About the day » Wednesday March 12, 1980Calender converter

• Malinche Baertsoen
• Luana Kerseboom († 2021)

• Arie Both (82), Rotterdam, South Holland, The Netherlands
• Aagje Triel (87), Capelle aan de IJssel, Zuid holland
• Aaltje Nienhuis (90), Scheemda,, Groningen, Nederland
• Bart Cailliau (65), Borgerhout, 2140, Antwerpen
• cornelia joosse (82), borssele
• Alexander Constantijn Caesar Hugo Wolterbeek (65), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bernard George Leibfried (89), Sherburn, Martin, Minnesota, United States
• Antje Lubach (93), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Barbara Aleida Legebeke (57)
• Abraham van Dueren den Hollander (83)

• 1979 » Ben Sandford, New Zealand skeleton racer
• 1979 » Gerard López, former Spanish footballer
• 1979 » Jamie Dwyer, Australian field hockey player and coach
• 1979 » Pete Doherty, English musician, songwriter, actor, poet, writer, and artist
• 1979 » Rhys Coiro, American actor
• 1979 » Tim Wieskötter, German sprint canoer
• 1980 » Becky Holliday, American pole vaulter
• 1980 » Césinha, Brazilian footballer
• 1980 » Douglas Murray, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1980 » Jens Mouris, Dutch cyclist

• 1971 » Eugene Lindsay Opie, American physician and pathologist (b. 1873)
• 1973 » Frankie Frisch, American baseball player and manager (b. 1898)
• 1974 » George D. Sax, American banker and businessman (b. 1904)
• 1985 » Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American violinist and conductor (b. 1899)
• 1989 » Maurice Evans, English-American actor (b. 1901)
• 1991 » Ragnar Granit, Finnish-Swedish neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1991 » William Heinesen, Faroese author, poet, and author (b. 1900)
• 1992 » Lucy M. Lewis, American potter (b. 1890)
• 1998 » Beatrice Wood, American painter and potter (b. 1893)
• 1999 » Yehudi Menuhin, American-Swiss violinist and conductor (b. 1916)

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. Jennifer
7. Wendy
8. Esther
9. Patricia
10. Jessica
11. Karin
12. Petra
13. Sarah
14. Anna
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.
• February 26 » Egypt and Israel establish full diplomatic relations.
• February 29 » Gordie Howe of the Hartford Whalers makes NHL history as he scores his 800th goal.
• May 18 » Students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations calling for democratic reforms.
• July 1 » "O Canada" officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
• October 10 » The 7.1 M_w  El Asnam earthquake shakes northern Algeria, killing 2,633 and injuring 8,369.
• November 28 » Iran–Iraq War: Operation Morvarid: The bulk of the Iraqi Navy is destroyed by the Iranian Navy in the Persian Gulf. (Commemorated in Iran as Navy Day.)

The temperature on March 12, 1980 was between 2.5 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 16.0 mm of rain during 12.4 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.