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• Agnes Louise Patton Ketring (68), Troy, Miami, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• August Coenraad Weddepohl (80), Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Johanna Josephina Bestevaar (68), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aloijsius Cornelis den Boer (62)
• Daatje Wilhelmina van Voorthuizen (76), Soest, Utrecht, Nederland
• Charles William "Bud" Wilson (58), Charles is buried at the Wares Grove Cemetery. Find A Grave Memorial #: 45695053/Litchfield, Montgomery, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Zweed (53), ,,, Paterswolde, Groningen, Netherlands
• Albert Berkhout (55), ‘s-Gravenhage,Gemeente ’s-Gravenhage,South Holland,Netherlands
• Arrisje Vermeulen (76), Austerlitz
• Poelman (0), Groningen

• 1979 » D. J. Houlton, American baseball player
• 1979 » Ian Hutchinson, English motorcycle racer
• 1980 » Dominique Swain, American actress
• 1980 » Javier Chevantón, Uruguayan footballer
• 1980 » Maggie Lawson, American actress
• 1980 » Matt Thiessen, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1981 » Djibril Cissé, French footballer
• 1981 » Tony Capaldi, Norwegian-Northern Irish footballer
• 1982 » Alexandros Tzorvas, Greek footballer
• 1982 » Boban Grnčarov, Macedonian footballer

• 1978 » John Williams, English motorcycle racer (b. 1946)
• 1979 » Ernst Boris Chain, German-Irish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 1982 » Henry Fonda, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1982 » Salvador Sánchez, Mexican boxer (b. 1959)
• 1983 » Theodor Burchardi, German admiral (b. 1892)
• 1984 » Ladi Kwali, Nigerian potter (b. 1925)
• 1985 » Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
• 1985 » Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (b. 1951)
• 1986 » Evaline Ness, American author and illustrator (b. 1911)
• 1988 » Jean-Michel Basquiat, American painter (b. 1960)

• 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 20 » Ronald Reagan is inaugurated the 40th President of the United States of America. Twenty minutes later, Iran releases 52 American hostages.
• 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.
• May 26 » An EA-6B Prowler crashes on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USSNimitz, killing 14 crewmen and injuring 45 others.
• June 5 » The "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report" of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that five people in Los Angeles, California, have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.
• September 18 » The Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.
• September 21 » Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court justice.

The temperature on August 12, 1981 was between 11.2 °C and 23.4 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.