About the day » Thursday August 27, 1981Calender converter

• Marleen Helena Johanna Tijsterman, Gouda
• Paul Meuwissen, Montfort, Gemeente Roerdalen, Limburg, Nederland († 1998)
• Christof VAN NIEUWERBURGH, Leuven († 1988)
• Anthony James de Berg, Sheldon, O´Brien County, Iowa († 2022)
• Marja Wilhelmina Maria(Marja) van der Zalm, Leiderdorp

• Arend Joling (70)
• Anna Kralertová (79)
• Allegonda Slegers (64), Lierop,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aafke Overzet (84), Wolvega
• Dionisius Willems (63), Herentals
• Cornelis KLEI (75), Ten Boer Groningen Netherlands
• Anna Helena van Rappard (65), Voorburg,Gemeente Leidschendam-Voorburg,South Holland,Netherlands
• Brait Hovenga (68), Groningen,, Groningen, Nederland
• Catharina Alberdina Neggers (78), Eindhoven
• Benjamin F Blocker (73)

• 1977 » Deco, Brazilian-Portuguese footballer
• 1977 » Justin Miller, American baseball player († 2013)
• 1979 » Aaron Paul, American actor and producer
• 1979 » Rusty Smith, American speed skater
• 1979 » Sarah Neufeld, Canadian violinist
• 1981 » Alessandro Gamberini, Italian footballer
• 1981 » Maxwell Cabelino Andrade, Brazilian footballer
• 1983 » Joanna McGilchrist, English rugby player and physiotherapist
• 1984 » David Bentley, English footballer
• 1984 » Sulley Muntari, Ghanaian footballer

• 1971 » Bennett Cerf, American publisher, co-founded Random House (b. 1898)
• 1971 » Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer and journalist (b. 1906)
• 1975 » Haile Selassie, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1892)
• 1978 » Gordon Matta-Clark, American painter and illustrator (b. 1943)
• 1978 » Ieva Simonaitytė, Lithuanian author and poet (b. 1897)
• 1979 » Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, English admiral and politician, 44th Governor-General of India (b. 1900)
• 1980 » Douglas Kenney, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1947)
• 1981 » Valeri Kharlamov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1948)
• 1990 » Avdy Andresson, Estonian soldier and diplomat (b. 1899)
• 1990 » Stevie Ray Vaughan, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1954) (Double Trouble)

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 19 » Iran hostage crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.
• January 20 » Ronald Reagan is inaugurated the 40th President of the United States of America. Twenty minutes later, Iran releases 52 American hostages.
• 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.
• May 13 » Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Pope is rushed to the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic to undergo emergency surgery and survives.
• June 7 » The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.
• June 28 » A powerful bomb explodes in Tehran, killing 73 officials of the Islamic Republican Party.

The temperature on August 27, 1981 was between 10.0 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.