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• Betty Eveline Daniëlle Allegaert, Kortrijk, West-Vlaanderen, België († 2010)
• Jeroen van der Schans, het ziekenhuis 'Parkzicht' in den Helder, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1980)
• José van Rijnsoever, Waarder († 1990)

• Arnolda L.H. Koek (49)
• Antje Ludwig (88), Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Nederland The Netherlands
• Geertruide Schallies (93), Johannesburg, Zuid-Afrika
• Cornelis Nicolaas Maria Verweij (63), Noordwijk
• Cornelis Rietveld (67), Leiden
• Albertus Wouterus Hompes (87), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Elizabeth Pirets (70)
• Clara Roos (84), Den Haag
• Antje Henderika Wiers (79), Winschoten, Groningen, Netherlands
• Catharina Wilhelmina van Opijnen (64), Kent County, Michigan (USA)

• 1976 » David Berkeley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1976 » Mo Collins, American football player and coach († 2014)
• 1978 » Harry Kewell, Australian footballer and coach
• 1979 » Emilie Autumn, American singer-songwriter, violinist, and poet
• 1979 » Phil Waugh, Australian rugby player
• 1980 » Francesco D'Isa, Italian painter and journalist
• 1980 » Svenja Weidemann, German tennis player
• 1981 » Alexei Ramírez, Cuban baseball player
• 1981 » Ingrid Vetlesen, Norwegian soprano
• 1981 » Subaru Shibutani, Japanese singer-songwriter

• 1969 » Adolfo López Mateos, Mexican politician, 48th President of Mexico (b. 1909)
• 1973 » Paul van Zeeland, Belgian lawyer, economist, and politician, 38th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1893)
• 1979 » Abul A'la Maududi, Pakistani theologian, Islamic scholar and jurist (b. 1903)
• 1981 » Harry Warren, American composer and songwriter (b. 1893)
• 1987 » Dan Rowan, American actor, comedian, and producer (b. 1922)
• 1987 » Hákun Djurhuus, Faroese educator and politician, 4th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1908)
• 1988 » Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani psychoanalyst, scholar, and poet (b. 1914)
• 1989 » Ambrose Folorunsho Alli, Nigerian academic and politician (b. 1929)
• 1989 » Irving Berlin, Russian-born American composer and songwriter (b. 1888)
• 1992 » Aurelio López, Mexican baseball player (b. 1948)

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.
• March 19 » The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.
• April 2 » A Soviet bio-warfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores, killing 66 plus an unknown amount of livestock.
• 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.
• October 12 » The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg), occurred in the western Pacific Ocean during Typhoon Tip.
• 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.

The temperature on September 22, 1979 was between 2.9 °C and 14.6 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (72%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.