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• Derk (Dennis) Akkerman, Veendam

• A.J. van Mannekes (65)
• Aaltje Ton (77), Utrecht
• Carl Virgil Ivie (81), Denison, Grayson, Texas, United States
• Antonius Hendrikus Spoor (70), Arnhem
• Albertus Willem Leeuwis (45), Renkum (Gel)
• Alphons Christiaan HEINZE (53), Alkmaar, NH, NL 1825 DH 27
• Adriana Josephina Maria de Haas (0), Rosmalen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Beertje Koster (66), Hattem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albertus Willem Johannes Leeuwis (45), Renkum (Gelderland)
• Anna Moullé (85), Amsterdam

• 1979 » Keith Buckley, American singer-songwriter
• 1979 » Mahé Drysdale, New Zealand rower
• 1980 » Courtney Anderson, American football player
• 1980 » Otis Grigsby, American football player
• 1980 » Vladimir Radmanović, Serbian basketball player
• 1981 » André Lotterer, German racing driver
• 1981 » DJ Tukutz, South Korean DJ, producer, and songwriter
• 1981 » Juan Martín Fernández Lobbe, Argentine rugby player
• 1981 » Marcus Banks, American basketball player
• 1981 » Mark Wallace, Welsh-English cricketer

• 1974 » George Brunies, American trombonist (b. 1902)
• 1974 » Louise Fitzhugh, American author and illustrator (b. 1928)
• 1975 » Elizabeth Taylor (novelist), English novelist, (b. 1912)
• 1975 » Francisco Franco, Spanish general and dictator, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1892)
• 1975 » Roger D. Branigin, American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 42nd Governor of Indiana (b. 1902)
• 1975 » Rudolf Kinau, Low German writer (b. 1887)
• 1976 » Basil Spence, Indian-Scottish architect and academic, designed the Coventry Cathedral (b. 1907)
• 1983 » Tom Evans, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)
• 1985 » Juan Arvizu, Mexican lyric opera tenor and bolero vocalist (b. 1900)
• 1985 » Stepin Fetchit, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1907)

• 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 28 » Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls in the United States helping to end the 1979 energy crisis and begin the 1980s oil glut.
• 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.
• September 3 » The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, an international bill of rights for women, is instituted by the United Nations.
• September 15 » The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
• November 25 » Pope John Paul II appoints Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (the future Pope Benedict XVI) Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
• December 1 » Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308, a McDonnell Douglas MD-80, crashes in Corsica, killing all 180 people on board.

The temperature on November 19, 1981 was between 2.6 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (86%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.