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• Johan Dirix, Sint-Truiden, België († 1996)
• Anneke van Zanten, Nijmegen († 1980)
• Travis Raveling, Worthington, Nobles County, Minnesota († 2015)

• Arie Kraaijeveld (70), Dordrecht
• Age Uilkes Jongsma (84)
• Antje Broesder (84), Goes
• Beulah Florance Miller (75)
• Adriana Hendrijntje Bams (83), Dordrecht
• Albertus de Ruiter (86), Apeldoorn,Gemeente Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Cecil Clyde Elliott (58)
• Antje Broesder (84), Goes Zl. Nederland
• Donald M. Poling (74), Lima, Allen, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Anna BEX (69), Brussel (B)

• 1977 » Konstantinos Economidis, Greek tennis player
• 1977 » Leon Taylor, English diver and sportscaster
• 1977 » Rodney Buford, American basketball player
• 1978 » Carmen Cali, American baseball player
• 1979 » Simone Puleo, Italian footballer
• 1980 » Amos Roberts, Australian rugby player
• 1980 » Diego Lugano, Uruguayan footballer
• 1980 » Kim So-yeon, South Korean actress
• 1981 » Mitchell Johnson, Australian cricketer
• 1981 » Monica Iozzi, Brazilian actress

• 1966 » Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
• 1970 » Pierre Veyron, French race car driver (b. 1903)
• 1970 » Richard Cushing, American cardinal (b. 1895)
• 1971 » Robert Mensah, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1939)
• 1975 » Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 1981 » Wally Wood, American author, illustrator, and publisher (b. 1927)
• 1982 » Lester Roloff, American preacher and radio host (b. 1914)
• 1990 » Eliot Porter, American photographer, chemist, and academic (b. 1901)
• 1991 » Irwin Allen, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1916)
• 1991 » Mort Shuman, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1936)

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 1 » Normal diplomatic relations are established between the People's Republic of China and the United States.
• March 8 » Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time.
• April 10 » Red River Valley tornado outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
• July 11 » America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
• July 15 » U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his "malaise speech".
• July 17 » Nicaraguan dictator General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami, Florida, United States.

The temperature on November 2, 1979 was between 0.2 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.