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• Jan(Jan) van der Zalm, Leiden
• Ilona Tot, Den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• atze kornelis blei (72), wemeldinge
• Adriana Catharina Veringmeier (59), Schiedam,-
• Allegonda van der Roest (52), Brixen in Tale (AUS) Oostenrijk
• Amelie Adina Darling (73), University College of the West Indies, Saint Andrew, Jamaica
• Adrianus Cornelis van Poppel (81), Tilburg
• Alphonsus Ludovicus Willemen (86), Kontich
• Clara Mae Weaver (87), Fairfield, Freestone County, Texas
• Cornelia Adriana Vermeulen (62), Zevenbergen
• Berthe Marie Jeanne Louchart (88), Hazebrouck, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Frankrijk
• Barteld Jans De Leeuw (78), Leeuwarden

• 1978 » Mick de Brenni, Australian politician
• 1979 » Aaron Cook, American baseball player
• 1980 » William Jackson Harper, American actor
• 1981 » Myriam Montemayor Cruz, Mexican singer
• 1981 » Steve Gohouri, Ivorian footballer († 2015)
• 1983 » Cory Jane, New Zealand rugby player
• 1983 » Jermaine Anderson, Canadian basketball player
• 1983 » Jim Verraros, American singer and actor
• 1984 » Cecily Strong, American actress
• 1984 » Manuel Osborne-Paradis, Canadian skier

• 1972 » Markos Vamvakaris, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player (b. 1905)
• 1975 » Robert Robinson, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
• 1977 » Eivind Groven, Norwegian composer and theorist (b. 1901)
• 1979 » Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-English physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1980 » Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
• 1982 » John Hay Whitney, American financier and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (b. 1904)
• 1985 » William Lyons, English businessman, co-founded Swallow Sidecar Company (b. 1901)
• 1987 » Harriet E. MacGibbon, American actress (b. 1905)
• 1990 » Del Shannon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1934)
• 1990 » Ernest Titterton, British Australian nuclear physicist (b. 1916)

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.
• April 14 » STS-1: The first operational Space Shuttle, Columbia completes its first test flight.
• May 26 » An EA-6B Prowler crashes on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USSNimitz, killing 14 crewmen and injuring 45 others.
• 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.
• August 7 » The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.
• November 11 » Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations.
• November 25 » Pope John Paul II appoints Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (the future Pope Benedict XVI) Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

The temperature on February 8, 1981 was between 7.3 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.