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• paul verhaeg, helden-beringe
• Susanne Marieke Baas, Schagen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Mathilde Elisabeth Henrika Petronella Busio, Sittard († 2003)
• Niels Boersma

• Cornelia Spooren (84), Sint-Michielsgestel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Ad Pullens (53), Bernkastelkues (DE)
• Aaltje (Alice) Oldenhof (80), Lacombe, Alberta, Canada
• Antonie Wilhelmine Bernardine Hijstek (70)
• Apolonia van Doeselaar (85), Breda, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
• Anna Adriana Veen, van der (70), Tiel
• Cornelia Horstman (68), Rotterdam
• Anna Adriana van der Veen (70), Tiel, Provincie Gelderland
• Adrian Juran Terlouw (41), Tres Arroyos, Argentinië
• Alma David Clementina Van Mol (70), St-Anna kliniek, Beveren-Waas

• 1977 » Sam Esmail, American screenwriter
• 1977 » Simone Perrotta, Italian footballer
• 1979 » Akin Ayodele, American football player
• 1979 » Flo Rida, American rapper
• 1979 » Steffen Algreen, Danish footballer
• 1980 » Dan Haren, American baseball player
• 1980 » Oliver Risser, Namibian footballer
• 1980 » Shabana Mahmood, English lawyer and politician, Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
• 1981 » Bakari Koné, Ivorian footballer
• 1981 » Casey Janssen, American baseball player

• 1971 » Carlos Lamarca, Brazilian captain (b. 1937)
• 1972 » Akim Tamiroff, American actor (b. 1899)
• 1973 » Hugo Winterhalter, American bandleader and composer (b. 1909)
• 1975 » Nicola Moscona, Greek-American singer-songwriter (b. 1907)
• 1980 » Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Nicaraguan commander and politician, 73rd President of Nicaragua (b. 1925)
• 1982 » Manos Loïzos, Egyptian-Greek composer (b. 1937)
• 1983 » Humberto Sousa Medeiros, Portuguese-American cardinal (b. 1915)
• 1984 » Richard Basehart, American actor and director (b. 1914)
• 1985 » Laura Ashley, Welsh fashion designer, founded Laura Ashley plc (b. 1925)
• 1987 » Harry Locke, English actor (b. 1913)

• 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 11 » The Iranian Revolution establishes an Islamic theocracy under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
• February 17 » The Sino-Vietnamese War begins.
• March 8 » Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time.
• July 9 » A car bomb destroys a Renault motor car owned by "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld outside their home in France in an unsuccessful assassination attempt.
• July 11 » America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
• October 1 » The MTR, the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong, opens.

The temperature on September 17, 1979 was between 8.9 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.