About the day » Wednesday January 16, 1980Calender converter

• Catharina Petronella Hoogervorst (77), Ter Aar
• Alberta B. Bennett (74), Sussex, Sussex Co., New Jersey, Verenigde Staten
• DIRK VAN DUIN (93), WIERINGEN
• Antoon Baptist (82), Heusden-Zolder
• Carel Adriaan Blazer (68), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Anna Smeekens (57), Tilburg
• Derk Uenk (63)
• Aart Willem DUCARDUS (63), gorinchem (breda)
• Cornelis Christiaan Antonius Verschuuren (73), Breda
• Cornelis Maurits Hanemaaijer (79), Den Haag

• 1978 » Alfredo Amézaga, Mexican baseball player
• 1979 » Aaliyah, American singer and actress († 2001)
• 1979 » Brenden Morrow, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1979 » Jason Ward, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 » Albert Pujols, Dominican-American baseball player
• 1980 » Lin-Manuel Miranda, American actor, playwright, and composer
• 1981 » Bobby Zamora, English footballer, striker
• 1981 » Jamie Lundmark, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1981 » Paul Rofe, Australian cricketer
• 1982 » Preston, English singer-songwriter

• 1972 » Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor, created Alvin and the Chipmunks (b. 1919)
• 1972 » Teller Ammons, American soldier and politician, 28th Governor of Colorado (b. 1895)
• 1973 » Edgar Sampson, American musician and composer (b. 1907)
• 1975 » Israel Abramofsky, Russian-American painter (b. 1888)
• 1978 » A. V. Kulasingham, Sri Lankan journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1890)
• 1981 » Bernard Lee, English actor (b. 1908)
• 1983 » Virginia Mauret, American musician and dancer
• 1986 » Herbert W. Armstrong, American evangelist, author, and publisher (b. 1892)
• 1987 » Bertram Wainer, Australian physician and activist (b. 1928)
• 1988 » Andrija Artuković, Croatian politician, war criminal, and Porajmos perpetrator, 1st Minister of Interior of the Independent State of Croatia (b. 1899)

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

1. Maria
2. Sandra
3. Marieke
4. Linda
5. Kim
6. Jennifer
7. Esther
8. Wendy
9. Patricia
10. Jessica
11. Karin
12. Petra
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.
• February 23 » Iran hostage crisis: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran's parliament will decide the fate of the American embassy hostages.
• March 14 » LOT Flight 7 crashes during final approach near Warsaw, Poland, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
• April 2 » United States President Jimmy Carter signs the Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act.
• May 9 » In Florida, Liberian freighter MVSummit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. Thirty-five people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150ft. into the water and die.
• October 17 » As part of the Holy See–United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican.
• December 1 » Ecatepec, State of Mexico, Mexico, becomes a city.

The temperature on January 16, 1980 was between -4.1 °C and -0.1 °C and averaged -2.1 °C. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (34%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.