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• Frank Theunissen, Brunssum, Limburg, Nederland
• Marjo Vriens, Eindhoven († 1981)
• Wolter Heijes, Stadskanaal († 2007)

• Adriaan Jan Remijnse (62), Kruiningen (Reimerswaal)
• Barbara Alida de Haan, Rotterdam
• Angelina Constantia Verstraelen (72), Turnhout (B.)
• Cornelia van Goudswaard (84), Goes, Goes, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Adrianus Marinus Smits (65), Tilburg
• Cornelia Goudswaard, van (84), Goes, Goes, Zeeland, Nederland
• Arie Bogerd (84)
• Adrianus Appelman (92), Hollum
• Arie Bogerd (84), Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bernardo Celestino quarteroni (84), Ornica

• 1979 » Diego Luna, Mexican actor, director and producer
• 1979 » Mitsuhiro Ishida, Japanese mixed martial artist
• 1979 » Moe Oshikiri, Japanese model and actress
• 1981 » Shaun Suisham, American football player
• 1981 » Shizuka Arakawa, Japanese figure skater and sportscaster
• 1981 » Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko, Estonian footballer
• 1982 » Alison Brie, American actress and singer
• 1982 » Brian Hill, Canadian swimmer
• 1982 » Dale Morris, Australian footballer
• 1982 » Norbert Siedler, Austrian race car driver

• 1968 » Austin Farrer, English theologian and philosopher (b. 1904)
• 1970 » Marie Menken, American director and painter (b. 1909)
• 1972 » Chrysostomos Papasarantopoulos, Greek priest and missionary (b. 1903)
• 1972 » Joseph Cornell, American sculptor and director (b. 1903)
• 1976 » Ivo Van Damme, Belgian runner (b. 1954)
• 1980 » Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian author and educator (b. 1899)
• 1981 » Miroslav Krleža, Croatian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1893)
• 1986 » Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1932)
• 1986 » Harold Macmillan, English captain and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)
• 1988 » Mike Beuttler, Egyptian race car driver (b. 1940)

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.
• June 13 » At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sarjeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.
• 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.
• July 17 » A structural failure leads to the collapse of a walkway at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri, killing 114 people and injuring more than 200.
• September 15 » The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.
• September 25 » Belize joins the United Nations.
• 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 29, 1981 was between 1.5 °C and 5.5 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was 5.7 mm of rain during 5.5 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.