About the day » Monday November 5, 1979Calender converter

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

• Bauke Jaasma (92), St. Nicolaasga, Friesland, Nederland
• Antonius Henricus Voermans (72), Roosendaal
• Aaltje Jansen (74), Wenum
• Calvin Haines Stevens (83), Newark Valley, Tioga, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Camilla Rachel Van der Herten (81), Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, België
• Pieter Boomsma (81), Berlikum
• Arthur Van Landeghem (79), Temse, België
• Aagje Pleunen Qualm (86), Myriokephalon
• Berry Angus Andrews (51), Alberton, East Rand, Gauteng, South Africa
• Arthur Blinston (66)

• 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 20 » An earthquake cracks open the Sinila volcanic crater on the Dieng Plateau, releasing poisonous H₂S gas and killing 149 villagers in the Indonesian province of Central Java.
• March 16 » Sino-Vietnamese War: The People's Liberation Army crosses the border back into China, ends the war.
• May 28 » Konstantinos Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community.
• July 19 » The oil tanker SS Atlantic Empress collides with another oil tanker, causing the largest ever ship-borne oil spill.
• August 27 » The Troubles: Eighteen British soldiers are killed in an ambush by the Provisional Irish Republican Army near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland, in the deadliest attack on British forces during Operation Banner. An IRA bomb also kills British royal family member Lord Mountbatten and three others on his boat at Mullaghmore, Republic of Ireland.
• October 18 » The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) begins allowing people to have home satellite earth stations without a federal government license.

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.