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• Johannes Burger, Rotterdam († 1979)
• Jenneke Helena Hak, Buren, Gelderland, Nederland
• Jenneke Helena Hak, Buren
• Corina Cornelia Johanna den Hartog, Dodewaard (Gelderland) Nederland)
• Johannes Burger, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1979)

• Francicus Baars (85), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Arnold (71)
• Anton Joseph Maria Sterneberg (63)
• Anna Maria Goedstouwers (68), Stabroek
• Adrianus Cornelis Nicolaas Duivenvoorden (90), Noordwijkerhout
• Aaltje Visser (67), Vollenhove, Overijssel, Nederland
• Adriana van Kranenburg (91), Lekkerkerk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Lawrance (76)
• Anna Zilgens (65), Würselen (D)
• Charles Henry ATKINS (61), Forest, Tasmania, Australia

• 1976 » Bruno Junqueira, Brazilian race car driver
• 1976 » Daniel Bahr, German banker and politician, German Federal Minister of Health
• 1976 » Mario Melchiot, Dutch footballer
• 1977 » Larry Bigbie, American baseball player
• 1978 » John Grabow, American baseball player
• 1980 » Dan Stoenescu, Romanian career diplomat, political scientist, journalist, and essayist
• 1980 » Jerry Collins, Samoan-New Zealand rugby player († 2015)
• 1980 » Richard Owens, American football player and coach
• 1981 » Guy Martin, English motorcycle racer
• 1981 » Vince Wilfork, American football player

• 1974 » Bert Patenaude, American soccer player (b. 1909)
• 1975 » Francis Dvornik, Czech priest and academic (b. 1893)
• 1975 » Izzat Husrieh, Syrian journalist, historian, and academic (b. 1914)
• 1976 » Toni Ulmen, German race car driver and motorcycle racer (b. 1906)
• 1977 » Tom Reamy, American author and illustrator (b. 1935)
• 1980 » Elsie MacGill, Canadian-American engineer and author (b. 1905)
• 1982 » Burhan Felek, Turkish lawyer and journalist (b. 1889)
• 1982 » Gil Whitney, American journalist (b. 1940)
• 1984 » Ümit Yaşar Oğuzcan, Turkish poet and author (b. 1926)
• 1986 » Kurt Hirsch, German-English mathematician and academic (b. 1906)

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.
• January 16 » The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt.
• April 4 » Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
• June 2 » Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
• July 19 » The Sandinista rebels overthrow the government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.
• 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.
• November 15 » A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.

The temperature on November 4, 1979 was between 7.4 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 11.1 mm of rain during 8.4 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.