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• Adrianus Petrus Lambertus Antonius Coppens († 2002)
• Verena Helmer, Vinsebeck, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland († 2008)
• Dominic Knoop, Zeist

• Adriana M.C. van Zantvliet (71)
• aaffien Kundina Steenhuizen (61), Wagenborgen Gem: Termunten (Gron )
• Anna Ruth ( Annaruth) Sinke (59), Musekgon Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Albert Corthouts (72), Hasselt (B)
• Aaltje (Alie) Klaasd de Groot (82), EaZ
• Adrianus Frederik Karel Dukker (78), Delft
• Christiaan Johannes Odijk (47), Geldermalsen
• André VANDENBERGHE (43), Woumen, Belgique
• Adriana Francisca Delien- (81), Tilburg, Nederland
• Cornelia Francisca Antoni Willebrand (58), Schiedam

• 1979 » Donncha O'Callaghan, Irish rugby player
• 1979 » Mark Buehrle, American baseball player
• 1981 » Brett Young, American country music singer
• 1981 » Erin Crocker, American race car driver
• 1981 » Giuseppe Sculli, Italian footballer
• 1981 » Shelley Rudman, English bobsledder
• 1981 » Tony Peña, Jr., Dominican baseball player
• 1982 » Andrea Musacco, Italian footballer
• 1982 » Evgeni Striganov, Estonian ice dancer
• 1982 » José Contreras Arrau, Chilean footballer

• 1973 » Bertram Stevens, Australian accountant and politician, 25th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1889)
• 1978 » Haim Ernst Wertheimer, Israeli biochemist and academic (b. 1893)
• 1979 » Ted Anderson, English footballer (b. 1911)
• 1980 » Arthur Melvin Okun, American economist and academic (b. 1928)
• 1981 » Beatrice Tinsley, English-New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist (b. 1941)
• 1981 » Mike Hailwood, English motorcyclist (b. 1940)
• 1985 » Peter Charanis, Greek-American scholar and educator (b. 1908)
• 1985 » Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching, English physicist and engineer (b. 1913)
• 1986 » Moshe Feinstein, American Orthodox Rabbi and posek (b. 1895)
• 1987 » Olev Roomet, Estonian singer and violinist (b. 1901)

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. Pieter
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. 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 21 » Production of the iconic DeLorean sports car begins in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
• 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.
• May 5 » Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27.
• May 13 » Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Pope is rushed to the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic to undergo emergency surgery and survives.
• August 24 » Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon.
• December 18 » First flight of the Russian heavy strategic bomber Tu-160, the world's largest combat aircraft, largest supersonic aircraft and largest variable-sweep wing aircraft built.

The temperature on March 23, 1981 was between 0.4 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 6.0 mm of rain during 3.9 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.