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• Egbert Schuttert, Ambt Ommen
• Rick Evan Hulstein († 1982)
• Marijke Anna Zondervan, Groningen
• Michelle Schaake, Heerlen,6400,Limburg,Nederland
• Margaretha DE WOLFF († 2019)
• Mariëlla Esther de Geus, Raamsdonkveer († 2001)

• Antje Lagraauw (76), Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriaan Cornelis van Riel (66), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Apolonia Louwerse (80), Westkapelle, Walcheren, NL
• Catharine NN (97), Delavan, Walworth County, Wisconsin
• Catharina Clothilde Carolina Jeanne Muijlaert (94), Stein, Nederland
• Cornelis van der Sar (71)
• Anna Maria van Swaaij (95)
• Anna Harriette Wecker (91), Queensland, Australia
• Clifton Prentice Fountain (55), Sour Lake, Hardin, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Cina Veldheer (67), Zeeland Ottawa Michigan, Verenigde Staten

• 1979 » Ben Jelen, Scottish-American singer-songwriter
• 1979 » Mat McBriar, American football player
• 1980 » Eric Chouinard, American-Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 » Robbie Keane, Irish footballer
• 1981 » Anastasia Myskina, Russian tennis player
• 1981 » Wolfram Müller, German runner
• 1982 » Hakim Warrick, American basketball player
• 1982 » Sophia Bush, American actress and director
• 1983 » John Bowker, American baseball player
• 1983 » Rich Peverley, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1979 » Michael Wilding, English actor (b. 1912)
• 1979 » Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
• 1979 » Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 1981 » Bill Hallahan, American baseball player (b. 1902)
• 1985 » Jean-Paul Le Chanois, French actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1909)
• 1985 » Phil Foster, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1913)
• 1986 » Skeeter Webb, American baseball player and manager (b. 1909)
• 1987 » Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet and author (b. 1896)
• 1987 » Lionel Chevrier, Canadian lawyer and politician, 27th Canadian Minister of Justice (b. 1903)
• 1988 » Ray Barbuti, American runner and football player (b. 1905)

• 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.
• March 26 » Social Democratic Party (UK) is founded as a party.
• April 12 » The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) takes place: The STS-1 mission.
• July 29 » After impeachment on June 21, Abolhassan Banisadr flees with Massoud Rajavi to Paris, in an Iranian Air Force Boeing 707, piloted by Colonel Behzad Moezzi, to form the National Council of Resistance of Iran.
• September 21 » Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court justice.
• October 22 » The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) for its strike the previous August.
• December 11 » El Mozote massacre: Armed forces in El Salvador kill an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign during the Salvadoran Civil War.

The temperature on July 8, 1981 was between 13.8 °C and 28.0 °C and averaged 22.1 °C. There was 14.3 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.