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• Loes van Sprundel, Oostburg († 1979)
• Armand Rinaldo Jubithana, Paramaribo († 2015)

• Desiderius Arnoldus Evers (70), Asten,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Alida Bruijnse (86), Amsterdam
• Agnes Pauline Quande (75), Lynnwood, Snohomish, Washington, United States
• Cornelis Uittenbogaard (82), Woerden, Nederland
• Adrianus Leendert Donker (84)
• Desiderius Arnoldus Evers (70), Asten
• * Everardus de Zwart (55), Leerdam
• Catharine van Liere (85), Kalamzoo, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Auke Hanzes Rinsema (89), Giekerk, Tietjerksteradeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Aldegonda Vandijck (64)

• 1978 » Allan Søgaard, Danish footballer
• 1978 » Salvatore Aronica, Italian footballer
• 1978 » Sonja Kesselschläger, German heptathlete
• 1979 » Choo Ja-hyun, South Korean actress
• 1979 » Will Young, English singer-songwriter and actor
• 1980 » Karl Anderson, American wrestler
• 1980 » Kim Jeong-hoon, South Korean singer and actor
• 1980 » Petra Rampre, Slovenian tennis player
• 1980 » Philippe Cousteau, Jr., American-French oceanographer and journalist
• 1980 » Philippe Gagnon, Canadian swimmer

• 1971 » Broncho Billy Anderson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1880)
• 1971 » Minanogawa Tōzō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 34th Yokozuna (b. 1903)
• 1973 » Amílcar Cabral, Guinea Bissauan-Cape Verdian engineer and politician (b. 1924)
• 1973 » Lorenz Böhler, Austrian physician and surgeon (b. 1885)
• 1977 » Dimitrios Kiousopoulos, Greek jurist and politician, 151st Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1892)
• 1980 » William Roberts, English soldier and painter (b. 1895)
• 1983 » Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (b. 1933)
• 1984 » Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (b. 1904)
• 1988 » Dora Stratou, Greek dancer and choreographer (b. 1903)
• 1988 » Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Pakistani activist and politician (b. 1890)

1. Peter
2. Jan
3. Jeroen
4. Johannes
5. Martijn
6. Mark
7. David
8. Dennis
9. Robert
10. Richard
11. Michael
12. Pieter
13. Erik
14. Paul
15. Gerrit
16. Bart

1. Maria
2. Wendy
3. Marieke
4. Anna
5. Kim
6. Sandra
7. Johanna
8. Linda
9. Vanessa
10. Judith
11. Monique
12. Esther
13. Jessica
14. Patricia
15. Jennifer
16. Petra

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 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.
• The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
• January 16 » The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt.
• April 1 » Nickelodeon was launched in United States.
• May 25 » John Spenkelink, a convicted murderer, is executed in Florida; he is the first person to be executed in the state after the reintroduction of capital punishment in 1976.
• September 20 » A French-supported coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokassa I.
• October 15 » Supporters of the Malta Labour Party ransack and destroy the Times of Malta building and other locations associated with the Nationalist Party.
• December 12 » The 8.2 M_w  Tumaco earthquake shakes Colombia and Ecuador with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 300–600, and generating a large tsunami.

The temperature on January 20, 1979 was between -4.6 °C and -0.1 °C and averaged -2.3 °C. There was 8.8 mm of rain during 7.4 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east.