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• Branda Andries van der Kooi († 1985)
• Wiecher Van der Hoek, Avereest, Overijssel, Nederland († 1992)
• Blake Janssen, Brunsville, Dakota County, Minnesota († 2002)
• Wiecher van der Hoek, Avereest († 1992)
• Hubert Gerrit van EVERDINGEN, Uccle, 21016, Région Bruxelles-Capitale, Belgique
• Bas Walter Adrianus Maria Krijnen
• Karin Bijsma, Groningen, Neth

• Augusta Luysterborg (79), Mol (B), België
• Carolien Claessen (78), Hulsberg,, Limburg, Nederland
• Cornelis Antonius Maria Broek van den (79), Tilburg
• Dina Prinetta Kautz (52), Trento, Trentino, Italië
• Aenne Elsner (71), Altea-Alicante, Spanje
• Count Rochus of Spee (55), Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
• Dirk Willem Van Wulfften Palthe (62), Rijswijk
• Bert Soolsma (Solsma) (76)
• Dorothy Marie BROWN (50), Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States of America
• Ethel Grace Nicholson (88), Mudgee, New South Wales, Australia

• 1979 » Juan Ignacio Chela, Argentinian tennis player
• 1979 » Leon Lopez, English singer-songwriter and actor
• 1979 » Scott Richmond, Canadian baseball player
• 1980 » Justin Mortelliti, American actor and singer-songwriter
• 1981 » Adam Wainwright, American baseball player
• 1981 » Germán Legarreta, Puerto Rican-American actor
• 1982 » Andy Roddick, American tennis player
• 1982 » Will Davison, Australian race car driver
• 1983 » Emmanuel Culio, Argentinian footballer
• 1983 » Gustavo Eberto, Argentinian footballer († 2007)

• 1971 » Ali Hadi Bara, Iranian-Turkish sculptor (b. 1906)
• 1979 » Jean Seberg, American actress (b. 1938)
• 1981 » Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Iranian politician, 2nd President of Iran (b. 1933)
• 1981 » Vera-Ellen, American actress and dancer (b. 1921)
• 1985 » Taylor Caldwell, English-American author (b. 1900)
• 1988 » Jack Marshall, New Zealand colonel, lawyer and politician, 28th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1912)
• 1989 » Seymour Krim, American journalist and critic (b. 1922)
• 1990 » Bernard D. H. Tellegen, Dutch engineer and academic (b. 1900)
• 1991 » Cyril Knowles, English footballer and manager (b. 1944)
• 1991 » Vladimír Padrůněk, Czech bass player (b. 1952)

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. 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.
• April 9 » The U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USSGeorge Washington accidentally collides with the Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it.
• June 27 » The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issues its "Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China", laying the blame for the Cultural Revolution on Mao Zedong.
• October 14 » Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected as the President of Egypt, one week after the assassination of Anwar Sadat.
• October 21 » Andreas Papandreou becomes Prime Minister of Greece, ending an almost 50-year-long system of power dominated by conservative forces.
• November 23 » Iran–Contra affair: Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
• December 13 » General Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland, largely due to the actions by Solidarity.

The temperature on August 30, 1981 was between 10.8 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (68%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.