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• Danny Barendrecht, Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Nederland († 2004)
• Brian Michael Hoff
• Astrid Kochx, Uitgeest, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• Addie Madeline Boyett (69), Santa Rosa, Florida
• Cornelis van Ginkel (70), Driebergen-Rijsenburg, Utrechtse Heuvelrug, Utr, NL
• Catharina Roijackers (78), Horn, Nederland
• Ester Olivia PERSSON (77), Kungsgat.47 A-Hörby-Malmöhus Län
• Caroline Johanna Henriette van Styrum (86), Amsterdam
• Aaltje Koster (78), Ruinerwold
• Catharina Pieternella van Staden (71), Leiden
• Adriana Maria van LOON (74), Dordrecht
• Ali Zijlstra (32), Assen, Gem. Assen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Agnes Lorraine Remfert (51), Red Bluff, Tehema, California, Verenigde Staten

• 1979 » Kareem McKenzie, American football player
• 1979 » Tracy McGrady, American basketball player
• 1980 » Anthony Minichiello, Australian rugby league player
• 1980 » Jason Babin, American football player
• 1981 » Andy Lee, Australian comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1982 » Issah Gabriel Ahmed, Ghanaian footballer
• 1982 » Rian Wallace, American football player
• 1983 » Custódio Castro, Portuguese footballer
• 1983 » Pedram Javaheri, Iranian-American meteorologist and journalist
• 1983 » Woo Seung-yeon, South Korean model and actress († 2009)

• 1974 » Duke Ellington, American pianist and composer (b. 1899)
• 1976 » Denise Pelletier, Canadian actress (b. 1923)
• 1979 » Ernest Bullock, English organist, composer, and educator (b. 1890)
• 1981 » Herbert Müller, Swiss race car driver (b. 1940)
• 1984 » Vince McMahon Sr., American wrestling promoter and businessman, founded WWE (b. 1914)
• 1988 » Freddie Frith, English motorcycle road racer (b. 1909)
• 1990 » Arthur Villeneuve, Canadian painter (b. 1910)
• 1991 » Gene Clark, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1944)
• 1992 » Hitoshi Ogawa, Japanese race car driver (b. 1956)
• 1995 » Harold Wilson, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916)

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 1 » Greece is admitted into the European Community.
• January 15 » Pope John Paul II receives a delegation from Solidarity (Polish trade union) at the Vatican led by Lech Wałęsa.
• January 17 » President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos lifts martial law eight years and five months after declaring it.
• 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.
• July 30 » As many as 50,000 demonstrators, mostly women and children, took to the streets in Łódź to protest food ration shortages in Communist Poland.
• October 27 » Cold War: The Soviet submarine S-363 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.

The temperature on May 24, 1981 was between 8.3 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 7.7 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.