About the day » Sunday December 13, 1981Calender converter

• N.N., Harms Grendelman
• Alexander Martin Slot, Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Martin JAGER, Muntendam, Groningen, Nederland († 2003)

• Abel Johanneszn. Booij (64), Heerenveen, Gem. Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland
• Alvie Dewey Gore (79)
• Adriana Hofman (51), Bergschenhoek, Nederland
• Alida Wilhelmina Weijdung (91), Den Haag,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonetta Johanna Kwarten (60)
• Adriana Helders (84), Utrecht,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Adriana Hofman (51), Bergschenhoek, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Akke Fokkes Penninga (81), Zuidhorn
• Antonij Smeekes (89)
• Alida van Dijk (75), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland

• 1980 » Danil Haustov, Estonian swimmer
• 1980 » Patrik Antonius, Finnish tennis player, coach, and poker player
• 1980 » Ryan France, English footballer
• 1981 » Amy Lee, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1981 » Mathis Bailey, American-Canadian novelist and fiction writer
• 1982 » Ayumi Kinoshita, Japanese actress and model
• 1982 » Dan Hamhuis, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1982 » Koutaro Tanaka, Japanese actor
• 1982 » Ricky Nolasco, American baseball player
• 1982 » Tuka Rocha, Brazilian race car driver († 2019)

• 1974 » Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, Egyptian-Turkish journalist, author, and politician (b. 1889)
• 1975 » Cyril Delevanti, English-American actor (b. 1889)
• 1977 » Oğuz Atay, Turkish engineer and author (b. 1934)
• 1979 » Behçet Necatigil, Turkish author, poet and translator (b. 1916)
• 1979 » Jon Hall, American actor and director (b. 1915)
• 1983 » Alexander Schmemann, Estonian-American priest and theologian (b. 1921)
• 1983 » Nichita Stănescu, Romanian poet and critic (b. 1933)
• 1986 » Ella Baker, American activist (b. 1903)
• 1986 » Heather Angel, British-American actress (b. 1909)
• 1986 » Smita Patil, Indian actress and journalist (b. 1955)

• 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.
• April 26 » Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.
• June 13 » At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.
• June 18 » The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the first operational aircraft initially designed around stealth technology, makes its first flight.
• July 29 » A worldwide television audience of over 700million people watch the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral in London.
• September 18 » The Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.
• November 11 » Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations.

The temperature on December 13, 1981 was between -4.7 °C and -1.5 °C and averaged -3.1 °C. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (58%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.