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Born on Thursday November 29, 1979
- Caroline van der Meer, Noordwijk († 1979)
Died on Thursday November 29, 1979
- Angele Antonie Alice BEUN (85), Bergues,59380,Nord,Nord-Pas-de-Calais,FRANCE
- Alton Willis (67), Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina
- Ben Volbeda (62)
- Burgje Anna Maria Schoonderwoerd (61), Dordrecht
- August SEGHERS (65), Hoboken,2660,Anvers,Flandre,BELGIQUE
- Anna Maria Jozephina Hazelhof (20), Kall (Dtsl.)
- Charles VALLEY (79), Paris 12e Arrondissement, 75012, Paris, Île-de-France, FRANCE
- Berendina J. Overbeeke (73)
- Ankje Feitsma (85), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Nederland
- Antonie van Voorden (69)
Source: Delpher (KB | national library) Newspapers from November 29, 1979 at Delpher
Born on November 29
- 1978 » Alessandro Fei, Italian volleyball player
- 1978 » Dimitrios Konstantopoulos, Greek footballer
- 1979 » Adam Barrett, English footballer
- 1979 » Francis Beltrán, Dominican baseball player
- 1979 » Neal Horgan, American-Irish footballer
- 1979 » The Game, American rapper
- 1980 » Chun Jung-myung, South Korean actor
- 1980 » Janina Gavankar, American actress and singer
- 1980 » Jason Griffith, American voice actor and actor
- 1980 » P. J. Fleck, American football player and coach
Died on November 29
- 1972 » Carl Stalling, American pianist and composer (b. 1888)
- 1974 » James J. Braddock, American boxer (b. 1905)
- 1975 » Graham Hill, English race car driver and businessman (b. 1929)
- 1975 » Tony Brise, English race car driver (b. 1952)
- 1980 » Dorothy Day, American journalist and activist, co-founded the Catholic Worker Movement (b. 1897)
- 1980 » George J. Maloof, Sr., American businessman (b. 1923)
- 1981 » Natalie Wood, American actress (b. 1938)
- 1982 » Afrânio Pompílio Gastos do Amaral, Brazilian herpetologist (b. 1894)
- 1982 » Percy Williams, Canadian sprinter (b. 1908)
- 1984 » Nora Thompson Dean, American Lenape educator and author (b. 1907)
Names that were popular for boys in 1979
Names that were popular for girls in 1979
Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1979
- 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.
- March 30 » Airey Neave, a British Member of Parliament, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility.
- May 25 » American Airlines Flight 191: A McDonnell Douglas DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, killing all 271 on board and two people on the ground.
- May 25 » John Spenkelink, a convicted murderer, is executed in Florida; he is the first person to be executed in the state after the reintroduction of capital punishment in 1976.
- 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 12 » The island nation of Kiribati becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- July 19 » The Sandinista rebels overthrow the government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.
Weather November 29, 1979
The temperature on November 29, 1979 was between 3.5 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.