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• Annelies Daenen, Leuven, België († 1998)
• Kim Verwaaijen, Silvolde
• Michael van Wickevoort Crommelin, Kiel,,Schleswig-Holstein,Germany († 1980)
• Stefan Cornelis van Lienden
• Nicole Henny Marie (Nicole) Peetsma, Simcoe (Ontario Canada)

• Arnolda Maria Petronella Norberta Burgers (73), Tilburg
• Alida Hermana Steinmeier (67), Ede
• Alfons Geirnaert (86), Adegem, Belgium
• Bertus Gerrit Oskam (70), Boekelo
• Albert Wiebes Kamminga (48), Drachten
• Alida Hermanna Steinmeier (67), Ede, als gevolg van een verkeersongeval
• Catharina Sara Geertrui Margaretha Bouwman (95), Amsterdam
• Calvin Haines Stevens (83), Newark Valley, Tioga, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Antonius Henricus Voermans (72), Roosendaal
• Jacobs Joannes Franciscus Ludovicus (72), Turnhout, Antwerpen, België

• 1978 » Bubba Watson, American golfer
• 1978 » Xavier Tondo, Spanish cyclist († 2011)
• 1979 » Colin Grzanna, German rugby player and surgeon
• 1979 » David Suazo, Honduran footballer and coach
• 1979 » Keith McLeod, American basketball player
• 1979 » Michalis Hatzigiannis, Cypriot singer-songwriter and producer
• 1979 » Romi Dames, Japanese-American actress
• 1980 » Andrei Korobeinik, Estonian computer programmer, businessman, and politician
• 1980 » Christoph Metzelder, German footballer
• 1980 » Jaime Camara, Brazilian race car driver

• 1975 » Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer and actress (b. 1887)
• 1975 » Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1909)
• 1975 » Lionel Trilling, American critic, essayist, short story writer, and educator (b. 1905)
• 1977 » Alexey Stakhanov, Russian-Soviet miner, the Stakhanovite movement has been named after him (b. 1906)
• 1977 » Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American violinist and conductor (b. 1902)
• 1977 » René Goscinny, French author and illustrator (b. 1926)
• 1979 » Al Capp, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
• 1980 » Louis Alter, American musician (b. 1902)
• 1981 » Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa, Tibetan spiritual leader (b. 1924)
• 1985 » Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist and philologist (b. 1898)

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 1 » Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran after nearly 15 years of exile.
• 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.
• April 2 » A Soviet bio-warfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores, killing 66 plus an unknown amount of livestock.
• November 10 » A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, just west of Toronto, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.
• November 28 » Air New Zealand Flight 901, a DC-10 sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.
• November 30 » Pink Floyd's rock opera, The Wall is released.

The temperature on November 5, 1979 was between 6.3 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 14.9 mm of rain during 4.5 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (15%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west.