About the day » Saturday April 11, 1981Calender converter

• Arnold Christiaan (Arnold) Schouten († 1981)
• Marloes Klein, Willemstad, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Benjamin, August VANSTECHELMAN (80), Brugge, Flandre-Occidentale, Flandre, Belgique
• Bertus Max Koen (63), Marbella, Málaga, Andalusia, Spain
• André Jozef Maria VANDEN BOSSCHE (60), Knokke-Heist,8300,West-Vlaanderen,BELGIE
• Clifford Hutto (68), Whiteville, Columbus County, North Carolina
• Antoon Fleuren (70)
• Carel Antonet Johannes Teesseling (76), Amsterdam
• Antonius, Jacobus, Johannes van Engelenburg (78), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antoon Fleuren (70)
• Alice Ironside ** (73), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• Adriana Jacoba Maria Gulden (92), Breda,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1979 » Malcolm Christie, English footballer
• 1979 » Michel Riesen, Swiss ice hockey player
• 1979 » Sebastien Grainger, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1980 » Keiji Tamada, Japanese footballer
• 1980 » Mark Teixeira, American baseball player
• 1981 » Alessandra Ambrosio, Brazilian model
• 1981 » Alexandre Burrows, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1981 » Veronica Pyke, Australian cricketer
• 1982 » Ian Bell, English cricketer
• 1982 » Peeter Kümmel, Estonian skier

• 1977 » Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter (b. 1900)
• 1977 » Phanishwar Nath 'Renu', Indian author and activist (b. 1921)
• 1980 » Ümit Kaftancıoğlu, Turkish journalist and producer (b. 1935)
• 1981 » Caroline Gordon, American author and critic (b. 1895)
• 1983 » Dolores del Río, Mexican actress (b. 1904)
• 1984 » Edgar V. Saks, Estonian historian and politician, Estonian Minister of Education (b. 1910)
• 1985 » Bunny Ahearne, Irish-born English businessman (b. 1900)
• 1985 » Enver Hoxha, Albanian educator and politician, 21st Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1908)
• 1985 » John Gilroy, English artist and illustrator (b. 1898)
• 1987 » Erskine Caldwell, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1903)

• 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 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.
• March 27 » The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours.
• 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.
• October 27 » Cold War: The Soviet submarine S-363 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
• December 14 » Arab–Israeli conflict: Israel's Knesset ratifies the Golan Heights Law, extending Israeli law to the occupied Golan Heights.

The temperature on April 11, 1981 was between 9.2 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.