About the day » Tuesday January 22, 1980Calender converter

• Mark Stoeten
• Arie van der Tol, Naarden († 1980)
• Nicole Bergner
• Naomi Solange Louwerens, Kerkdriel

• Cornelia Dwars (94), Baarn
• Chellis Nyles Galer (44), West Vancouver, British Columbia
• Carlos Hooft (69), Knesselare, 9910, België
• Anna Maria Van den Broeck (76), Rumst,, Antwerpen, België
• Athur Blassman (74), Pasadena, Los Angeles, California
• Anna Calis (90), Laren, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonius Gijsbertus Henricus Verdonk (80), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Bokke Annes Dijkstra (81), Westergeest
• Arie Verkaik (69), Bradford, Ontario, Canada
• Bokke Dijkstra (81), -

• 1978 » Chone Figgins, American baseball player
• 1979 » Aidan Burley, New Zealand-English politician
• 1979 » Carlos Ruiz, Panamanian baseball player
• 1979 » Chor Boogie, American artist
• 1980 » Jonathan Woodgate, English footballer
• 1981 » Ben Moody, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
• 1981 » Beverley Mitchell, American actress
• 1981 » Guy Wilks, English racing driver
• 1981 » Ibrahima Sonko, French footballer
• 1981 » Willa Ford, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

• 1973 » Lyndon B. Johnson, American lieutenant and politician, 36th President of the United States (b. 1908)
• 1975 » Andrew George Burry, Swiss-American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1873)
• 1977 » Ibrahim bin Abdullah Al Suwaiyel, Saudi Arabian diplomat (b. 1916)
• 1978 » Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer and soldier (b. 1894)
• 1978 » Oliver Leese, English general (b. 1894)
• 1979 » Ali Hassan Salameh, Palestinian rebel leader (b. 1940)
• 1980 » Yitzhak Baer, German-Israeli historian and academic (b. 1888)
• 1981 » Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and academic (b. 1903)
• 1982 » Eduardo Frei Montalva, Chilean lawyer and politician, 28th President of Chile (b. 1911)
• 1985 » Arthur Bryant, English historian and journalist (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. Wendy
8. Esther
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.
• March 14 » LOT Flight 7 crashes during final approach near Warsaw, Poland, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
• March 27 » The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
• April 12 » Transbrasil Flight 303, a Boeing 727, crashes on approach to Hercílio Luz International Airport, in Florianópolis, Brazil. Fifty-five out of the 58 people on board are killed.
• September 23 » Bob Marley plays what would be the last concert of his life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
• October 26 » The Peter Muhlenberg Memorial in Washington, D.C. is dedicated.
• December 24 » Witnesses report the first of several sightings of unexplained lights near RAF Woodbridge, in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, an incident called "Britain's Roswell".

The temperature on January 22, 1980 was between 2.0 °C and 5.3 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.