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• Ségolène Jousseaume de La Bretesche († 1980)
• Caroline Patronoudis († 2016)

• Etienne de Géradon (80), Etterbeek (Bruxelles)
• Geertje Harms Roeters (87), Grootegast
• Aron Paauw de (77), Amsterdam, NH, Nederland
• Evangeliste Robilard (84), Cook, Illinois, United States
• Clarice Nellie EYLES (80), Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
• Geert Scholten (61), Oosterhesselen,Drenthe,Niederlande
• Frederika Hendriks (84), Bennebroek
• Anna Hendrika Bosman (88), Aalten, Gelderland, Nederland
• Bessie Marguerite Konvalin (87), Crown Point, Lake, Indiana, Verenigde Staten
• Etienne de GÉRADON (80), Etterbeek, 1040, Région Bruxelles-Capitale, Belgique

• 1979 » Edgar Sosa, Mexican boxer
• 1979 » Jessica Bibby, Australian basketball player
• 1979 » Saskia Clark, English sailor
• 1979 » Zuzana Váleková, Slovak tennis player
• 1980 » Denny Bautista, Dominican baseball player
• 1980 » Nadine Jolie Courtney, American journalist, reality personality and author
• 1980 » Nenad Vučković, Serbian handball player
• 1980 » Rex Grossman, American football player
• 1981 » Carlos Cuéllar, Spanish footballer
• 1981 » Stephan Loboué, Ivorian footballer

• 1967 » Georges Berger, Belgian race car driver (b. 1918)
• 1967 » Nathaniel Cartmell, American runner and coach (b. 1883)
• 1974 » Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist and author (b. 1888)
• 1975 » Faruk Gürler, Turkish general (b. 1913)
• 1977 » Naum Gabo, Russian sculptor and academic (b. 1890)
• 1982 » Stanford Moore, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• 1987 » Didier Pironi, French race car and boat driver (b. 1952)
• 1989 » Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese poet and academic (b. 1944)
• 1989 » R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist and author (b. 1927)
• 1990 » David Rose, American pianist and composer (b. 1910)

1. Jan
2. Jeroen
3. Peter
4. Johannes
5. Michael
6. Mark
7. David
8. Martijn
9. Dennis
10. Bart
11. Paul
12. Richard
13. Robert
14. Pieter
15. Patrick
16. Wouter

1. Maria
2. Sandra
3. Marieke
4. Linda
5. Kim
6. Wendy
7. Jennifer
8. Esther
9. Patricia
10. Jessica
11. Petra
12. Karin
13. Anna
14. Sarah
15. Monique
16. Johanna

• 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)
• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 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 14.1 million citizens.
• January 27 » Through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly escape hostilities in Iran in the culmination of the Canadian Caper.
• March 24 » El Salvadorian Archbishop Óscar Romero is assassinated while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.
• April 2 » United States President Jimmy Carter signs the Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act.
• April 24 » Eight U.S. servicemen die in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis.
• May 9 » In Norco, California, five masked gunmen hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.
• September 22 » Iraq invades Iran.

The temperature on August 23, 1980 was between 10.5 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (18%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.