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• Herman Wayne Todd Jr, Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten († 2009)
• Jessica Rison, Enschede († 2015)
• Eddie Tol († 1992)
• Rianne Wimdr Keizer, Hilversum († 1983)
• Chris Langedijk († 1993)
• Bas Verkleij († 1979)

• Dingeman Antonius Stoop (47), Dongen, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Conrad (81), Amsterdam
• Emiel Guilielmus Celis (76), Leuven
• David Kersell Laidlaw (76), East Rosanna, Victoria, Australia
• Albert Edgar Cullen (84), Billinghay, Langoe Wapentake, Lincs
• Egbert Louis Marie van Wensen (51), Haarlem,Gemeente Haarlem,North Holland,Netherlands
• Albert Uneken (66), Zwolle, Nederland
• Bernardus Jansen (54), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Agatha Wilhelmina Margaretha Bodewes (74), Zuidlaren, Nederland
• Anne Schildhouse (72), Grand Rapids Michigan, Verenigde Staten

• 1975 » Brian Littrell, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1975 » Liván Hernández, Cuban baseball player
• 1977 » Gail Kim, Canadian professional wrestler
• 1977 » Stephon Marbury, American basketball player
• 1978 » Lauren Ambrose, American actress and producer
• 1980 » Imanol Harinordoquy, French rugby player
• 1980 » Luis Gabriel Rey, Colombian footballer
• 1981 » Fred Jackson, American football player
• 1981 » Tony Hibbert, English footballer
• 1982 » Jason Hirsh, American baseball player

• 1966 » Chester W. Nimitz, American admiral (b. 1885)
• 1968 » Anthony Asquith, English director and screenwriter (b. 1902)
• 1969 » Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (b. 1883)
• 1972 » Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 1972 » Walter Winchell, American journalist and actor (b. 1897)
• 1976 » Kathryn Kuhlman, healing evangelist, known for belief in Holy Spirit (b. 1907)
• 1976 » René Cassin, French lawyer and judge, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1981 » Nicolas de Gunzburg, French-American banker and publisher (b. 1904)
• 1987 » Wayne Boring, American illustrator (b. 1905)
• 1992 » A. J. Casson, Canadian painter (b. 1898)

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 16 » The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt.
• 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.
• June 2 » Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
• July 19 » The oil tanker SS Atlantic Empress collides with another oil tanker, causing the largest ever ship-borne oil spill.
• September 14 » Afghan President Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new president.
• November 16 » The first line of Bucharest Metro (Line M1) is opened from Timpuri Noi to Semănătoarea in Bucharest, Romania.

The temperature on February 20, 1979 was between -2.4 °C and -0.6 °C and averaged -1.5 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.