), Pottstown, Montgomery Co. Pennsylvania, United States
• Anne Rinzes Hof (80), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Bernardus Bartholomeus (Bart) Sibon (66), Millingen
• Akke Theos Woudstra (78)
• Anne Rinzes Hof (80), Utrecht
• Antonia Cornelia Rommers (77), Welberg
• Catharina van Schilt (79), Bergen op Zoom
• Catharina van Hattem (88)
• Anton Maas (61), Schuinesloot (Ambt Hardenberg)

• 1980 » Amir Nussbaum, Israeli footballer
• 1980 » Fábio Pinto, Brazilian footballer
• 1980 » Filip Bobek, Polish actor
• 1980 » Ibrahim Fazeel, Maldivian footballer
• 1980 » Kert Kütt, Estonian footballer
• 1980 » Lucy Akello, Ugandan social worker and politician
• 1980 » Pāvels Doroševs, Latvian football goalkeeper
• 1980 » Sarah Lovell, Australian politician
• 1981 » Darius Miles, American basketball player
• 1981 » Zachery Ty Bryan, American actor

• 1974 » Oskar Schindler, Czech-German businessman (b. 1908)
• 1975 » Noon Meem Rashid, Pakistani poet (b. 1910)
• 1976 » Walter Warlimont, German general (b. 1894)
• 1978 » Jacques Brel, Belgian singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1929)
• 1982 » Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt, German historian and physician (b. 1893)
• 1985 » Emílio Garrastazu Médici, Brazilian general and politician, 28th President of Brazil (b. 1905)
• 1987 » Clare Boothe Luce, American author, playwright, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Italy (b. 1903)
• 1987 » William P. Murphy, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1988 » Felix Wankel, German engineer, invented the Wankel engine (b. 1902)
• 1989 » Yusuf Atılgan, Turkish author and playwright (b. 1921)

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. Jennifer
11. Suzanne
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.
• March 30 » U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.; three others are wounded in the same incident.
• June 27 » The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issues its "Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China", laying the blame for the Cultural Revolution on Mao Zedong.
• June 28 » A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of the Islamic Republican Party.
• July 29 » A worldwide television audience of over 700million people watch the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral in London.
• August 25 » Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn.
• September 1 » A coup d'état in the Central African Republic overthrows President David Dacko.

The temperature on October 9, 1981 was between 10.1 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 6.1 mm of rain during 3.2 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (13%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.