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• Samson Visscher
• Karla Joy Buzeman, Middlebury, Vermont, Verenigde Staten
• Jeroen Spijker, Dedemsvaart († 2001)

• Angelique ROHMER (80), Mulhouse (68200, Haut-Rhin, France)
• Caroline Thales McDonald (93), Hamilton, St. Clair, Alabama, United States
• Cornelia Stoppelenburg (87), Moordrecht
• Aukjen Antje Smit (76), Alphen aan den Rijn
• Damianus Johannes van der Poel (83), Noordwijkerhout, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Gezina Kuijsten (83), Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Annie Stuart (88)
• Catharina Johanna (Rina) Empelen van (83), Heemstede, NH, Nederland
• Ana de Albuquerque Lins (84)
• Catharina Maria VAN DEN NIEUWENHOF (87), Eindhoven

• 1978 » Travis Henry, American football player
• 1979 » Andrew-Lee Potts, English actor, director, and producer
• 1979 » Ignasi Giménez Renom, Catalan lawyer and politician
• 1980 » Ben Foster, American actor
• 1980 » Kaine Robertson, New Zealand-Italian rugby player
• 1980 » Nadejda Ostrovskaya, Belarusian tennis player
• 1981 » Amanda Beard, American swimmer
• 1981 » Angelika dela Cruz, Filipino actress and singer
• 1981 » Georgios Fotakis, Greek footballer
• 1981 » Jonathan Brown, Australian footballer

• 1969 » Pops Foster, American bassist and trumpet player (b. 1892)
• 1971 » Arne Tiselius, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1971 » Duane Allman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1946)
• 1977 » Chiyonoyama Masanobu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 41st Yokozuna (b. 1926)
• 1980 » Giorgio Borġ Olivier, Maltese lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1911)
• 1981 » Georges Brassens, French singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1921)
• 1986 » Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor, singer, and academic (b. 1913)
• 1987 » Woody Herman, American singer, clarinet player, saxophonist, and bandleader (b. 1913)
• 1988 » Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Indian author and activist (b. 1903)
• 1993 » Lipman Bers, Latvian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1914)

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.
• March 18 » A Vostok-2M rocket at Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 43 explodes during a fueling operation, killing 48 people.
• May 20 » In a referendum in Quebec, the population rejects, by 60% of the vote, a government proposal to move towards independence from Canada.
• 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.
• September 17 » Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Asunción, Paraguay.
• October 10 » The 7.1 M_w  El Asnam earthquake shakes northern Algeria, killing 2,633 and injuring 8,369.
• October 17 » As part of the Holy See–United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican.

The temperature on October 29, 1980 was between 8.3 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.