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• Johannes Jacobus Wittenberns, Alkmaar
• Sandra dutt divorcÃ, strasbourg 67 († 1999)

• Christofel Pieter Kerssen (67), Rotterdam
• Bregtje Pieters Andree (66), Lakewood, Los Angeles, California, Verenigde Staten
• Adrienne Verhaeghe (77), Silvis IL
• Adrianus van Schilt (77), Bergen op Zoom, N-Br, NL
• Catherine (Cassander) Briggs [[K 0 FgcTXBu]]2 (91), Dallas County, Texas
• Berend Gardebroek (67)
• Dick Stadtlander (78)
• Cornelis Lucas (80), Amsterdam-Nederland
• Alida Grietje Tibbertsma (79), Harderwijk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albert C Stirzaker (53), Fleetwood, Lancashire, England

• 1977 » Matt Jansen, English footballer and manager
• 1978 » Paul Wilson, Scottish bass player and songwriter
• 1978 » Virender Sehwag, Indian cricketer
• 1979 » John Krasinski, American actor, director, and producer
• 1979 » Paul Ifill, English footballer
• 1979 » Paul O'Connell, Irish rugby player
• 1979 » Paul Terek, American decathlete
• 1979 » Vasyl Baranov, Ukrainian footballer
• 1980 » Chad Robinson, Australian rugby league player († 2016)
• 1980 » José Veras, Dominican baseball player

• 1972 » Harlow Shapley, American astronomer and academic (b. 1885)
• 1977 » Ronnie Van Zant, American singer-songwriter (b. 1948)
• 1977 » Steve Gaines, American guitarist (b. 1949)
• 1978 » Gunnar Nilsson, Swedish race car driver (b. 1948)
• 1983 » Merle Travis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1917)
• 1983 » Yves Thériault, Canadian author (b. 1915)
• 1984 » Carl Ferdinand Cori, Czech-American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)
• 1984 » Paul Dirac, English-American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1987 » Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1903)
• 1988 » Sheila Scott, English pilot and author (b. 1922)

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 30 » A Varig Boeing 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
• February 18 » Richard Petty wins a then-record sixth Daytona 500 after leaders Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough crash on the final lap of the first NASCAR race televised live flag-to-flag.
• March 8 » Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time.
• May 21 » White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.
• July 19 » The oil tanker SS Atlantic Empress collides with another oil tanker, causing the largest ever ship-borne oil spill.
• September 29 » The dictator Francisco Macias of Equatorial Guinea is shot by soldiers from Western Sahara.

The temperature on October 20, 1979 was between 7.2 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (19%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.