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• Egbertus van Tienen (85), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Alphons Jacobus Augustinus Herrings (79), Bergen op Zoom
• Alphons Jacobus Augustinus HERRINGS (79), Bergen op Zoom (NL/NB)
• Aarnout Cornelis de Ruijter (86), Terneuzen
• Arie Oudshoorn (72)
• Cornelia Elisabeth Berdina van Sterkenburg (55), Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Andries Joukes de Jong (87), Heerenveen, Gem. Heerenveen, Friesland, Nederland
• Carolina Emma Lapré (80), Amsterdam,Gemeente Amsterdam,North Holland,Netherlands
• Aldegonda Nothburga (Gonnie) Damen (56), Doetinchem
• Eskens (70), Gemeente Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1979 » Colin Grzanna, German rugby player and surgeon
• 1979 » David Suazo, Honduran footballer and coach
• 1979 » Keith McLeod, American basketball player
• 1979 » Michalis Hatzigiannis, Cypriot singer-songwriter and producer
• 1979 » Romi Dames, Japanese-American actress
• 1980 » Andrei Korobeinik, Estonian computer programmer, businessman, and politician
• 1980 » Christoph Metzelder, German footballer
• 1980 » Jaime Camara, Brazilian race car driver
• 1980 » Orkun Uşak, Turkish footballer
• 1981 » Paul Chapman, Australian footballer

• 1975 » Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer and actress (b. 1887)
• 1975 » Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1909)
• 1975 » Lionel Trilling, American critic, essayist, short story writer, and educator (b. 1905)
• 1977 » Alexey Stakhanov, Russian-Soviet miner, the Stakhanovite movement has been named after him (b. 1906)
• 1977 » Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American violinist and conductor (b. 1902)
• 1977 » René Goscinny, French author and illustrator (b. 1926)
• 1979 » Al Capp, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
• 1980 » Louis Alter, American musician (b. 1902)
• 1981 » Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa, Tibetan spiritual leader (b. 1924)
• 1985 » Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist and philologist (b. 1898)

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.
• April 12 » Transbrasil Flight 303, a Boeing 727, crashes on approach to Hercílio Luz International Airport, in Florianópolis, Brazil. Fifty-five out of the 58 people on board are killed.
• July 29 » Iran adopts a new "holy" flag after the Islamic Revolution.
• August 14 » Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
• November 21 » A deadly fire breaks out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Paradise, Nevada (now Bally's Las Vegas). Eighty-seven people are killed and more than 650 are injured in the worst disaster in Nevada history.
• November 28 » Iran–Iraq War: Operation Morvarid: The bulk of the Iraqi Navy is destroyed by the Iranian Navy in the Persian Gulf. (Commemorated in Iran as Navy Day.)
• December 8 » Former Beatle John Lennon is murdered in front of The Dakota in New York City.

The temperature on November 5, 1980 was between -4.0 °C and 1.4 °C and averaged -0.8 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.