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• Matthew Rysdam, Marshalltown, Marshall County, Iowa († 2024)

• Christianus Wilhelmus Cramer (88), Noordwijkerhout, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Antonia Sprangers (84), Den Haag
• Arnoldus Josephus Wickenhagen (76), Amsterdam
• Antonius Vosters (88), Nieuwerkerken (België)
• Clement L. Harms, Sibley, Osceola County, Iowa
• Biem van der Vis (73), Oosterend
• Agnes (85), Cleveland, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Arij Jansen (55), Rotterdam
• Anje Waijer (91)
• Ada Josephine Stolk (78), Salt Lake City, Utah, Verenigde Staten

• 1977 » Adrienn Hegedűs, Hungarian tennis player
• 1977 » Fatih Akyel, Turkish footballer and manager
• 1978 » Kaoru Sugayama, Japanese volleyball player
• 1978 » Karel Rüütli, Estonian lawyer and politician
• 1979 » Chris Daughtry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1979 » Craig Wing, Australian rugby player
• 1979 » Dimitry Vassiliev, Russian ski jumper
• 1979 » Fabián Carini, Uruguayan footballer
• 1980 » Ceylan Ertem, Turkish singer
• 1980 » Todd Dunivant, American soccer player

• 1972 » Harry S. Truman, American colonel and politician, 33rd President of the United States (b. 1884)
• 1973 » Harold B. Lee, American religious leader, 11th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1899)
• 1974 » Farid al-Atrash, Syrian-Egyptian singer-songwriter, oud player, and actor (b. 1915)
• 1974 » Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton, Scottish admiral (b. 1890)
• 1974 » Jack Benny, American comedian, vaudevillian, actor, and violinist (b. 1894)
• 1977 » Howard Hawks, American director and screenwriter (b. 1896)
• 1980 » Tony Smith, American sculptor and educator (b. 1912)
• 1981 » Amber Reeves, New Zealand-English author and scholar (b. 1887)
• 1981 » Savitri, Indian actress, playback singer, dancer, director and producer (b. 1936)
• 1981 » Suat Hayri Ürgüplü, Turkish politician, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1903)

• 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.
• May 4 » Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• October 14 » The first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights draws approximately 100,000 people.
• November 4 » Iran hostage crisis: A group of Iranian college students overruns the U.S. embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages.
• November 15 » A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
• December 3 » Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini becomes the first Supreme Leader of Iran.
• 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 26, 1979 was between -1.0 °C and 0.1 °C and averaged -0.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.