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• Joffri Middelkoop, Ameide (Vijfheerenlanden), Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1980)
• Nydia Denise Foppen, Harderwijk († 1980)
• Angela Nicole Booy († 2003)
• Richard Postema

• Cornelis Gerardus Godefridus Mulders (81)
• Alma Victoria Persson (84), Atkinson, NE
• Antonius Jacobus Johannes Brouwers (87), Baarle-Nassau
• Berend de Vries (86), Den Oever
• Andrea Augusta Martha Colpaert (83), Eeklo, België
• Carolus Ludovicus Verberckt (67), Leuven
• Alphonse JANSSENS de VAREBEKE (69), Mortsel, 11029, Antwerpen, Belgique
• Clay Bureatt McCarn (74), Beeville, Bee, Texas, United States
• Cornelis Bastiaan Los Ir. (76), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• adrianus jacobus GROEN (62), puttershoek

• 1977 » Felipe Contepomi, Argentine rugby player, coach, and physician
• 1977 » Manuel Contepomi, Argentine rugby player
• 1977 » Paolo Bianco, Italian footballer
• 1977 » Wayne Brown, English footballer
• 1978 » Alberto Martín, Spanish tennis player
• 1978 » Chris Schroder, American baseball player
• 1978 » Emir Mkademi, Tunisian footballer
• 1979 » Cory Sullivan, American baseball player
• 1979 » Jamie Cullum, English singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1979 » Sarah Borwell, English tennis player

• 1965 » Jonathan Daniels, American seminarian and civil rights activist (b. 1939)
• 1971 » Rashid Minhas, Pakistani lieutenant and pilot (b. 1951)
• 1979 » Christian Dotremont, Belgian painter and poet (b. 1922)
• 1980 » Joe Dassin, American-French singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
• 1982 » Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (b. 1929)
• 1985 » Donald O. Hebb, Canadian psychologist and academic (b. 1904)
• 1985 » Wilhelm Meendsen-Bohlken, German admiral (b. 1897)
• 1986 » Milton Acorn, Canadian poet and playwright (b. 1923)
• 1987 » Walenty Kłyszejko, Estonian-Polish basketball player and coach (b. 1909)
• 1993 » Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher and academic (b. 1912)

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

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

• 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.
• February 7 » Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was discovered.
• February 20 » An earthquake cracks open the Sinila volcanic crater on the Dieng Plateau, releasing poisonous H₂S gas and killing 149 villagers in the Indonesian province of Central Java.
• February 26 » The Superliner railcar enters revenue service with Amtrak.
• October 12 » The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg), occurred in the western Pacific Ocean during Typhoon Tip.
• October 18 » The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) begins allowing people to have home satellite earth stations without a federal government license.
• November 4 » Iran hostage crisis: A group of Iranian college students overruns the U.S. embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages.

The temperature on August 20, 1979 was between 12.7 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (14%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.