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• Johanna Antonia Huberta Guikers, Soest
• Jonathan Andrew William Achterhof, Camp Pendleton Marine Base, CA
• Annemieke Ottenheym, Panningen,, Limburg, Nederland († 1982)
• Heidi Mulder († 1999)
• Gerdo Kleine, Zuidwolde, Drenthe, Nederland

• Aantje Jacoba Maria Streef (42), 's-Graveland
• Aafje Been (96), Haarlemmermeer, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Bertha Scipio (85), Oosterbeek, Limburg, Nederland
• Arij Roekx (74), Rotterdam
• Altye Mae Rust (93), Sheffield/Iowa
• Antonius Joannes van Rooij (80), Tilburg
• Carolina Johanna van den Bos (72), Amstelveen
• A.M.J(Aleida) Ravers (81), Almelo
• Cor Slierendrecht (68), Waddinxveen
• Adriana Huberdina van Diesen (77), Heerlen

• 1980 » Becky Holliday, American pole vaulter
• 1980 » Césinha, Brazilian footballer
• 1980 » Douglas Murray, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1980 » Jens Mouris, Dutch cyclist
• 1981 » Kenta Kobayashi, Japanese wrestler and kick-boxer
• 1981 » Holly Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1981 » Katarina Srebotnik, Slovenian tennis player
• 1982 » Ilya Nikulin, Russian ice hockey player
• 1982 » Lili Bordán, Hungarian-American actress
• 1982 » Samm Levine, American actor and comedian

• 1971 » Eugene Lindsay Opie, American physician and pathologist (b. 1873)
• 1973 » Frankie Frisch, American baseball player and manager (b. 1898)
• 1974 » George D. Sax, American banker and businessman (b. 1904)
• 1985 » Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American violinist and conductor (b. 1899)
• 1989 » Maurice Evans, English-American actor (b. 1901)
• 1991 » Ragnar Granit, Finnish-Swedish neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1991 » William Heinesen, Faroese author, poet, and author (b. 1900)
• 1992 » Lucy M. Lewis, American potter (b. 1890)
• 1998 » Beatrice Wood, American painter and potter (b. 1893)
• 1999 » Yehudi Menuhin, American-Swiss violinist and conductor (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. Willem
13. Dennis
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. 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.
• March 11 » Hundreds of students protest in the University of Pristina in Kosovo, then part of Yugoslavia, to give their province more political rights. The protests then became a nationwide movement.
• July 30 » As many as 50,000 demonstrators, mostly women and children, took to the streets in Łódź to protest food ration shortages in Communist Poland.
• August 25 » Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn.
• September 1 » A coup d'état in the Central African Republic overthrows President David Dacko.
• 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 14 » Arab–Israeli conflict: Israel's Knesset ratifies the Golan Heights Law, extending Israeli law to the occupied Golan Heights.

The temperature on March 12, 1981 was between 8.3 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 7.9 mm of rain during 5.1 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.