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• Antonia Goverdina Maria van Steijn (85), Noordwijk
• Alfred Raymond Racette (70), Marshall, Lyon, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelis (Kees) Kwakman (53), Volendam (Nederland)
• Eli Alpert (72), Florida, Verenigde Staten
• Dorothy Elizabeth Lewis (82), Sequim, Clallam, Washington, Verenigde Staten
• Benoît Mahieu, de (18)
• August Carl VAN DER LINDEN (86), Klein Netterden, Emmerich (DE)
• Elisabeth Kaaij (91)
• Antonia Gerritdina Maria van Stein (85), Noordwijk
• Aaltje de Wagt (76)

• 1978 » Michelle Rodriguez, American actress
• 1978 » Topher Grace, American actor
• 1979 » Brooke Baldwin, American journalist and television news anchor
• 1979 » Maya Kobayashi, Japanese journalist
• 1979 » Nikos Barlos, Greek basketball player
• 1980 » Kristen Connolly, American actress
• 1981 » Adrienne Camp, South African singer-songwriter
• 1981 » Pradeepan Raveendran, Sri Lankan director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1982 » Antonio Cassano, Italian footballer
• 1984 » Gareth Gates, English singer-songwriter

• 1969 » Henry George Lamond, Australian farmer and author (b. 1885)
• 1971 » Yvon Robert, Canadian wrestler (b. 1914)
• 1973 » Lon Chaney, Jr., American actor (b. 1906)
• 1975 » James Ormsbee Chapin, American painter and illustrator (b. 1887)
• 1979 » Minnie Riperton, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
• 1979 » Olive Morris, Jamaican-English civil rights activist († 1979)
• 1982 » Kenneth More, English actor (b. 1914)
• 1983 » Chris Wood, English saxophonist (b. 1944)
• 1990 » João Saldanha, Brazilian footballer, manager, and journalist (b. 1917)
• 1992 » Caroline Pafford Miller, American journalist and author (b. 1903)

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. 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 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.
• February 24 » The 6.7 M_s Gulf of Corinth earthquake affected Central Greece with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). Twenty-two people were killed, 400 were injured, and damage totaled $812million.
• March 27 » The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours.
• July 17 » A structural failure leads to the collapse of a walkway at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri, killing 114 people and injuring more than 200.
• July 29 » A worldwide television audience of over 700million people watch the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral in London.
• August 12 » The IBM Personal Computer is released.

The temperature on July 12, 1981 was between 11.5 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.