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• Nathan Leigh HEYWOOD, Essendon, Victoria, Australia († 1984)
• Emile Poell, Sittard,, Limburg, Nederland († 1980)
• Jan Vandecruys, Lier († 2006)
• Thys († 1980)

• Benjamin Vanderklok (74), Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, United States of America
• Madelaine (0), St.Germain, Friesland, Nederland
• Antonius Bertus Brouwer (85), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catherine Agnes Blahnik (80), San Mateo County, California, Verenigde Staten
• Antonius Franciscus van Run (72), Someren
• "Marie Thérèse" Renée Herminie Blanchet de La Sablière (96), Guiscriff, Morbihan, France
• Berend Lange (57), Hilversum
• Annie Laura Wortham Olson (82), Wisconsin
• Alphonse HERINCKX (77), La Hulpe (B)
• Anna Cornelia Wilhelmina Smehuijzen (59), s'Gravenhage

• 1979 » Barney Harwood, English television host and actor
• 1979 » Danny Fonseca, Costa Rican footballer
• 1979 » Jon Peter Lewis, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1979 » Mike Commodore, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1979 » Will Demps, American football player
• 1980 » Gervasio Deferr, Spanish gymnast
• 1980 » James Franklin, New Zealand cricketer
• 1980 » Karthik, Indian singer-songwriter
• 1980 » Luciana Salazar, Argentinian model, actress, and singer
• 1980 » Sergio Bernardo Almirón, Argentinian footballer

• 1974 » Eric Linklater, Welsh-Scottish author and academic (b. 1899)
• 1975 » Piero Dusio, Italian footballer, businessman and race car driver (b. 1899)
• 1978 » Gene Tunney, American boxer and actor (b. 1897)
• 1978 » Jivraj Narayan Mehta, Indian surgeon and politician, 6th Chief Minister of Gujarat (b. 1887)
• 1980 » İlhan Erdost, Turkish publisher (b. 1944)
• 1980 » Steve McQueen, American actor and producer (b. 1930)
• 1981 » Will Durant, American historian and philosopher (b. 1885)
• 1983 » Germaine Tailleferre, French pianist and composer (b. 1892)
• 1986 » Tracy Pew, Australian bass player (b. 1957)
• 1988 » Bill Hoest, American cartoonist (b. 1926)

• 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 17 » First winter ascent of Mount Everest by Krzysztof Wielicki and Leszek Cichy.
• March 4 » Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister.
• July 7 » Institution of sharia law in Iran.
• July 23 » Phạm Tuân becomes the first Vietnamese citizen and the first Asian in space when he flies aboard the Soyuz 37 mission as an Intercosmos Research Cosmonaut.
• August 25 » Zimbabwe joins the United Nations.
• November 12 » The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes the first images of its rings.

The temperature on November 7, 1980 was between -0.6 °C and 0.6 °C and averaged 0.1 °C. There was 8.8 mm of rain during 15.1 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.