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• Rachael C. van der Weit
• Bradley Steven Willemssen († 1995)
• Irene Elisabeth Josephina Maria Potten, Venray, Limburg, Nederland
• Wilhelmus Gerardus Maria Holterman, Zwolle († 2004)
• Bjorn de Vet, Geldrop († 2000)
• w.e.g.m. (miriam) koopmans, meijel

• Arnold (Snr) Markerink (83)
• Antonius Gerrit Heideman (88), De Heurne, Dinxperlo, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriaantje HOOGSCHAGEN (74), Sint Pancras, NH, Nederland
• Antonius Gerrit Heideman (88), Dinxperlo, De Heurne
• Catharina Haverkamp (60), Breda Nederland
• Bastiaan Hogerdijk (65), Alkmaar, Nederland
• Christiaan Hendrikus Hubertus "Christ" Beunen (79), Venray, Li.NL. (ZKH)
• Annechien Johanna Cornelia Kuipers (80), Emmen Drenthe Nederland
• Adriana Maria Dekkers (75), 's-Hertogenbosch
• André Edouard HETRU (49), Lille... Hauts de France

• 1979 » Maggie Q, American actress
• 1979 » Nazanin Boniadi, Iranian-American actress
• 1980 » Lucy Gordon, British actress and model († 2009)
• 1980 » Sharice Davids, American politician
• 1981 » Bassel Khartabil, Syrian computer programmer and engineer († 2015)
• 1981 » Daniel Bryan, American wrestler
• 1981 » Jürgen Melzer, Austrian tennis player
• 1982 » Apolo Ohno, American speed skater
• 1982 » Erin McNaught, Australian model and actress
• 1982 » Hong Yong-jo, North Korean footballer

• 1972 » Cecil Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish poet and author (b. 1904)
• 1972 » Margaret Rutherford, English actress (b. 1892)
• 1974 » Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, German-American mathematician and aerospace engineer (b. 1903)
• 1975 » Lefty Grove, American baseball player (b. 1900)
• 1982 » Cevdet Sunay, Turkish general and politician, 5th President of Turkey (b. 1899)
• 1983 » Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1985 » Wolfgang Reitherman, German-American animator, director, and producer (b. 1909)
• 1988 » Giorgio Almirante, Italian journalist and politician (b. 1914)
• 1989 » Steven De Groote, South African pianist and educator (b. 1953)
• 1990 » Rocky Graziano, American boxer (b. 1922)

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 17 » President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos lifts martial law eight years and five months after declaring it.
• February 8 » Twenty-one association football spectators are trampled to death at Karaiskakis Stadium in Neo Faliro, Greece, after a football match between Olympiacos F.C. and AEK Athens F.C.
• July 7 » US President Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
• August 24 » Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon.
• August 30 » President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are assassinated in a bombing committed by the People's Mujahedin of Iran.
• September 21 » Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court justice.

The temperature on May 22, 1981 was between 9.1 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 17.7 mm of rain during 4.5 hours. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.