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• Alexis OLDENHOVE de GUERTECHIN († 1979)
• Christiaan Louis Richard Vlek, Bussum († 1991)

• Charlotte Grace Maxler (93), Painesville, Lake, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Albert Koekkoek (90), Veendam, Groningen, Nederland
• Berta Moreira Guimarães (84), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
• Anna van den Heuvel (77)
• Alexis OLDENHOVE de GUERTECHIN (0)
• Adriana Johanna de Laat (87), Goirle
• Abraham (Bram) Brown (Reijneveld) (71), Jacksonville, Duval County, V.S
• Antje de Vries (96), Aplington, Butler County, Iowa
• Claire Carleton (66), Northridge,Los Angeles,California, Verenigde Staten
• Anna Anthonia van Tol (90), Weesp, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1977 » Brandon Rogers, American singer and actor
• 1977 » Mark Streit, Swiss ice hockey player
• 1978 » Roy Wood, Jr., American comedian, actor, and radio host
• 1979 » Rider Strong, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1979 » Valdis Mintals, Estonian figure skater
• 1980 » Adi Keissar, Israeli poet
• 1980 » Kristjan Kitsing, Estonian basketball player
• 1981 » Jason Kennedy, American journalist
• 1981 » Jeff McComsey, American author and illustrator
• 1981 » Paul Medhurst, Australian footballer

• 1971 » Maurice McDonald, American businessman, co-founded McDonald's (b. 1902)
• 1975 » Lee Wiley, American singer (b. 1908)
• 1975 » Nihal Atsız, Turkish philosopher, author, and poet (b. 1905)
• 1978 » Paul O'Dea, American baseball player and manager (b. 1920)
• 1978 » Vincent du Vigneaud, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• 1979 » James J. Gibson, American psychologist and author (b. 1904)
• 1983 » Neil Ritchie, Guyanese-English general (b. 1897)
• 1984 » George Waggner, American director, producer and actor (b. 1894)
• 1984 » Oskar Seidlin, German-American author, poet, and scholar (b. 1911)
• 1987 » G. A. Kulkarni, Indian author and academic (b. 1923)

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 30 » A Varig Boeing 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
• February 17 » The Sino-Vietnamese War begins.
• June 3 » A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 3,000,000 barrels (480,000m) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the second-worst accidental oil spill ever recorded.
• October 17 » Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
• October 18 » The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) begins allowing people to have home satellite earth stations without a federal government license.
• December 21 » Lancaster House Agreement: An independence agreement for Rhodesia is signed in London by Lord Carrington, Sir Ian Gilmour, Robert Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and S.C. Mundawarara.

The temperature on December 11, 1979 was between 5.3 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 11.3 mm of rain during 4.7 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.