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• Paul C. Scott († 1981)
• Tim Lievens
• Ingrid Mirella Grabijn, Wormerveer († 2009)

• Andreas Alexandrovitsj [Romanov] of Russia (84)
• Andrei Aleksandrovich ROMANOV (84)
• Anthony Pietro Coviello (79), Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, Verenigde Staten
• Armand SEGERS (85), Evergem,9940,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Berend Jan Christiaan Roukes (97), Rotterdam
• Antonius Petrus Johannes Adriaansen (75), Goirle
• Antonia Taubmann (81)
• Charles Irvin Teeter Metzger (87)
• André de Russie (84), Provender, Angleterre, Grande-Bretagne
• Adriana van Ginkel (84)

• 1980 » Evgeny Lebedev, Russian-English publisher and philanthropist
• 1980 » Keyon Dooling, American basketball player
• 1980 » Michelle McManus, Scottish singer-songwriter and actress
• 1980 » Panagiotis Kafkis, Greek basketball player
• 1981 » Andrea Barzagli, Italian footballer
• 1981 » Björn Dixgård, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1981 » John Maine, American baseball player
• 1981 » Manny Gamburyan, Armenian-American mixed martial artist
• 1981 » Stephen Amell, Canadian actor
• 1981 » Tatyana Dektyareva, Russian hurdler

• 1980 » Geoffrey Baker, English Field Marshal and Chief of the General Staff of the British Army (b. 1920)
• 1981 » Uri Zvi Greenberg, Israeli poet and journalist (b. 1896)
• 1982 » Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver (b. 1950)
• 1982 » Neil Bogart, American record producer, co-founded Casablanca Records (b. 1943)
• 1983 » John Fante, American author and screenwriter (b. 1909)
• 1984 » Gino Bianco, Italian-Brazilian race car driver (b. 1916)
• 1984 » Lila Bell Wallace, American publisher, co-founded Reader's Digest (b. 1890)
• 1985 » Dolph Sweet, American actor (b. 1920)
• 1985 » Karl Marx, German conductor and composer (b. 1897)
• 1985 » Theodore Sturgeon, American author and critic (b. 1918)

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. 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.
• February 23 » In Spain, Antonio Tejero attempts a coup d'état by capturing the Spanish Congress of Deputies.
• 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.
• May 25 » In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
• May 26 » An EA-6B Prowler crashes on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USSNimitz, killing 14 crewmen and injuring 45 others.
• November 11 » Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations.
• December 4 » South Africa grants independence to the Ciskei "homeland" (not recognized by any government outside South Africa).

The temperature on May 8, 1981 was between 10.3 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 5.4 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.