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• Jean Guillaume André Guyon baron Collot d’Escury, Orange,84100,Vaucluse,Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,France († 1980)
• Janneke Vermeulen, Oosterhout
• Jean Guillaume Andre Guyon COLLOT D'ESCURY, Orange Vaucluse Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur France († 1980)
• Jantine Bea Ageetha (Jantine) Beekelaar, Kerkenveld, Zuidwolde, Drenthe, Nederland
• Lisa Hite
• Louise Stuij, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2019)

• Bessie Brunger (79), Lynden, Whatcom, Washington, Verenigde Staten
• ARIE HOOGENDONK (73), MAASDIJK
• Dirk Neeltje Paans (74)
• Agneta Rosen (37), Athens, Greece
• Antje Kroon (91)
• Alida Agneta Vlaar (65), Medemblik
• Bartholomeus Hendrik Vink (78), Heemskerk, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Hellegering (64), Ede
• Cornelis Johannes van Schendel (53), Voorburg
• Dirk Man (81), Beemster, Gemeente Beemster

• 1976 » Marc Coma, Spanish motorcycle racer
• 1976 » Taylor Hicks, American singer-songwriter
• 1977 » Antoine Revoy, French comics writer and illustrator
• 1978 » Alesha Dixon, English singer-songwriter and dancer
• 1978 » Alison Balsom, English trumpet player and educator
• 1978 » Zaheer Khan, Indian cricketer
• 1979 » Aaron Ashmore, Canadian actor
• 1979 » Shawn Ashmore, Canadian actor
• 1979 » Simona Amânar, Romanian gymnast
• 1981 » Austin Eubanks, American motivational speaker († 2019)

• 1967 » Norman Angell, English journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1872)
• 1969 » Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (b. 1888)
• 1970 » Alphonse-Marie Parent, Canadian priest and academic (b. 1906)
• 1983 » George O. Abell, American astronomer, professor, science popularizer, and skeptic (b. 1927)
• 1985 » Cemal Reşit Rey, Turkish pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1904)
• 1990 » Beatrice Hutton, Australian architect (b. 1893)
• 1990 » Chiara Badano, Italian beatified (b.1971)
• 1991 » Darren Millane, Australian footballer (b. 1965)
• 1991 » Harry W. Brown, American colonel and pilot (b. 1921)
• 1991 » Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (b. 1905)

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.
• February 14 » In Kabul, Setami Milli militants kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
• March 30 » Airey Neave, a British Member of Parliament, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility.
• April 1 » Iran becomes an Islamic republic by a 99% vote, officially overthrowing the Shah.
• June 1 » The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
• 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.
• November 19 » Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.

The temperature on October 7, 1979 was between 9.5 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (7%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.