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• Jonathan Reed Luchtenburg († 2009)

• Aaltje Sybes Hoekstra (79), Leeuwarden, Gem. Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
• Bertus Camphorst (69), Heemstede
• Antonius Gerardus Gerretsen (51), Groenlo,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Constant Jan Van Marle (79), Torremolinos, Málaga, Andalucía, Spain
• Abel Westerlaan (72)
• Anthonius Gerardus Gerretsen (51), Groenlo, Gelderland, Nederland
• Arnaldo Cornélio Marracini (57), Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil
• Arthur Hamilton Reynolds (76), Northville, Wayne, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Hulsbos (95), Rijnsburg, 2231, Nederland
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Cornelis van Tilburg (84), Roosendaal en Nispen

• 1979 » Olivia Lufkin, Japanese-American singer-songwriter
• 1979 » Stephen McPhail, Irish footballer
• 1980 » Mark Riddell, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
• 1980 » Ryder Hesjedal, Canadian cyclist
• 1980 » Simon Helberg, American actor, comedian, and musician
• 1981 » Mardy Fish, American tennis player
• 1982 » Bastian Swillims, German sprinter
• 1982 » Nathalie De Vos, Belgian runner
• 1982 » Ryan Grant, American football player
• 1982 » Tamilla Abassova, Russian cyclist

• 1970 » Artem Mikoyan, Armenian-Russian engineer and businessman, co-founded the Mikoyan Company (b. 1905)
• 1970 » Feroz Khan Noon, Pakistani politician, 7th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1893)
• 1971 » Ralph Bunche, American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 1971 » Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor and painter (b. 1874)
• 1971 » Rev. Aeneas Francon Williams, Church of Scotland Minister, Missionary in India and China, writer and poet (b. 1886)
• 1972 » Louella Parsons, American writer and columnist (b. 1881)
• 1975 » William A. Wellman, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1896)
• 1979 » Fulton J. Sheen, American archbishop (b. 1895)
• 1982 » Leon Jaworski, American lawyer and politician (b. 1905)
• 1991 » Berenice Abbott, American photographer (b. 1898)

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 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 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 14 » STS-1: The first operational Space Shuttle, Columbia completes its first test flight.
• June 7 » The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.
• August 3 » Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launch the Antiimperialist Action Front – Suxxali Reew Mi.
• December 13 » General Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland, largely due to the actions by Solidarity.

The temperature on December 9, 1981 was between -1.2 °C and 2.6 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. There was 9.6 mm of rain during 4.8 hours. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.