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• Jeroen Kotterink († 2000)
• Erwin Brinkman, Nieuwleusen († 2023)
• Arnoldus SMOLDERS, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland,NL († 1984)
• Maëchel (Michaël) CASTELEIN, Oostende († 2010)

• Coert Touwslager (74), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Dirkje Gerlaken de Jong (58), Driebergen, Utrecht, Nederland
• Arend Stedema (80)
• Albert Adolf Joseph Bogaarts, Rotterdam
• Coert Touwslager (74), Amsterdam Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Christina Maria Johanna Eijkholt (96), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Edna Desotelle (82)
• ARIE VERKADE (70)
• Benedictus Martens (74), Stekene (B), België
• Anna Paulowna Grijsen (89), Oudekerk

• 1980 » Jackie Trail, American tennis player
• 1980 » Satoshi Ohno, Japanese singer
• 1981 » Gina Kingsbury, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1981 » Jon Ryan, Canadian football player
• 1981 » Natalie Gauci, Australian singer and pianist
• 1981 » Natasha Bedingfield, English singer-songwriter and producer
• 1981 » Stephan Andersen, Danish footballer
• 1982 » Keith Ballard, American ice hockey player
• 1983 » Chris Hughes, American publisher and businessman, co-founded Facebook
• 1983 » Emiri Katō, Japanese voice actress and singer

• 1977 » Yoshibayama Junnosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 43rd Yokozuna (b. 1920)
• 1978 » Ford Beebe, American director and screenwriter (b. 1888)
• 1978 » Frank Rosolino, American trombonist (b. 1926)
• 1981 » Max Euwe, Dutch chess player, mathematician, and author (b. 1901)
• 1981 » Pete DePaolo, American race car driver (b. 1898)
• 1982 » Juhan Aavik, Estonian composer and conductor (b. 1884)
• 1985 » Vivien Thomas, American surgeon and academic (b. 1910)
• 1986 » Betico Croes, Aruban activist and politician (b. 1938)
• 1987 » J. P. Guilford, American psychologist and academic (b. 1897)
• 1987 » Thomas George Lanphier, Jr., American colonel and pilot (b. 1915)

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. 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 18 » Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs).
• March 5 » The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1​⁄₂ million units around the world.
• April 14 » STS-1: The first operational Space Shuttle, Columbia completes its first test flight.
• May 26 » Italian Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of the pseudo-masonic lodge P2 (Propaganda Due).
• June 13 » At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.
• October 22 » The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) for its strike the previous August.

The temperature on November 26, 1981 was between 5.6 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.