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• Jody Lee ETCHELL († 2000)
• Anthony Laurence Kuiters, Tamworth Australië
• Allissa Marie Ray, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon († 1981)

• Cornelis Hendrikus Buitenhuis (83), Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Agnes Maria Bijnens (40)
• Calvin Benjamin Fenstermaker (83), Lehigh Co.Pennsylvania
• Berthe, Adèle, Julien DEPAIFVE (81), Paris, 75018, Paris, FRANCE
• Adrianus Wilhelmus van Dijk (82), Breda
• Angelique Clementine Davies (71), Voorburg
• Antonia Bankers (97), Deurne
• Alice Luella MONSON (79), American Fork
• Antoon Wijnand Lans (61), Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aaltje Buiting (88), Dalen,Drenthe,Niederlande

• 1978 » Alexandra Maria Lara, Romanian-German actress
• 1978 » Ashley Williams, American actress
• 1978 » Mista, Spanish footballer
• 1979 » Chad Cornes, Australian footballer
• 1979 » Corey Maggette, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1979 » Cote de Pablo, Chilean actress
• 1979 » Lucas Glover, American golfer
• 1979 » Matt Cappotelli, American wrestler and trainer († 2018)
• 1979 » Matt Stevic, Australian footballer and umpire
• 1980 » Shaun Cooper, American bass player

• 1969 » Liu Shaoqi, Chinese politician, 2nd Chairman of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898)
• 1971 » Johanna von Caemmerer, German mathematician († 1971)
• 1972 » Rudolf Friml, Czech-American pianist and composer (b. 1879)
• 1972 » Tommy Wisdom, English race car driver and journalist (b. 1906)
• 1976 » Mikhail Gurevich, Russian engineer, co-founded Mikoyan (b. 1893)
• 1976 » Walter Piston, American composer and academic (b. 1894)
• 1981 » William Holden, American actor (b. 1918)
• 1986 » Minoru Yasui, American lawyer and activist (b. 1916)
• 1987 » Cornelis Vreeswijk, Dutch-Swedish singer-songwriter, actor, and poet (b. 1937)
• 1990 » Eve Arden, American actress and comedian (b. 1908)

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.
• April 11 » Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.
• July 1 » Sony introduces the Walkman.
• August 11 » Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard both airliners.
• September 1 » The American space probe Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 kilometres (13,000mi).
• October 1 » The MTR, the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong, opens.
• October 27 » Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from the United Kingdom.

The temperature on November 12, 1979 was between -0.9 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 4.2 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.