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• Louis André Guy LEGUAY, Amiens,80000,Somme,Picardie,FRANCE († 1979)
• Okke Marijn van APEREN, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1980)
• Emmaljunga Nathanaelle Laetitia Svetlana PATERNOTTE, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2011)

• Berend Schipper (65)
• Antonius Petrus de Bruijn (82), Tilburg
• Catharina Gerarda Antonia Heijman (69), Lage Vuursche
• Dieuwertje de Jager (87)
• Bertha Irene Feagan (80)
• Anetta Christina Broedersz (75)
• Dessie May Terhune (84), Michigan
• André Godchaux (79)
• Cornelia Meester (73)
• Abel Wellinga (81), Steenwijk

• 1977 » Eric Hinske, American baseball player and coach
• 1977 » Mark Mulder, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1977 » Michael Walsh, English footballer
• 1978 » Cosmin Bărcăuan, Romanian footballer and manager
• 1978 » Kim Gevaert, Belgian sprinter
• 1979 » David Healy, Irish footballer
• 1980 » Jason Culina, Australian footballer
• 1980 » Salvador Cabañas, Paraguayan footballer
• 1980 » Wayne Bridge, English footballer
• 1981 » David Clarke, English ice hockey player

• 1968 » Luther Perkins, American guitarist (b. 1928)
• 1978 » Jesse Haines, American baseball player and coach (b. 1893)
• 1980 » Harold L. Runnels, American soldier and politician (b. 1924)
• 1983 » Joan Robinson, English economist and author (b. 1903)
• 1983 » Judy Canova, American actress and comedian (b. 1913)
• 1984 » Richard Burton, Welsh-Swiss actor and producer (b. 1925)
• 1985 » Arnold Horween, American football player and coach (b. 1898)
• 1987 » Georg Gaßmann, German politician, Mayor of Marburg (b. 1910)
• 1991 » Paul Brown, American football player and coach (b. 1908)
• 1991 » Soichiro Honda, Japanese engineer and businessman, founded Honda (b. 1906)

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.
• May 4 » Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• May 25 » John Spenkelink, a convicted murderer, is executed in Florida; he is the first person to be executed in the state after the reintroduction of capital punishment in 1976.
• May 30 » Downeast Flight 46 crashes on approach to Knox County Regional Airport in Rockland, Maine, killing 17.
• June 20 » ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart is shot dead by a Nicaraguan soldier under the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. The murder is caught on tape and sparks an international outcry against the regime.
• July 25 » In accord with the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty, Israel begins its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula.
• November 4 » Iran hostage crisis: A group of Iranian college students overruns the U.S. embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages.

The temperature on August 5, 1979 was between 9.2 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 10.2 hours of sunshine (67%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.