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• Sandra Empereur, Leuven, Brabant, Belgie
• Bertine van Asch († 2024)

• Baukje Pieters van der Kloet (87)
• Caspar Joe Hassing (93)
• Baukje van der Kloet (87), -
• Bento Amedeo Malavolta (79), Araraquara, São Paulo, Brasil
• Aagje Vreeken (77), Haarlem
• Andries Koster (98), Vlissingen, Zeeland, Nederland
• Aeilt Schudde (63)
• Byron Groo Hathaway (77), Clark, Nevada, Verenigde Staten
• Aukina Siega (82), Stadskanaal
• Audomar Maurice Beernaert (73), Roeselare,8800,West-Vlaanderen,België

• 1979 » Freema Agyeman, English actress
• 1979 » Keven Mealamu, New Zealand rugby player
• 1979 » Shinnosuke Abe, Japanese baseball player
• 1980 » Jamal Crawford, American basketball player
• 1980 » Robertas Javtokas, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1981 » Carl Webb, Australian rugby league player
• 1981 » Ian Murray, Scottish footballer
• 1982 » José Moreira, Portuguese footballer
• 1982 » Terrence Duffin, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1982 » Tomasz Kuszczak, Polish footballer

• 1971 » Falih Rıfkı Atay, Turkish journalist and politician (b. 1894)
• 1972 » Marilyn Maxwell, American actress (b. 1921)
• 1974 » Chet Huntley, American journalist (b. 1911)
• 1977 » Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, English politician, 9th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1909)
• 1977 » Terukuni Manzō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 38th Yokozuna (b. 1919)
• 1978 » Jacques Brugnon, French tennis player (b. 1895)
• 1981 » Gerry Bertier, American football player (b. 1953)
• 1983 » Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1891)
• 1990 » Lev Yashin, Russian footballer (b. 1929)
• 1990 » Maurice Cloche, French director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1907)

• 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 30 » U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.; three others are wounded in the same incident.
• April 27 » Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.
• September 21 » Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom.
• October 3 » The hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths.
• 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.
• November 11 » Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations.

The temperature on March 20, 1981 was between 6.1 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.