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• Tanya Danielle Ewing, Bethesda, Maryland, VS († 1996)
• Mirjam Elisabeth Stoll, Manzini-Swaziland
• Antonius Marinus Peter Helmer -, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2005)
• Patrick Vandevijvere

• Cornelia van Muijen (83), Oudshoorn
• Simons (67), Maasniel, Limburg, Nederland
• Andreas Hubertus Matheus van de Venne (67), Geleen-Lindenheuvel
• Ben Alton Barnes (61), Rocky Mount, Nash County, North Carolina, Verenigde Staten
• Carolus Josephus Aernouts (78), Sint-Antonius
• Anne Mulder (84), Amsterdam
• Alexius Camil DECRAEMER (Decramer) (71), Oostende
• Alida Catharina Grietina Hofman (64), Assen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Annie Mecca (70), Lackawanna, Erie, New York, Verenigde Staten
• Bertje Slomp (82), Deurne, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1978 » Angelo Taylor, American athlete
• 1978 » Danny Higginbotham, English footballer and journalist
• 1978 » Jake Berry, English lawyer and politician
• 1978 » Kieron Dyer, English footballer and coach
• 1978 » Matthew Carr, Australian footballer
• 1978 » Steve Kemp, English drummer
• 1979 » Diego Luna, Mexican actor, director and producer
• 1979 » George Parros, American ice hockey player
• 1979 » Mitsuhiro Ishida, Japanese mixed martial artist
• 1979 » Moe Oshikiri, Japanese model and actress

• 1968 » Austin Farrer, English theologian and philosopher (b. 1904)
• 1970 » Marie Menken, American director and painter (b. 1909)
• 1972 » Chrysostomos Papasarantopoulos, Greek priest and missionary (b. 1903)
• 1972 » Joseph Cornell, American sculptor and director (b. 1903)
• 1976 » Ivo Van Damme, Belgian runner (b. 1954)
• 1980 » Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian author and educator (b. 1899)
• 1981 » Miroslav Krleža, Croatian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1893)
• 1986 » Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1932)
• 1986 » Harold Macmillan, English captain and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)
• 1988 » Mike Beuttler, Egyptian race car driver (b. 1940)

1. Peter
2. Jan
3. Jeroen
4. Johannes
5. Martijn
6. Mark
7. Dennis
8. David
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. Nathalie

• 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 25 » Pope John Paul II starts his first official papal visits outside Italy to The Bahamas, Dominican Republic, and Mexico.
• 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.
• May 4 » Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• October 15 » Supporters of the Malta Labour Party ransack and destroy the Times of Malta building and other locations associated with the Nationalist Party.
• November 17 » Brisbane Suburban Railway Electrification. The first stage from Ferny Grove to Darra is commissioned.
• 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 29, 1979 was between 0.4 °C and 3.9 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 8.1 mm of rain during 5.4 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.