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• Margaretha Annamaria Huurdeman, Nijmegen
• Gerrit Jan Hendrik(Rick) van Heerde († 1991)

• Anna Catharina Margaritha Van Och (65), Wilrijk
• Cornelia VAN KESSEL (73), Ede Gelderland Netherlands
• Christiaan Drent (93), Meeden
• Antonius Schoonderbeek (79)
• Batholomeus Leijdekker (77), Zierikzee
• Albert Scholte (71)
• August Merle (79), Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico
• Anna Maria Keeris (72), Eindhoven
• Anna Helena Janning (88), Barger-Compascuum, Gemeente Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Antoon van Haalen (76), Nijmegen

• 1977 » Nathan Bracken, Australian cricketer
• 1978 » Benjamin McKenzie, American actor
• 1978 » Elisabetta Canalis, Italian model and actress
• 1978 » Ruben Studdard, American R&B, pop, and gospel singer
• 1980 » Fernando César de Souza, Brazilian footballer
• 1980 » Hiroyuki Sawano, Japanese composer
• 1980 » Josef Vašíček, Czech ice hockey player († 2011)
• 1980 » Kevin Sinfield, English rugby player
• 1980 » Sean Burroughs, American baseball player
• 1980 » Yao Ming, Chinese basketball player

• 1971 » Walter Egan, American golfer (b. 1881)
• 1972 » William Boyd, American actor and producer (b. 1895)
• 1977 » Les Haylen, Australian journalist and politician (b. 1898)
• 1977 » Robert Lowell, American poet (b. 1917)
• 1977 » Steve Biko, South African activist (b. 1946)
• 1978 » William Hudson, New Zealand-Australian engineer (b. 1896)
• 1981 » Eugenio Montale, Italian poet, essayist and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
• 1982 » Federico Moreno Torroba, Spanish composer and conductor (b. 1891)
• 1986 » Charlotte Wolff, German-English psychotherapist and physician (b. 1897)
• 1986 » Jacques Henri Lartigue, French painter and photographer (b. 1894)

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. Paul
14. Erik
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 7 » Third Indochina War: Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
• February 13 » An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a ​⁄₂-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
• July 21 » Jay Silverheels, a Mohawk actor, becomes the first Native American to have a star commemorated in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
• September 1 » The American space probe Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 kilometres (13,000mi).
• October 14 » The first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights draws approximately 100,000 people.
• December 9 » The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first of only two diseases that have been driven to extinction (rinderpest in 2011 being the other).

The temperature on September 12, 1979 was between 12.5 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.