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• Donny Smink, Wijk bij Duurstede († 1982)
• Tonya Marie van den Top, Rock Valley, Sioux County, Iowa († 2000)
• Kim Oosterholt, Lichtenvoorde
• Kris Mox († 1981)

• Clemens Frans Marie baron van Hövell tot Westervlier en Wezeveld (70), Asten,Gemeente Asten,North Brabant,Netherlands
• Aderjana Kolders (71), Sliedrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Hubertus van Beers (75), Ammerzoden
• Clemens Frans Maria Baron van Hövell tot Westerflier (70), Asten, N.B
• Bjarne Lindmo (70), Elverum
• Cornelia Kapteijn (90), Bussum
• Carolus Maximilianus Maria Wouters (75), Tilburg
• Agatha Cornelia van Vonderen (86), Pijnacker, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Augusto Vasconcellos (74), Bragança Paulista, São Paulo, Brasil
• Charlotte Sylvia Bellman ***** (73), Bakersfield, California, Verenigde Staten

• 1980 » Albert Hammond Jr., American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1980 » Luciano Galletti, Argentinian footballer
• 1980 » Sarah Ayton, English sailor
• 1981 » A. J. Ellis, American baseball player
• 1981 » Dennis Sarfate, American baseball player
• 1981 » Eric Harris, American mass murderer, responsible for the Columbine High School massacre († 1999)
• 1981 » Ireneusz Jeleń, Polish footballer
• 1981 » Milan Bartovič, Slovak ice hockey player
• 1982 » Carlos Hernández, Costa Rican footballer
• 1982 » Jay Baruchel, Canadian actor

• 1976 » Dagmar Nordstrom, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1903)
• 1976 » Phil Ochs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940)
• 1976 » Renato Petronio, Italian rower (b. 1891)
• 1978 » Clough Williams-Ellis, English-Welsh architect, designed Portmeirion (b. 1883)
• 1980 » Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, Iraqi cleric and philosopher (b. 1935)
• 1982 » Wilfrid Pelletier, Canadian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1896)
• 1988 » Brook Benton, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1931)
• 1988 » Dave Prater, American singer (b. 1937)
• 1988 » Hans Berndt, German footballer (b. 1913)
• 1991 » Forrest Towns, American hurdler and coach (b. 1914)

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.
• January 18 » Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs).
• 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.
• April 14 » STS-1: The first operational Space Shuttle, Columbia completes its first test flight.
• May 25 » In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
• July 17 » A structural failure leads to the collapse of a walkway at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri, killing 114 people and injuring more than 200.
• October 9 » President François Mitterrand abolishes capital punishment in France.

The temperature on April 9, 1981 was between 4.1 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (61%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.