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• Patricia Soraya Hasenbalg, Den Helder († 2017)
• Vincent van Eyck, Heerlen, Limburg, Nederland († 1981)

• Charles Frederick Custer (81), Bedford Hospital, Bedford County, Pennsylvania
• Dirk Brouwer (87), Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arie Planken (78), Leerdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Agnes Hergaarden (74), Velsen
• Anna Margaretha van Weerdenburg (79), Amsterdam
• Anna Maria Cornelia Timmermans (37), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bertus Huisman (83)
• Dirgje Overheul (76), Hellouw, Gelderland, Nederland
• Carrie Mentrude Mendenhall (90)
• Cornelius Bernhard Groen (74), Clara City, Chippewa, Minnesota (USA)

• 1979 » Corinne Bailey Rae, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1979 » Pedro Mendes, Portuguese international footballer, midfielder
• 1979 » Steve Evans, Welsh footballer
• 1980 » Steve Blake, American basketball player
• 1981 » Kertus Davis, American race car driver
• 1981 » Oh Seung-bum, South Korean footballer
• 1982 » Li Na, Chinese tennis player
• 1982 » Matt Prior, South African-English cricketer
• 1982 » Nate Ruess, American singer-songwriter
• 1983 » Jerome Harrison, American football player

• 1966 » Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian poet and politician (b. 1883)
• 1969 » Karl Jaspers, German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher (b. 1883)
• 1969 » Levi Eshkol, Israeli soldier and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1895)
• 1981 » Howard Hanson, American composer, conductor, and educator (b. 1896)
• 1981 » Robert Aickman, English author and activist (b. 1914)
• 1985 » Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-American economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 1989 » Roy Eldridge, American trumpet player (b. 1911)
• 1993 » Constance Ford, American model and actress (b. 1923)
• 1994 » Bill Hicks, American comedian (b. 1961)
• 1995 » Jack Clayton, English director and producer (b. 1921)

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 17 » President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos lifts martial law eight years and five months after declaring it.
• April 12 » The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) takes place: The STS-1 mission.
• June 18 » The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the first operational aircraft initially designed around stealth technology, makes its first flight.
• June 27 » The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issues its "Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China", laying the blame for the Cultural Revolution on Mao Zedong.
• August 19 » Gulf of Sidra Incident: United States fighters intercept and shoot down two Libyan Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets over the Gulf of Sidra.
• September 15 » The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

The temperature on February 26, 1981 was between -2.3 °C and 3.9 °C and averaged 0.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.