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• Tieknie Terpstra, Warnsveld

• Adriaan Pieter (Adrian) Wezel (Wilson) (94), Middletown-Middlesex Connecticut, Verenigde Staten
• Anje Prins (84)
• antonius johannes van steen (73), Effen
• Aart Schreuder (76)
• Cornelia Westbroek (86)
• Anna Maria Bongers (73), Zeeland
• Christina Spanjersberg (76)
• Christiaan van der Meijden (81), Heerhugowaard
• Catharina Johanna Berendina (Toos) Frieling (82), Arnhem
• Agnes Antonia Gezina Johannink (61), Alphen aan de Rijn

• 1978 » Shiri Appleby, American actress, director, and producer
• 1978 » Suzannah Lipscomb, English historian, academic and television presenter
• 1979 » Ayako Fujitani, Japanese actress and screenwriter
• 1979 » Lampros Choutos, Greek-Italian footballer
• 1979 » Sara Bareilles, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress
• 1980 » John Terry, English footballer
• 1983 » Mike Mucitelli, American mixed martial artist
• 1984 » Aaron Gray, American basketball player
• 1984 » Milan Michálek, Czech ice hockey player
• 1984 » Robert Kubica, Polish race car driver

• 1976 » Paul Bragg, American nutritionist (b. 1895)
• 1977 » Georges Grignard, French race car driver (b. 1905)
• 1977 » Paul Gibb, English cricketer and umpire (b. 1913)
• 1977 » Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-American engineer (b. 1906)
• 1978 » Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist and paleontologist (b. 1886)
• 1979 » Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, English-American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1900)
• 1984 » LeeRoy Yarbrough, American race car driver (b. 1938)
• 1985 » J. R. Eyerman, American photographer and journalist (b. 1906)
• 1985 » Potter Stewart, American soldier and jurist (b. 1915)
• 1985 » Robert Graves, English poet, novelist, critic (b. 1895)

1. Jan
2. Jeroen
3. Mark
4. Peter
5. Johannes
6. Michael
7. Maarten
8. Hendrik
9. Robert
10. Sander
11. David
12. Dennis
13. Willem
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 1 » Greece is admitted into the European Community.
• March 27 » The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours.
• July 7 » US President Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
• October 3 » The hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths.
• 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.
• December 15 » A suicide car bombing targeting the Iraqi embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, levels the embassy and kills 61 people, including Iraq's ambassador to Lebanon. The attack is considered the first modern suicide bombing.

The temperature on December 7, 1981 was between -0.7 °C and 4.5 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was 5.1 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (14%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.