About the day » Tuesday December 25, 1979Calender converter

• Jacoba Helena van Nimwegen, Zeist
• Nathalie Bakker, Beverwijk († 2008)
• Melinda Noel Harkins († 2020)

• Antonia Josephina Tibben (74)
• Aukje Tienstra (88), ,,, Smallingerland, Friesland, Netherlands
• Catharina Elisabeth Fechter (77), Amsterdam
• Bouwe Krol (85), Sint Annaparochie
• Adele Marie de Vries (79), Renkum, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Anna Maria Hendrika Folst (82), Bergschehoek
• Benoit Van Den Bossche (68), Steenhuffel
• Anna Petronella Lucia Elesen (81), Tilburg,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albert Timmerman (70)
• Adrian Kloote (86), Grand Rapids, Michigan, Verenigde Staten

• 1977 » Israel Vázquez, Mexican boxer
• 1978 » Jeremy Strong, American actor
• 1978 » Joel Porter, Australian footballer and manager
• 1978 » Simon Jones, Welsh cricketer
• 1979 » Ferman Akgül, Turkish singer-songwriter
• 1979 » Hyun Young-min, South Korean footballer
• 1979 » Laurent Bonnart, French footballer
• 1979 » Robert Huff, English race car driver
• 1980 » Laura Sadler, English actress († 2003)
• 1980 » Marcus Trufant, American football player

• 1970 » Michael Peto, Hungarian-English photographer and journalist (b. 1908)
• 1973 » İsmet İnönü, Turkish general and politician, 2nd President of Turkey (b. 1884)
• 1973 » Gabriel Voisin, French pilot and engineer (b. 1880)
• 1975 » Gaston Gallimard, French publisher, founded Éditions Gallimard (b. 1881)
• 1975 » Gunnar Kangro, Estonian mathematician and author (b. 1913)
• 1977 » Charlie Chaplin, English actor and director (b. 1889)
• 1979 » Joan Blondell, American actress and singer (b. 1906)
• 1979 » Jordi Bonet, Canadian painter and sculptor (b. 1932)
• 1980 » Fred Emney, English actor and comedian (b. 1900)
• 1983 » Joan Miró, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1893)

• 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 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.
• September 1 » The American space probe Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 kilometres (13,000mi).
• November 9 » Cold War: Nuclear false alarm: The NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert is cancelled.
• November 28 » Air New Zealand Flight 901, a DC-10 sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.
• December 16 » Libya joins four other OPEC nations in raising crude oil prices, which has an immediate, dramatic effect on the United States.
• December 27 » The Soviet Union invades the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

The temperature on December 25, 1979 was between -0.1 °C and 5.9 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 3.2 hours. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (17%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.