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• Harm Bles
• NN van Royen, Haarlem († 1981)
• Julien Béatrice Maurice SKA, Dinant, 5500, Namur, Belgique († 1981)

• Bernardus Wilhelmus LEUVERINK (69), Doetinchem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alida van der Lee (82), Utrecht
• Ben van Ravenstein (54), Breda
• Andries Bazelmans (76), Eindhoven
• Antonia Maria Klein Overmeen (89)
• Leentje Breeuwsma (87), makkum
• Anna Maria Henrica Mutsaers (86), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriaan Slabber (75), Goes, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adriaantje van der Graaf (57)
• van Eijnatten (85), Breda

• 1980 » Gervasio Deferr, Spanish gymnast
• 1980 » James Franklin, New Zealand cricketer
• 1980 » Karthik, Indian singer-songwriter
• 1980 » Luciana Salazar, Argentinian model, actress, and singer
• 1980 » Sergio Bernardo Almirón, Argentinian footballer
• 1981 » Anushka Shetty, Indian actress
• 1981 » Muhammad Hassan, American wrestler and educator
• 1981 » Nana Katase, Japanese model, actress, and singer
• 1981 » Rina Uchiyama, Japanese actress and model
• 1982 » Pascal Leclaire, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1974 » Eric Linklater, Welsh-Scottish author and academic (b. 1899)
• 1975 » Piero Dusio, Italian footballer, businessman and race car driver (b. 1899)
• 1978 » Gene Tunney, American boxer and actor (b. 1897)
• 1978 » Jivraj Narayan Mehta, Indian surgeon and politician, 6th Chief Minister of Gujarat (b. 1887)
• 1980 » İlhan Erdost, Turkish publisher (b. 1944)
• 1980 » Steve McQueen, American actor and producer (b. 1930)
• 1981 » Will Durant, American historian and philosopher (b. 1885)
• 1983 » Germaine Tailleferre, French pianist and composer (b. 1892)
• 1986 » Tracy Pew, Australian bass player (b. 1957)
• 1988 » Bill Hoest, American cartoonist (b. 1926)

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. Dennis
14. Pieter
15. Patrick
16. Paul

1. Maria
2. Linda
3. Kim
4. Esther
5. Marieke
6. Johanna
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.
• 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".
• January 21 » Production of the iconic DeLorean sports car begins in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
• March 11 » Hundreds of students protest in the University of Pristina in Kosovo, then part of Yugoslavia, to give their province more political rights. The protests then became a nationwide movement.
• April 11 » A massive riot in Brixton, south London results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
• April 12 » The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) takes place: The STS-1 mission.
• June 7 » The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.

The temperature on November 7, 1981 was between -2.7 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.