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• Jonathan Reed Luchtenburg († 2009)

• Augustinus de Maat (82), Graauw, Zeeland, Nederland
• Aaltje van der Wal (88), Ventura County-California (USA)
• Adriana Hulsbos (95), Rijnsburg, 2231, Nederland
• Anna Marie ( Smeets ) Schmitz (89), Sittard
• Bernardine (Dini) Van der Struijf (80)
• Aaltje (Alice) Willems Van Der Wal (88), Oxnard, Ventura County, Californie, United States
• Bertus Camphorst (69), Heemstede
• Anna Maria Francisca Aerts (71), Geel, België
• Adriana Hulsbos (95), Rijnsburg
• Bastiaantje Kauwenbergh (65), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 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. Pieter
13. Willem
14. Dennis
15. Patrick
16. Paul

1. Maria
2. Linda
3. Kim
4. Esther
5. Johanna
6. Marieke
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 28 » Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls in the United States helping to end the 1979 energy crisis and begin the 1980s oil glut.
• August 30 » President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are assassinated in a bombing committed by the People's Mujahedin of Iran.
• September 1 » A coup d'état in the Central African Republic overthrows President David Dacko.
• September 25 » Belize joins the United Nations.
• 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 11 » El Mozote massacre: Armed forces in El Salvador kill an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign during the Salvadoran Civil War.

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.