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• Albert ( Al) Vanderkloot, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, VS († 1981)

• Cornelia Maria Leffers (75)
• Anna Magdalene Bolander Longhurst [Ki] (84), Salmon, Lemhi County, Idaho
• Adrianus Wilhelmus Albertus DIEBEN (65)
• Anna Maria Dirne (81), Oudenbosch,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Josephus (Ad - Janus) Gooskens (54), Breda
• Adriaan Johan Hendrik Buddenberg (75), Amsterdam
• Adrianus Josephus Gooskens (54)
• Adriana Timmermans (84), Helmond
• Cornelia Goswina Hoogenboom (63), Zevenhoven, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Appollonia Jacobs de Boer (83), Harlingen, Friesland, Nederland

• 1979 » Lee Dong-gook, South Korean footballer
• 1979 » Ryan Sharp, Scottish race car driver and manager
• 1980 » Kelly Shoppach, American baseball player
• 1980 » Mathieu Biron, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1981 » Émilie Mondor, Canadian runner († 2006)
• 1981 » George McCartney, Northern Irish footballer
• 1981 » Lisa Allen, English chef
• 1983 » David Lee, American basketball player
• 1983 » Jay Cutler, American football player
• 1983 » Tommie Harris, American football player

• 1968 » Lin Zhao, Chinese dissident and Christian executed during the Cultural Revolution (b. 1932)
• 1976 » Edvard Drabløs, Norwegian actor and director (b. 1883)
• 1978 » Theo Helfrich, German race car driver (b. 1913)
• 1979 » Hardie Gramatky, American author and illustrator (b. 1907)
• 1979 » Muhsin Ertuğrul, Turkish actor and director (b. 1892)
• 1980 » Alfred Hitchcock, English-American director and producer (b. 1899)
• 1982 » Raymond Bussières, French actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1907)
• 1992 » Mae Clarke, American actress (b. 1910)
• 1993 » Michael Gordon, American actor and director (b. 1909)
• 1993 » Mick Ronson, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1946)

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. Dennis
14. Pieter
15. Patrick
16. Paul

1. Maria
2. Linda
3. Kim
4. Esther
5. Marieke
6. Johanna
7. Anna
8. Jessica
9. Wendy
10. Jennifer
11. Suzanne
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 19 » Iran hostage crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.
• 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.
• 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 12 » Francis Hughes, Provisional IRA hunger striker, dies in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland.
• May 21 » The Italian government releases the membership list of Propaganda Due, an illegal pseudo-Masonic lodge that was implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries.
• December 1 » Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308, a McDonnell Douglas MD-80, crashes in Corsica, killing all 180 people on board.

The temperature on April 29, 1981 was between 6.6 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (9%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.