About the day » Saturday October 4, 1980Calender converter

• Ewald Harmen Zwiers, Hoorn
• Christopher Race Price, unbekannt († 2007)

• Aimé Haverbeke (58), Aalst
• Arthur William Runge (83), Harvey, Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Albertus Tersteeg (89), IJsselstein
• Charlie A. Aldrich (69), Fairland, Ottawa, Oklahoma, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelis Johannes Henricus Vermeer (74), Tilburg
• Armandine Eleonore Francoise Clavier (76), ede
• Arnoldus Petrus Bakx (76), Oosterhout
• Anna Jacoba Fredrica van Es (69), Bussum
• Audrey Phelps (52)
• ADRIANA VAN EENDENBURG (87), PIJNACKER

• 1978 » Kei Horie, Japanese actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1978 » Phillip Glasser, American actor and producer
• 1979 » Adam Voges, Australian cricketer
• 1979 » Björn Phau, German tennis player
• 1979 » Rachael Leigh Cook, American actress
• 1980 » James Jones, American basketball player
• 1980 » Sarah Fisher, American race car driver
• 1980 » Tomáš Rosický, Czech footballer
• 1981 » Justin Williams, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1981 » Shaura, Japanese singer

• 1970 » Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
• 1974 » Anne Sexton, American poet and author (b. 1928)
• 1975 » Joan Whitney Payson, American businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1903)
• 1977 » José Ber Gelbard, Argentinian activist and politician (b. 1917)
• 1980 » Pyotr Masherov, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia (b. 1918)
• 1981 » Freddie Lindstrom, American baseball player and coach (b. 1905)
• 1982 » Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and conductor (b. 1932)
• 1982 » Stefanos Stefanopoulos, Greek politician, 165th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1898)
• 1988 » Zlatko Grgić, Croatian-Canadian animator, director, and screenwriter (b. 1931)
• 1989 » Graham Chapman, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1941)

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.
• February 2 » Reports surface that the FBI is targeting allegedly corrupt Congressmen in the Abscam operation.
• February 26 » Egypt and Israel establish full diplomatic relations.
• February 29 » Gordie Howe of the Hartford Whalers makes NHL history as he scores his 800th goal.
• 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.
• June 27 » The 'Ustica massacre': Itavia Flight 870 crashes in the sea while en route from Bologna to Palermo, Italy, killing all 81 on board.
• August 26 » After John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada, in the United States, the FBI inadvertently detonates the bomb during its disarming.

The temperature on October 4, 1980 was between 5.2 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (19%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.