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• Tamara Mireille Hin († 2023)
• Richard Orla GARRINGER, Randolph County († 1980)
• Norma J. Bishop [sPHs], Fairfield, Freestone County, Texas († 1980)
• Sarah Joy van der Ark

• Adrianus Johannes de Craen (72), Princenhage,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Hubertina Janssens (89), Roermond, Limburg, Netherlands
• Alida Catharina Mathilda Hooijkaas (79), Amsterdam
• Anna Magdalena van Bezouwen (92), Rotterdam
• Arent Krikke (91)
• Andreas Doornekamp (60), Harderwijk
• Andries Ouwendijk (52), Delft, Nederland
• Anje Nieborg (71), Ten Boer,, Groningen, Nederland
• Adrianus Leonardus Walterus Cools (76), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg
• Antoon Jozef Wolters (65), Kerkrade

• 1979 » Blue Adams, American football player and coach
• 1979 » Bohemia, Pakistani-American rapper and producer
• 1979 » Jaci Velasquez, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1979 » Jekaterina Golovatenko, Estonian figure skater
• 1979 » Māris Verpakovskis, Latvian footballer
• 1979 » Paul Robinson, English footballer
• 1980 » Siiri Nordin, Finnish singer-songwriter
• 1980 » Tom Boonen, Belgian cyclist
• 1981 » Elena Dementieva, Russian tennis player
• 1981 » Keyshia Cole, American singer-songwriter and producer

• 1976 » Carlo Gambino, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1902)
• 1978 » W. Eugene Smith, American photojournalist (b. 1918)
• 1980 » Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek footballer and volleyball player (b. 1896)
• 1980 » Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1900)
• 1981 » Philip Fotheringham-Parker, English race car driver (b. 1907)
• 1983 » Pat O'Brien, American actor (b. 1899)
• 1987 » Donald Wandrei, American author and poet (b. 1908)
• 1987 » Thomas Sankara, Burkinabe captain and politician, 5th President of Burkina Faso (b. 1949)
• 1988 » Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English pianist, composer, and critic (b. 1892)
• 1989 » Danilo Kiš, Serbian novelist, short story writer, essayist and translator. (b. 1935)

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.
• February 23 » Iran hostage crisis: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran's parliament will decide the fate of the American embassy hostages.
• April 3 » US Congress restores a federal trust relationship with the 501 members of the Shvwits, Kanosh, Koosharem, and the Indian Peaks and Cedar City bands of the Paiute people of Utah.
• April 30 » Beatrix is inaugurated as Queen of the Netherlands following the abdication of Juliana.
• June 3 » The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak hits Nebraska, causing five deaths and $300million (equivalent to $931million in 2019) worth of damage.
• October 2 » Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War.
• December 2 » Salvadoran Civil War: Four American missionaries are raped and murdered by a death squad.

The temperature on October 15, 1980 was between -0.2 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??.