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• Wim (Willem Roelf) Mulder, Zuidwolde Bedum Het Hogeland Groningen Nederland († 1987)

• Anna Hendrika (Anna) BEECKX BECKX (57), Aachen (D)
• Antonius Henricus maria Antoinette Johanna Catharina Hurkmans (79), Utrecht, Utr, Nederland
• Cornelia Gommeren (74), Breda
• Anna Catharina (Kaat) Goris (74), Huijbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adam Breukel (84), Rozenburg, Nederland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adam Breukel (84), Rozenburg
• Catharina Wilhelmina Slakhorst (84), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Carolus Alexander Cornelius Woltz (87), amsterdam, Nederland
• Bernardus Petrus Sibum (80), Coevorden
• Bernardus Petrus (Berend} Sibum (80), Coevorden

• 1978 » Simon Larose, Canadian tennis player
• 1979 » Florian Zeller, French author and playwright
• 1979 » Neil Shanahan, Irish racing driver († 1999)
• 1979 » Randy McMichael, American football player
• 1980 » Jevgeni Novikov, Estonian footballer
• 1981 » Brandon Phillips, American baseball player
• 1981 » Guillermo Martínez, Cuban javelin thrower
• 1981 » Michael Crafter, Australian singer-songwriter
• 1981 » Savage, New Zealand rapper
• 1982 » Ibrahim Camejo, Cuban long jumper

• 1974 » Vannevar Bush, American engineer and academic (b. 1890)
• 1975 » Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis, Greek architect (b. 1913)
• 1975 » Rod Serling, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1924)
• 1978 » Clifford Dupont, English-Rhodesian lawyer and politician, 1st President of Rhodesia (b. 1905)
• 1980 » José Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor (b. 1895)
• 1981 » Terry Fox, Canadian runner and activist (b. 1958)
• 1983 » Alf Francis, German-English motor racing mechanic and racing car constructor (b. 1918)
• 1984 » Yigael Yadin, Israeli archaeologist, general, and politician (b. 1917)
• 1985 » Lynd Ward, American author and illustrator (b. 1905)
• 1989 » Joris Ivens, Dutch journalist, director, and producer (b. 1898)

• 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.
• April 4 » Iran–Iraq War: The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force mounts an attack on H-3 Airbase and destroys about 50 Iraqi aircraft.
• April 11 » A massive riot in Brixton, south London results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.
• May 26 » Italian Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of the pseudo-masonic lodge P2 (Propaganda Due).
• June 18 » The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the first operational aircraft initially designed around stealth technology, makes its first flight.
• September 18 » The Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.
• October 6 » Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is murdered by Islamic extremists.

The temperature on June 28, 1981 was between 11.5 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 17.1 mm of rain during 19.2 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.