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• Odile d'Anterroches, Versailles, 78646, France († 1980)
• Herman Laurens Leonard (Rens) Gresnigt, Weert, Limburg, Nederland
• Jermey Lee VanderHoff, Lafayette Tippecanoe Indiana, Verenigde Staten († 1980)
• Jason Thomas Palmerton, Hamburg, Fremont County, Iowa, Verenigde Staten († 2005)
• Krist Goossens

• Anna "Annie" Kelderman (71), Oskaloosa
• Albertine Van Ackere (66), Brugge
• Anna Theresia Wempe (93), Saint-Louis Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Antoon Jozef Bernard Brüll (68), Kerkrade, Nederland
• Adriana Van Den Akker (81), Alblasserdam
• Catharina Maria Reinders (85), Schoorl, Bergen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Berend Carmiggelt (90)
• Anna Irene Kelderman (71), Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa
• Alfred Esch (91), Rotterdam, Zuid Holland
• Bernardus August Maria Nagel (75), Dongen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1979 » Carly Colón, Puerto Rican professional wrestler
• 1979 » Jennifer Love Hewitt, American actress and producer
• 1979 » Jordan Peele, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1979 » Pascal Chimbonda, Guadeloupean-French footballer, defender
• 1979 » Shane Gibson, American guitarist (stOrk and Jonathan Davis and the SFA) († 2014)
• 1980 » Brad Fast, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 » Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, 5th King of Bhutan
• 1980 » Justin Roiland, American animator, writer and voice actor
• 1980 » Tiziano Ferro, Italian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1981 » Floor Jansen, Dutch singer, songwriter, and vocal coach

• 1972 » Bronislava Nijinska, Russian-American dancer and choreographer (b. 1891)
• 1972 » Eugène Tisserant, French cardinal (b. 1884)
• 1972 » Zhang Guohua, Chinese general and politician (b. 1914)
• 1974 » Tim Horton, Canadian ice hockey player and businessman, co-founded Tim Hortons (b. 1930)
• 1980 » Alfred Andersch, German-Swiss author (b. 1914)
• 1982 » Gershom Scholem, German-Israeli historian and philosopher (b. 1897)
• 1984 » Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1985 » Louis Hayward, South African-American actor (b. 1909)
• 1986 » Helen Hooven Santmyer, American novelist (b. 1895)
• 1991 » Dorothy Auchterlonie Green, Australian poet, critic, and academic (b. 1915)

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.
• May 8 » The World Health Organization confirms the eradication of smallpox.
• May 13 » An F3 tornado hits Kalamazoo County, Michigan. President Jimmy Carter declares it a federal disaster area.
• June 3 » An explosive device is detonated at the Statue of Liberty. The FBI suspects Croatian nationalists.
• July 5 » Swedish tennis player Björn Borg wins his fifth Wimbledon final and becomes the first male tennis player to win the championships five times in a row (1976–1980).
• October 17 » As part of the Holy See–United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican.
• October 25 » Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude.

The temperature on February 21, 1980 was between 1.4 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (86%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.