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• Maarten Verkooijen († 1983)
• Michael Hendrikus Johannes "Ruud " Velden van († 1982)

• Antonius Maria KAPITEIJN (71), Lisse
• Cornelia Maria Klijselij (56), Nijmegen
• Anne Jousma (81), Den Haag
• Aaltje van Driesum (74)
• Décio Geraldo Silveira (57), São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil
• Arie Pieter Vermeij (81), Dordrecht
• Catharina Verduin (85), Alkmaar
• Cornelia Maria (Corry) Klijselij (56), Nijmegen
• Celesta De Bruycker (95), Maldegem
• Clementius Rottiers (81), Bornem

• 1979 » Lucas Luhr, German racing driver
• 1979 » Yadel Martí, Cuban baseball player
• 1980 » Dirk Kuyt, Dutch footballer
• 1980 » Kate Ryan, Belgian singer-songwriter
• 1980 » Tablo, South Korean-Canadian rapper
• 1982 » Nuwan Kulasekara, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1983 » Aldo de Nigris, Mexican footballer
• 1983 » Andreas Ulvo, Norwegian pianist
• 1983 » Dries Devenyns, Belgian cyclist
• 1983 » Steven Jackson, American football player

• 1970 » George Johnston, Australian journalist and author (b. 1912)
• 1974 » Wayne Morse, American lawyer and politician (b. 1900)
• 1979 » J. V. Cain, American football player (b. 1951)
• 1979 » Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1929)
• 1986 » Ede Staal, Dutch singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
• 1986 » Floyd Gottfredson, American author and illustrator (b. 1905)
• 1987 » Fahrettin Kerim Gökay, Turkish physician and politician, Turkish Minister of Health (b. 1900)
• 1990 » Eduard Streltsov, Soviet footballer (b. 1937)
• 1990 » Manuel Puig, Argentinian author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1932)
• 1992 » David Wojnarowicz, American painter, photographer, and activist (b. 1954)

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 8 » A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".
• January 18 » Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs).
• March 11 » Hundreds of students protest in the University of Pristina in Kosovo, then part of Yugoslavia, to give their province more political rights. The protests then became a nationwide movement.
• April 14 » STS-1: The first operational Space Shuttle, Columbia completes its first test flight.
• May 21 » Transamerica Corporation agrees to sell United Artists to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for $380million after the box office failure of the 1980 film Heaven's Gate.
• December 11 » El Mozote massacre: Armed forces in El Salvador kill an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign during the Salvadoran Civil War.

The temperature on July 22, 1981 was between 12.3 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 16.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (17%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.