About the day » Saturday September 26, 1981Calender converter

• Annie Magdalena van Rhyn (44), Cloesberg
• Anna Maria Rozeman (59), Schoonebeek, Drenthe, Netherlands
• * Catharinus Drooger (85), 's Gravenhage
• Antoinetta Johanna de VOOGT (87), Epe, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albertus Lodewijk Dujardin (70), Mechelen, België
• Catharinus Drooger (85), Den Haag
• Antoinette Degenaar (85), Dunadin Florida USA, Verenigde Staten
• Dirk van Ginkel
• Aukje Wiersma (70)
• Dora Petrus van der Werf (68), Rosmalen

• 1980 » Brooks Orpik, American ice hockey player
• 1980 » Daniel Sedin, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1980 » Henrik Sedin, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1980 » Patrick Friesacher, Austrian race car driver
• 1981 » Kanako Urai, Japanese professional wrestler
• 1981 » Ayumi Tsunematsu, Japanese voice actress
• 1981 » Christina Milian, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
• 1981 » Serena Williams, American tennis player
• 1981 » Yao Beina, Chinese singer († 2015)
• 1982 » Rob Burrow, English rugby player

• 1976 » Leopold Ružička, Croatian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1977 » Uday Shankar, Indian dancer and choreographer (b. 1900)
• 1978 » Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
• 1979 » Arthur Hunnicutt, American actor (b. 1910)
• 1982 » Alec Hurwood, Australian cricketer (b. 1902)
• 1984 » John Facenda, American sportscaster (b. 1913)
• 1984 » Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1948)
• 1987 » Herbert Tichy, Austrian geologist, journalist, and mountaineer (b. 1912)
• 1987 » Ramang, Indonesian footballer and manager (b. 1928)
• 1988 » Branko Zebec, Yugoslav football player and coach (b. 1929)

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. Jennifer
11. Suzanne
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.
• August 30 » President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar of Iran are assassinated in a bombing committed by the People's Mujahedin of Iran.
• September 15 » The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operates it under its own power outside Washington, D.C.
• October 21 » Andreas Papandreou becomes Prime Minister of Greece, ending an almost 50-year-long system of power dominated by conservative forces.
• December 14 » Arab–Israeli conflict: Israel's Knesset ratifies the Golan Heights Law, extending Israeli law to the occupied Golan Heights.
• December 15 » A suicide car bombing targeting the Iraqi embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, levels the embassy and kills 61 people, including Iraq's ambassador to Lebanon. The attack is considered the first modern suicide bombing.
• December 17 » American Brigadier General James L. Dozier is abducted by the Red Brigades in Verona, Italy.

The temperature on September 26, 1981 was between 10.6 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.