About the day » Tuesday July 7, 1981Calender converter

• Virginie Naaktgeboren, Dordrecht (Zuid-Holland) († 2019)
• Mark Meijs, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1994)

• Anna Molitor (81), Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
• Benjamin van Gelderen (78), Beverwijk,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan de Ridder (60), Vlissingen, Nederland
• Albert Mesken (80), Appelscha
• Adriana Maria Broeren (73), Roosendaal
• Arie de Vreugd (36), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Elizabeth Alberts (97), Primrose, Germiston, Transvaal, South Africa
• Albert Frederick John RUSSELL (60), Plymouth
• Aaltje Smit (51), Rotterdam
• Christiaan DE GOEDE (83), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1979 » Anastasios Gousis, Greek sprinter
• 1979 » Douglas Hondo, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1979 » Ibrahim Sulayman Muhammad Arbaysh, Saudi Arabian terrorist († 2015)
• 1980 » John Buck, American baseball player
• 1980 » Michelle Kwan, American figure skater
• 1980 » Serdar Kulbilge, Turkish footballer
• 1981 » Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian cricketer
• 1982 » George Owu, Ghanaian footballer
• 1982 » Jan Laštůvka, Czech footballer
• 1983 » Justin Davies, Australian footballer

• 1972 » Athenagoras I of Constantinople (b. 1886)
• 1973 » Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (b. 1895)
• 1973 » Veronica Lake, American actress (b. 1922)
• 1976 » Walter Giesler, American soccer player and referee (b. 1910)
• 1978 » Francisco Mendes, Guinea-Bissau lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1933)
• 1980 » Dore Schary, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1905)
• 1982 » Bon Maharaja, Indian guru and religious writer (b. 1901)
• 1984 » George Oppen, American poet and author (b. 1908)
• 1987 » Germaine Thyssens-Valentin, Dutch-French pianist (b. 1902)
• 1990 » Bill Cullen, American television panelist and game show host (b. 1920)

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 6 » The National Resistance Army of Uganda launches an attack on a Ugandan Army installation in the central Mubende District to begin the Ugandan Bush War.
• 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 24 » The Humber Bridge opens to traffic, connecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. It remained the world's longest bridge span for 17years.
• October 3 » The hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths.
• November 11 » Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations.
• November 30 » Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe. (The meetings end inconclusively on December 17.)

The temperature on July 7, 1981 was between 12.9 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (57%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.