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• Heidi Lee Ross, Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, Verenigde Staten († 1998)
• Eli van Hoek († 1980)
• Shane Marion Koele, Hartley, O´Brien County, Iowa († 2005)
• Jan BEEKS, Lived Hellevoetsluis (NL/ZH) Lived Eindhoven (NL/NB) († 2019)

• Cornelis van der HAM (76), Nieuwe Tonge
• Cornelia Barendina Burggraaf (69), Zeist,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Cornelis Stokman (72), Amsterdam, NH, Nederland
• Cornelia (Cor) Maria Ruiter (80), Uithoorn, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Aijolt Ekkes (82), Zaanstad, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Barendina Burggraaf (68), Zeist, Utrecht, Nederland
• Antje (Anna) Bootsma (97)
• Christoph Frans Bauermann (72), 's-Gravenhage,Gemeente 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia Jacoba ARKESTEIJN (62), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Amelia M S KAFFENBERGER (79), Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana, United States of America

• 1978 » A. J. Buckley, Irish-Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1979 » Akinori Iwamura, Japanese baseball player
• 1979 » Irina Slutskaya, Russian figure skater
• 1980 » Angelos Charisteas, Greek footballer
• 1980 » Manu Raju, American journalist
• 1980 » Margarita Levieva, Russian-American actress
• 1981 » Daisuke Sekimoto, Japanese wrestler
• 1981 » Tom Hiddleston, English actor, producer, and musical performer
• 1982 » Domingo Cisma, Spanish footballer
• 1982 » Jameer Nelson, American basketball player

• 1969 » George "Gabby" Hayes, American actor and singer (b. 1885)
• 1976 » Percy Faith, Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1908)
• 1977 » Sergey Ilyushin, Russian engineer and businessman, founded the Ilyushin Design Company (b. 1894)
• 1978 » Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist and coach (b. 1893)
• 1979 » Allen Tate, American poet and academic (b. 1899)
• 1980 » Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and author (b. 1900)
• 1981 » Bill Haley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1925)
• 1981 » M. C. Chagla, Indian jurist and politician, Indian Minister of External Affairs (b. 1900)
• 1984 » Yuri Andropov, Russian lawyer and politician (b. 1914)
• 1989 » Osamu Tezuka, Japanese illustrator, animator, and producer (b. 1928)

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

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

• 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)
• 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.
• The Netherlands had about 14.1 million citizens.
• April 2 » United States President Jimmy Carter signs the Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act.
• May 5 » Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege.
• May 18 » Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, United States, killing 57 people and causing $3billion in damage.
• June 3 » The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak hits Nebraska, causing five deaths and $300million (equivalent to $931million in 2019) worth of damage.
• August 19 » Saudia Flight 163, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar burns after making an emergency landing at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing 301 people.
• August 26 » After John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada, in the United States, the FBI inadvertently detonates the bomb during its disarming.

The temperature on February 9, 1980 was between 5.8 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.