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• Lindsey Vandersyppe, Roeselare († 2021)
• Malou de Waal, Oisterwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Agatha Niesje Verfaille (78), Rotterdam
• Coenraad Albertus De Milander (72)
• Burton Joseph McCown (71), Eldora, Hardin County, Iowa
• Alfred William Branson Mason (74), Mr Hawthorn Western Australia
• Antonetta Maria van der Mee (67), geldrop
• Catharina Francisca Anna de Rooij (83), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina F A de Rooy (83)
• Andreas Johannes Veldmeijer (55), Australië
• Adrianus Antonius van Eijsden (74), Tienhoven (U)
• Adrianus Josephus van Nijnatten (85), Breda,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1979 » Kosuke Matsuura, Japanese race car driver
• 1979 » Maxim Afinogenov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1979 » Pedro Macedo Camacho, Portuguese pianist, composer, and producer
• 1980 » Max Greenfield, American actor
• 1980 » Pat Neshek, American baseball player
• 1981 » Beyoncé, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actress
• 1981 » Lacey Sturm, American singer-songwriter
• 1981 » Richard Garcia, Australian footballer
• 1982 » Mark Lewis-Francis, English sprinter
• 1982 » Whitney Cummings, American comedian, actress, producer, and screenwriter

• 1974 » Creighton Abrams, American general (b. 1914)
• 1977 » E. F. Schumacher, German-English economist and statistician (b. 1911)
• 1977 » Jean Rostand, French biologist and philosopher (b. 1894)
• 1977 » Stelios Perpiniadis, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1899)
• 1982 » Jack Tworkov, Polish-American painter (b. 1900)
• 1985 » George O'Brien, American actor and singer (b. 1899)
• 1985 » Vasyl Stus, Ukrainian poet, publicist, and dissident (b. 1938)
• 1986 » Hank Greenberg, American baseball player and manager (b. 1911)
• 1986 » Otto Glória, Brazilian footballer and manager (b. 1917)
• 1987 » Bill Bowes, English cricketer and coach (b. 1908)

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. 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.
• February 8 » Twenty-one association football spectators are trampled to death at Karaiskakis Stadium in Neo Faliro, Greece, after a football match between Olympiacos F.C. and AEK Athens F.C.
• 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 5 » Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27.
• July 7 » US President Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
• July 19 » In a private meeting with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, French President François Mitterrand reveals the existence of the Farewell Dossier, a collection of documents showing the Soviet Union had been stealing American technological research and development.
• October 20 » Two police officers and an armored car guard are killed during an armed robbery carried out by members of the Black Liberation Army and Weather Underground.

The temperature on September 4, 1981 was between 6.4 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 11.9 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.