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• Saskia Wielenga, Rijswijk

• Cornelis Johannes Nielen (77), Nijmegen
• Agnes Ellen Buckley (91)
• Alida Zuurbier (87)
• Adriana Catharina Maria Blonk (64), Epe
• Adriana Antonia de BRUIJN (90), Bergen Op Zoom
• Celso Ribeiro Costa (61)
• Cornelis Theodorus van der Ploeg (81), Leidschendam
• Cornelia Koolen (85), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Augusta Geelen (84), St Truiden
• Aaltje van Panhuis (67), Ermelo

• 1977 » Andrus Värnik, Estonian javelin thrower
• 1978 » Brad Arnold, American rock singer-songwriter
• 1978 » Jon Rauch, American baseball player
• 1978 » Mihaela Ursuleasa, Romanian pianist († 2012)
• 1979 » Christian Jones, Australian race car driver
• 1979 » Jon Garland, American baseball player
• 1979 » Steve Simpson, Australian rugby league player
• 1979 » Zita Görög, Hungarian actress and model
• 1980 » Asashōryū Akinori, Mongolian sumo wrestler, the 68th Yokozuna
• 1980 » Ehron VonAllen, American singer-songwriter and producer

• 1972 » S. R. Ranganathan, Indian mathematician, librarian, and academic (b. 1892)
• 1974 » Silvio Frondizi, Argentinian lawyer and academic (b. 1907)
• 1975 » Jack Lang, Australian lawyer and politician, 23rd Premier of New South Wales (b. 1876)
• 1979 » Gracie Fields, English actress and singer (b. 1898)
• 1979 » Jimmy McCulloch, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1953)
• 1981 » Robert Montgomery, American actor, singer, director, and producer (b. 1904)
• 1983 » Wilfred Burchett, Australian journalist and author (b. 1911)
• 1984 » Chronis Exarhakos, Greek actor (b. 1932)
• 1985 » Lloyd Nolan, American actor (b. 1902)
• 1986 » Cliff Burton, American bass player and songwriter (b. 1962)

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.
• March 13 » The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts the Prime Minister of Grenada, Eric Gairy, in a coup d'état.
• April 1 » Nickelodeon was launched in United States.
• August 27 » The Troubles: Eighteen British soldiers are killed in an ambush by the Provisional Irish Republican Army near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland, in the deadliest attack on British forces during Operation Banner. An IRA bomb also kills British royal family member Lord Mountbatten and three others on his boat at Mullaghmore, Republic of Ireland.
• October 17 » Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• November 14 » Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.
• 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 27, 1979 was between 4.6 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.