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• Izaäk Jan Schorer, Maurik († 1995)
• Jessica Roemersma, Nijmegen
• Agnes Tibben, Zuidwolde, Drenthe, Nederland
• jose knippenbergh, helden
• Merwin EIKELENBOOM, Veenendaal, Nederland († 1981)

• Constantinus Ludovicus Josephus Cuypers (79)
• Cornelis Frijters (54), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Arend Cleij (74), Groningen
• Alice May CLINE (85), Muskingum, Ohio, United States Of America
• Alice Margaret Milroy (88), Lansing, Ingham, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Alfred PEACOCK (72), Newmarket, Cambridgeshire, England
• Clara Menner (81), Daviess, Kentucky, Verenigde Staten
• Arendje Oosterlee (76), Rozenburg
• Adriana Maria Colsters (82)
• Annie Beattie Kirkpatrick (77), Dumfires, Scotland, United Kingdom

• 1980 » Aida Mollenkamp, American chef and author
• 1980 » Billy Yates, American football player
• 1980 » James Foster, English cricketer
• 1980 » Patrick Carney, American drummer, musician, and producer
• 1980 » Raül López, Spanish basketball player
• 1980 » Willie Mason, New Zealand-Australian rugby league player
• 1981 » Andrés D'Alessandro, Argentinian footballer
• 1982 » Anthony Green, American singer-songwriter
• 1982 » Michael Aubrey, American baseball player
• 1982 » Seth Rogen, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1971 » Gurgen Boryan, Armenian poet and playwright (b. 1915)
• 1979 » David Brand, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1912)
• 1980 » Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1980 » Raymond Bailey, American actor and soldier (b. 1904)
• 1982 » Arthur Lowe, English actor (b. 1915)
• 1984 » Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedian and magician (b. 1921)
• 1986 » Jean Genet, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1910)
• 1988 » Kenneth Williams, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 1989 » Hu Yaobang, Chinese soldier and politician, former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b. 1915)
• 1990 » Greta Garbo, Swedish-American actress (b. 1905)

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.
• April 4 » Iran–Iraq War: The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force mounts an attack on H-3 Airbase and destroys about 50 Iraqi aircraft.
• May 12 » Francis Hughes, Provisional IRA hunger striker, dies in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland.
• July 29 » After impeachment on June 21, Abolhassan Banisadr flees with Massoud Rajavi to Paris, in an Iranian Air Force Boeing 707, piloted by Colonel Behzad Moezzi, to form the National Council of Resistance of Iran.
• August 19 » Gulf of Sidra Incident: United States fighters intercept and shoot down two Libyan Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets over the Gulf of Sidra.
• September 18 » The Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.
• October 6 » Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is murdered by Islamic extremists.

The temperature on April 15, 1981 was between 4.1 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 12.5 hours of sunshine (90%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.