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• Jochum Alblas († 1983)
• Geert PROOT, Oostende, 35013, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique († 2005)
• Herma van der Horst

• Anna Korver (81)
• Christiaan Zandscholten (63), Deventer
• Antonetta Maria Cornelia Maat van der (33), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Abigail Marie Pendleton (92), Middle Village Oueens NY, V.S
• Aaltje Witte (81), amsterdam, Nederland
• * Wilhelmina Maria van Maris (77), Vlijmen
• * Pieter Jan Dullaart (80), Vlaardingen
• Adriana Elisabeth Sprangers (90), Gilze en Rijen
• Agnes Lousia Clingan (86), Roma, Queensland, Australia
• Antje Visser (82), Roden

• 1978 » Even Ormestad, Norwegian bass player and producer
• 1978 » Sisqó, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1978 » Steven López, American martial artist
• 1979 » Adam Dunn, American baseball player
• 1979 » Caroline Flack, English television presenter, radio presenter, and model († 2020)
• 1979 » Dave Bush, American baseball player
• 1979 » Martin Taylor, English footballer
• 1980 » Dominique Maltais, Canadian snowboarder
• 1980 » James Harper, English footballer
• 1980 » Vanessa Lachey, Filipino-American television host and actress

• 1970 » Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician, 18th President of France (b. 1890)
• 1971 » Maude Fealy, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1883)
• 1972 » Victor Adamson; American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor (b. 1890)
• 1976 » Armas Taipale, Finnish discus thrower and shot putter (b. 1890)
• 1977 » Fred Haney, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1898)
• 1985 » Marie-Georges Pascal, French actress (b. 1946)
• 1988 » David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and priest (b. 1924)
• 1988 » John N. Mitchell, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 67th United States Attorney General (b. 1913)
• 1988 » Rosemary Timperley, English author and screenwriter (b. 1920)
• 1989 » Bill Neilson, Australian politician, 34th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1925)

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 7 » Third Indochina War: Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
• February 7 » Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was discovered.
• March 25 » The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
• March 28 » A coolant leak at the Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leads to the core overheating and a partial meltdown.
• July 17 » Nicaraguan dictator General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami, Florida, United States.
• December 10 » Kaohsiung Incident: Taiwanese pro-democracy demonstrations are suppressed by the KMT dictatorship, and organizers are arrested.

The temperature on November 9, 1979 was between 3.8 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (57%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.