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• wilhelmina hendrina (loes) vercoulen, helden-panningen
• Peter Donald Howard († 1979)
• Frederik Tuitman, Middelstum
• Wendy Pennekamp, Alkmaar,Alkmaar,Noord Holland,Nederland
• Julet Theresa Foster, George Town, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands († 2023)
• wendy Den Hartog, Amsterdam

• Arthur William Moore ** (73), Lachine, Quebec, Canada
• Anne Adams Vondeling (63), Mechelen, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Bartha Hermina Bastiaans (79), Bolsward, Friesland, Netherlands
• Arthur SELVIG (70), Chicago, Cook, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Christiaan Wilhelmus Reuvers (63), Voorburg
• Alexandrina Johanna Middelburg (67)
• Adriana Johanna EICHHORN (89), Utrecht
• Berlin S Hey (83), Penn Yan, Yates, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Anje Reininga (73), Winschoten
• Berend Braam (65), Norg, Drenthe, Nederland

• 1977 » Kerem Gönlüm, Turkish basketball player
• 1978 » Colin Best, Australian rugby league player
• 1978 » Karen O, South Korean-American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1978 » Mélanie Doutey, French actress and singer
• 1979 » Christian Terlizzi, Italian footballer
• 1979 » Jeremy Dale, American illustrator († 2014)
• 1980 » David Artell, English-Gibraltarian footballer and coach
• 1980 » Rait Keerles, Estonian basketball player
• 1980 » Shawn Fanning, American computer programmer and businessman, founded Napster
• 1980 » Yaroslav Rybakov, Russian high jumper

• 1967 » Pavel Korin, Russian painter (b. 1892)
• 1976 » Sevgi Soysal, Turkish author (b. 1936)
• 1980 » Jules Léger, Canadian journalist and politician, 21st Governor General of Canada (b. 1913)
• 1980 » Mae West, American actress, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1893)
• 1980 » Norah McGuinness, Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1901)
• 1981 » Hans Adolf Krebs, German-English physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• 1986 » Scatman Crothers, American actor and comedian (b. 1910)
• 1988 » Luis Barragán, Mexican architect and engineer, designed the Torres de Satélite (b. 1908)
• 1989 » C. C. Beck, American illustrator (b. 1910)
• 1989 » René Moawad, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 13th President of Lebanon (b. 1925)

• 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.
• February 17 » The Sino-Vietnamese War begins.
• March 28 » The British House of Commons passes a vote of no confidence against James Callaghan's government by 1 vote, precipitating a general election.
• July 11 » America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
• July 19 » The Sandinista rebels overthrow the government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.
• October 27 » Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from the United Kingdom.

The temperature on November 22, 1979 was between -0.8 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.