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• Filip Amandina, Petrus De Backer, Dendermonde
• Nicholas Anthony Ferris, LAS VEGAS, CLARK COUNTY, NEVADA, Verenigde Staten († 1981)

• Christiaan Arnoldus Lauterslager (86), Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Antonius Franciscus Willem Verdu (52), Voorburg
• Alice Mary Knox (81)
• Berend Jan Matel (79), Gramsbergen
• Annie Friederichs (75), Port-Chester NY (U.S.A.), Verenigde Staten van Amerika
• Adriana de Rijder (86), Rilland, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adrianus Antonius Metselaar (67), Voorburg
• Anthonius Klaver (92), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Clarence Everett Davis (57), Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, Verenigde Staten
• Adriana Van Velthoven (70), Bergen Op Zoom, Bergen Op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1978 » Enrique Bernoldi, Brazilian race car driver
• 1978 » Henri Sorvali, Finnish guitarist and keyboard player
• 1978 » Zakhar Dubensky, Russian footballer
• 1979 » Brian Robertson, American trombonist
• 1979 » José Luis López, Mexican footballer
• 1979 » Sachiko Sugiyama, Japanese volleyball player
• 1980 » José Bautista, Dominican baseball player
• 1980 » Rajai Davis, American baseball player
• 1981 » Heikki Kovalainen, Finnish race car driver
• 1981 » Leon Bott, Australian rugby league player

• 1970 » Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexican general and politician, 44th President of Mexico (b. 1895)
• 1978 » Gig Young, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1983 » Maurice Bishop, Aruban-Grenadian lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1944)
• 1984 » Jerzy Popiełuszko, Polish priest and activist (b. 1947)
• 1985 » Alfred Rouleau, Canadian businessman (b. 1915)
• 1986 » Dele Giwa, Nigerian journalist, co-founded Newswatch Magazine (b. 1947)
• 1986 » Samora Machel, Mozambican commander and politician, 1st President of Mozambique (b. 1933)
• 1987 » Hermann Lang, German race car driver (b. 1909)
• 1987 » Jacqueline du Pré, English cellist and educator (b. 1945)
• 1988 » Son House, American singer and guitarist (b. 1902)

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 23 » Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador gives his famous speech appealing to men of the El Salvadoran armed forces to stop killing the Salvadorans.
• May 17 » On the eve of presidential elections, Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path attacks a polling location in Chuschi (a town in Ayacucho), starting the Internal conflict in Peru.
• 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 19 » Saudia Flight 163, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar burns after making an emergency landing at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing 301 people.
• 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.
• November 23 » The 6.9 M_w  Irpinia earthquake shakes southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 2,483–4,900, and injuring 7,700–8,934.

The temperature on October 19, 1980 was between 1.7 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 9.8 mm of rain during 6.4 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (24%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.