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

• Aimé Haverbeke (58), Aalst (B)
• Charlie A. Aldrich (69), Fairland, Ottawa, Oklahoma, Verenigde Staten
• Antonie Johannes Boks (70), Beekbergen
• * Huibrecht Poot (83), Lage Vuurse
• Anna Jacoba Fredrica van Es (69), Bussum
• Adriana van Eendenburg (87), Pijnacker, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Divera Rinkel (73), Venhuizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland Nederland
• Adelheid (Heinrich Fehrmann) Bölle (84), Wesuwermoor
• Berend Musch (68), Amsterdam
• Anje Leeuw (85), Uithuizen, Groningen, Nederland

• 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)

• 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 24 » The United States Olympic hockey team completes its Miracle on Ice by defeating Finland 4–2 to win the gold medal.
• February 29 » Gordie Howe of the Hartford Whalers makes NHL history as he scores his 800th goal.
• 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.
• 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.
• July 24 » The Quietly Confident Quartet of Australia wins the men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the Moscow Olympics, the only time the United States has not won the event at Olympic level.
• November 4 » Ronald Reagan is elected the 40th President of The United States, defeating incumbent Jimmy Carter.

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.