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• Talitha Alonza Ludwina Craet, Hamme, Oost-Vlaanderen, België († 1988)
• Ruud de Louw, Helmond, Nederland († 1981)
• Ruud de Louw, Helmond, Nederland († 1981)
• Heinz Hake († 2004)
• Evelien van den Berg († 1983)

• bastiaantje GROENENBERG (70), spijkenisse
• Anton Marinus Vlaanderen (61), Oosterbeek Renkum Gelderland Nederland
• Alexandra Maud Venetia James (84)
• Achille Masure (76), Bornem, Antwerpen, België
• Adrianus Johannes Blijenberg (89), Culemborg
• Aloisius Josephus van OVERMEEREN (83), Hulst (Zeeland) (NL)
• Anna Mary Scheddlebauer (97), Claremont, Richland, Illinois, United States
• Adriana Schollaert (81), Poperinge
• Coenraad KLOOT (75), Amstelveen, NH, Nederland
• Adrianus Kranendonk (78), Delden, Overijssel, Nederland

• 1979 » Giorgio Pantano, Italian race car driver
• 1980 » Raimonds Vaikulis, Latvian basketball player
• 1981 » Jason Kapono, American basketball player
• 1981 » Johan Vansummeren, Belgian cyclist
• 1982 » Chris Sabin, American wrestler
• 1982 » Ivars Timermanis, Latvian basketball player
• 1982 » Tomas Vaitkus, Lithuanian cyclist
• 1983 » Lee Stempniak, American ice hockey player
• 1983 » Rebecca White, Australian politician
• 1984 » Sandeep Acharya, Indian singer († 2013)

• 1970 » Louise Bogan, American poet and critic (b. 1897)
• 1974 » Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist, mathematician, and academic (b. 1894)
• 1975 » Louis Jordan, American singer-songwriter and saxophonist (b. 1908)
• 1982 » Alex Harvey, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1935)
• 1982 » Georg Konrad Morgen, German lawyer and judge (b. 1909)
• 1983 » Karen Carpenter, American singer (b. 1950)
• 1987 » Carl Rogers, American psychologist and academic (b. 1902)
• 1987 » Liberace, American singer-songwriter and pianist, (b. 1919)
• 1987 » Meena Keshwar Kamal, Afghan activist, founded the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (b. 1956)
• 1990 » Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian-American wrestler and trainer (b. 1915)

1. Jan
2. Jeroen
3. Mark
4. Peter
5. Johannes
6. Michael
7. Hendrik
8. Maarten
9. Robert
10. Sander
11. David
12. Willem
13. Pieter
14. Dennis
15. Patrick
16. Paul

1. Maria
2. Linda
3. Kim
4. Esther
5. Marieke
6. Johanna
7. Anna
8. Jessica
9. Wendy
10. Suzanne
11. Jennifer
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 8 » A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".
• June 5 » The "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report" of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that five people in Los Angeles, California, have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.
• 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.
• August 10 » Murder of Adam Walsh: The head of John Walsh's son is found. This inspires the creation of the television series America's Most Wanted and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
• September 26 » Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
• October 20 » Two police officers and an armored car guard are killed during an armed robbery carried out by members of the Black Liberation Army and Weather Underground.

The temperature on February 4, 1981 was between 0.9 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.