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• Ilona Hagen, Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Marloes Rüth († 1986)
• Jan Willem van der Pauw, Den Helder

• Antje Kroon (75)
• Anna Margaret Bucy (76), Dade City, Dade County, Florida
• Bernardus Jacobus van Erp (87), Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Annechina Harders (79), Buinerveen (Borger)
• Adriana Johanna Hubregtse (85), Middelburg
• Bernard Gabriel Jean d'Harcourt (94)
• Alexandra Maria Gemma Mommersteeg (43), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Aaltje Post (87), Bergentheim
• Auke van Dekken (70), Drachten, Friesland, Nederland
• Antonia van Bruggencate (73), Amsterdam

• 1978 » Tim Harding, Australian singer and actor
• 1979 » Jason Isbell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1979 » Juan Silveira dos Santos, Brazilian footballer
• 1979 » Valentín Elizalde, Mexican singer-songwriter († 2006)
• 1980 » Héctor Luna, Dominican baseball player
• 1980 » Moisés Muñoz, Mexican footballer
• 1980 » Otilino Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer († 2005)
• 1981 » Christian Giménez, Argentinian footballer
• 1981 » Graeme Smith, South African cricketer
• 1981 » Hins Cheung, Hong Kong singer-songwriter

• 1968 » Echol Cole and Robert Walker - sparking the Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike
• 1970 » Alfréd Rényi, Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1921)
• 1976 » George Whipple, American physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1878)
• 1976 » Werner Heisenberg, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
• 1979 » Abdi İpekçi, Turkish journalist and activist (b. 1929)
• 1981 » Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American engineer and businessman, founded the Douglas Aircraft Company (b. 1892)
• 1981 » Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian pianist and composer (b. 1908)
• 1986 » Alva Myrdal, Swedish sociologist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1987 » Alessandro Blasetti, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1900)
• 1989 » Elaine de Kooning, American painter and academic (b. 1918)

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.
• January 29 » The Rubik's Cube makes its international debut at the Ideal Toy Corp. in Earl's Court, London.
• March 23 » Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador gives his famous speech appealing to men of the El Salvadoran armed forces to stop killing the Salvadorans.
• 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 14 » Salvadoran Civil War: the Sumpul River massacre occurs in Chalatenango, El Salvador.
• May 18 » Students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations calling for democratic reforms.
• December 8 » Former Beatle John Lennon is murdered in front of The Dakota in New York City.

The temperature on February 1, 1980 was between -0.9 °C and 4.0 °C and averaged 1.3 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (72%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.