About the day » Saturday April 11, 1981Calender converter

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

• Carel Antonet Johannes Teesseling (76), Amsterdam
• Alice Josephina Ludovica Bosiers (92), Antwerpen
• Cornelis de Weerd (68), Hierden
• Clara Maxine Morris (64), Precinct 2, Freestone, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana van GEEL (67), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, NEDERLAND
• Adriana Jacoba Maria Gulden (92), Breda,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aaltje de Weerd (79), Hierden
• Anne Dijkstra (83), Amsterdam
• Benjamin, August VANSTECHELMAN (80), Brugge, Flandre-Occidentale, Flandre, Belgique
• Antonius Stevens (89)

• 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)

1. Jan
2. Jeroen
3. Mark
4. Peter
5. Johannes
6. Michael
7. Hendrik
8. Maarten
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.
• March 1 » Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.
• March 26 » Social Democratic Party (UK) is founded as a party.
• April 3 » The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.
• June 7 » The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.
• 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 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.