About the day » Wednesday May 20, 1981Calender converter

• Dillianisa Franciska

• Aaltje Koehoorn (80)
• Aaltje Johanna Mastbergen (77), Sheldon, O´Brien County, Iowa
• Adriana Menten Verheij (85), Scheveningen
• Baruch Hirsch RINGER (75), Den Haag / Wassenaar
• Cornelia van Oudheusden (68), Oud-Beijerland
• Augustinus Franciscus Mertens (74), Herentals, Antwerpen, België
• Anne Kooistra (80), Dokkum
• Derk Jan de Groot (77), Almen, Gorssel, Gelderland, Nederland
• Catharina Helena Maria Gerdes (82), Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland
• Anna Maria Rijnders (84)

• 1980 » Austin Kearns, American baseball player
• 1980 » Kassim Osgood, American football player
• 1981 » Iker Casillas, Spanish footballer
• 1981 » Lindsay Taylor, American basketball player
• 1981 » Mark Winterbottom, Australian race car driver
• 1981 » Rachel Platten, American singer and songwriter
• 1982 » Daniel Ribeiro, Brazilian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1982 » Imran Farhat, Pakistani cricketer
• 1982 » Jessica Raine, English actress
• 1982 » Petr Čech, Czech footballer

• 1971 » Waldo Williams, Welsh poet and academic (b. 1904)
• 1973 » Jarno Saarinen, Finnish motorcycle racer (b. 1945)
• 1973 » Renzo Pasolini, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1938)
• 1975 » Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor and lithographer (b. 1903)
• 1976 » Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz, Uruguayan politician (b. 1934)
• 1976 » Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1911)
• 1976 » Zelmar Michelini, Uruguayan journalist and politician (b. 1924)
• 1989 » Gilda Radner, American actress and comedian (b. 1946)
• 1989 » John Hicks, English economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 1995 » Les Cowie, Australian rugby league player (b. 1925)

1. Jan
2. Jeroen
3. Mark
4. Peter
5. Johannes
6. Michael
7. Maarten
8. Hendrik
9. Robert
10. Sander
11. David
12. Pieter
13. Willem
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. 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 2 » One of the largest investigations by a British police force ends when serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper", is arrested in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
• January 15 » Pope John Paul II receives a delegation from Solidarity (Polish trade union) at the Vatican led by Lech Wałęsa.
• January 19 » Iran hostage crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.
• March 26 » Social Democratic Party (UK) is founded as a party.
• June 5 » The "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report" of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that five people in Los Angeles, California, have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.
• November 1 » Antigua and Barbuda gains independence from the United Kingdom.

The temperature on May 20, 1981 was between 13.1 °C and 27.2 °C and averaged 20.1 °C. There was 11.3 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.