About the day » Friday December 7, 1979Calender converter

• Natasja van den BROECK
• Bozena Kapelanowitz, Opole, Poland
• Veronique Heirbaut, TEMSE († 2021)

• Clara Ludovica De Smaele (53), Gentbrugge
• Andries (Andrew) Bosch (93), Sheldon/ Obrien County-Iowa
• Andrew Bosch (93), Sheldon, O'Brien County, Iowa
• Aalt Willem Klooster, ten (80), Hasselt gem. Zwartewaterland Ov. NL
• Christian Crausen (75), Kerkrade
• Anna Maria Smeets (82), Kerkrade (L
• Aalt Willem ten Klooster (80), Hasselt
• Andries Bosch (93), Sheldon, Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Andries Bosch (93), Sheldon Obrien, Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Andries (Andrew) Bosch (93), Sheldon/ Obrien County-Iowa

• 1976 » Alan Faneca, American football player
• 1977 » Dominic Howard, English drummer and producer
• 1977 » Eric Chavez, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1977 » Luke Donald, English golfer
• 1978 » Shiri Appleby, American actress, director, and producer
• 1978 » Suzannah Lipscomb, English historian, academic and television presenter
• 1979 » Ayako Fujitani, Japanese actress and screenwriter
• 1979 » Lampros Choutos, Greek-Italian footballer
• 1979 » Sara Bareilles, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress
• 1980 » John Terry, English footballer

• 1975 » Hardie Albright, American actor (b. 1903)
• 1975 » Thornton Wilder, American novelist and playwright (b. 1897)
• 1976 » Paul Bragg, American nutritionist (b. 1895)
• 1977 » Georges Grignard, French race car driver (b. 1905)
• 1977 » Paul Gibb, English cricketer and umpire (b. 1913)
• 1977 » Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-American engineer (b. 1906)
• 1978 » Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist and paleontologist (b. 1886)
• 1979 » Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, English-American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1900)
• 1984 » LeeRoy Yarbrough, American race car driver (b. 1938)
• 1985 » J. R. Eyerman, American photographer and journalist (b. 1906)

• 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.
• February 14 » In Kabul, Setami Milli militants kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
• March 28 » The British House of Commons passes a vote of no confidence against James Callaghan's government by 1 vote, precipitating a general election.
• April 1 » Iran becomes an Islamic republic by a 99% vote, officially overthrowing the Shah.
• June 1 » The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
• 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.
• July 12 » The island nation of Kiribati becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

The temperature on December 7, 1979 was between 8.6 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 7.1 mm of rain during 4.5 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.