About the day » Wednesday August 26, 1981Calender converter

• Jennifer Ann BENNETT, American Fork, Utah County, Utah, United States of America († 2006)

• Clella Luke (73), Provo,, Utah
• Alfred RENSKERS (49), Winterswijk
• Cova Aileen Elmore (54), Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky
• Albert de Jong (55), Groesbeek,, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albert Jean Henri CALLENS (61), Tielt
• Chris Willmot Mailly
• Abraham Adriaan Haartsen (87), Nunspeet
• Alijda Johanna de Does (65), Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Berend Kuiper (75), Haarlem,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Schot (81)

• 1980 » Brendan Harris, American baseball player
• 1980 » Chris Pine, American actor
• 1980 » Macaulay Culkin, American actor
• 1980 » Manolis Papamakarios, Greek basketball player
• 1981 » Andreas Glyniadakis, Greek basketball player
• 1981 » Petey Williams, Canadian wrestler
• 1981 » Sebastian Bönig, German footballer
• 1981 » Tino Best, Barbadian cricketer
• 1981 » Vangelis Moras, Greek footballer
• 1982 » Angelo Iorio, Italian footballer

• 1976 » Lotte Lehmann, German-American soprano (b. 1888)
• 1977 » H. A. Rey, German-American author and illustrator, created Curious George (b. 1898)
• 1978 » Charles Boyer, French-American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1899)
• 1978 » José Manuel Moreno, Argentinian footballer and manager (b. 1916)
• 1979 » Mika Waltari, Finnish author, translator, and academic (b. 1908)
• 1980 » Rosa Albach-Retty, German-Austrian actress (b. 1874)
• 1980 » Tex Avery, American animator, director, and voice actor (b. 1908)
• 1981 » Lee Hays, American singer-songwriter (b. 1914)
• 1981 » Roger Nash Baldwin, American trade union leader, co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union (b. 1884)
• 1986 » Ted Knight, American actor (b. 1923)

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 15 » Pope John Paul II receives a delegation from Solidarity (Polish trade union) at the Vatican led by Lech Wałęsa.
• January 28 » Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls in the United States helping to end the 1979 energy crisis and begin the 1980s oil glut.
• 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 1 » Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.
• 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.
• March 30 » U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.; three others are wounded in the same incident.

The temperature on August 26, 1981 was between 11.1 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.