About the day » Monday October 6, 1980Calender converter

• Marleen Bombaerts, Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, België
• Philippa Maria Sophia Thaddea van Aretin, Haus Ermelinghof, Hövel, Hamm, Nordrhein-Westfalen († 1985)
• Marc Anthony Enriquez, California, United States of America († 1996)
• Andrew Dallas Schmedeke, Springfield († 2010)

• CAROLINA CATHARINA VAN SWEEVELT (88), NEERIJSE
• Amy Mary COLK (93), Tasmania, Australia
• Charles Thomas Anthony Herlevic (71), El Cajon, San Diego, California, United States of America
• Alida Wouterina Solinger (70), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Désiré Silly (81), Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, France
• Benjamin de Andrade Mourão (78), São José dos Pinhais, Paraná, Brasil
• Duurt Jacobs Hut (66), Nuis
• Adriana Cornelia van Roozendaal (84), Dongen
• Egbert Jan Frederik Rosenboom (78)
• Bertha Dribbel (82), Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1978 » Carolina Gynning, Swedish model, actress, and singer
• 1979 » David Di Tommaso, French footballer († 2005)
• 1979 » Mohamed Kallon, Sierra Leonean footballer and manager
• 1979 » Pascal van Assendelft, Dutch sprinter
• 1979 » Richard Seymour, American football player
• 1980 » Abdoulaye Méïté, French footballer
• 1980 » Arnaud Coyot, French cyclist († 2013)
• 1980 » Wes Durston, English cricketer
• 1981 » José Luis Perlaza, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1981 » Zurab Khizanishvili, Georgian footballer

• 1974 » Helmuth Koinigg, Austrian race car driver (b. 1948)
• 1976 » Gilbert Ryle, English philosopher and author (b. 1900)
• 1978 » Johnny O'Keefe, Australian singer-songwriter (b. 1935)
• 1979 » Elizabeth Bishop, American poet and short-story writer (b. 1911)
• 1980 » Hattie Jacques, English actress and producer (b. 1922)
• 1980 » Jean Robic, French cyclist (b. 1921)
• 1981 » Anwar Sadat, Egyptian colonel and politician, 3rd President of Egypt, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 1983 » Terence Cooke, American cardinal (b. 1921)
• 1985 » Nelson Riddle, American composer, conductor, and bandleader (b. 1921)
• 1986 » Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1921)

• 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.
• January 27 » Through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly escape hostilities in Iran in the culmination of the Canadian Caper.
• March 21 » U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet–Afghan War.
• May 20 » In a referendum in Quebec, the population rejects, by 60% of the vote, a government proposal to move towards independence from Canada.
• August 25 » Zimbabwe joins the United Nations.
• October 2 » Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War.
• December 11 » The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (Superfund) is enacted by the U.S. Congress.

The temperature on October 6, 1980 was between 10.4 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 7.4 mm of rain during 4.5 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.