About the day » Tuesday February 26, 1980Calender converter

• Craig Howard Kittrell <K ObPqFgmMSBu>K3, Scott County, Mississippi op († 1998)
• Dieuwke Catharina Smeding, Diemen, North Holland, Netherlands
• Frank Brouwers, Berlicum, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Joshua Allan van den Burg, Fort Dodge, Iowa († 2022)

• Adriaan Pieter van Twisk (78), Amersfoort
• Aart Ottow (85), Zeist
• Adrianus Van Der Stoep (68), Poortugaal
• Arie Strootman (91), Roosendaal
• Albert Max Joosten (65), Amsterdam
• Alie Bruijn (77), Winkel
• Anna Maria Wilhelmina van der Hulst (88), Lisse
• Aart Hendrik (Aart) den Braber (88), Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adolph Lyle Jacobson (88), Daly City, San Mateo, California, Verenigde Staten
• Aart Hendrik den Braber (88), rotterdam (zuid holland)

• 1978 » Abdoulaye Faye, Senegalese footballer
• 1979 » Corinne Bailey Rae, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1979 » Pedro Mendes, Portuguese international footballer, midfielder
• 1979 » Steve Evans, Welsh footballer
• 1980 » Steve Blake, American basketball player
• 1981 » Kertus Davis, American race car driver
• 1981 » Oh Seung-bum, South Korean footballer
• 1982 » Li Na, Chinese tennis player
• 1982 » Matt Prior, South African-English cricketer
• 1982 » Nate Ruess, American singer-songwriter

• 1966 » Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian poet and politician (b. 1883)
• 1969 » Karl Jaspers, German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher (b. 1883)
• 1969 » Levi Eshkol, Israeli soldier and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1895)
• 1981 » Howard Hanson, American composer, conductor, and educator (b. 1896)
• 1981 » Robert Aickman, English author and activist (b. 1914)
• 1985 » Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-American economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 1989 » Roy Eldridge, American trumpet player (b. 1911)
• 1993 » Constance Ford, American model and actress (b. 1923)
• 1994 » Bill Hicks, American comedian (b. 1961)
• 1995 » Jack Clayton, English director and producer (b. 1921)

1. Jan
2. Jeroen
3. Peter
4. Johannes
5. Michael
6. Mark
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. Judith

• 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.
• February 26 » Egypt and Israel establish full diplomatic relations.
• April 12 » The Americo-Liberian government of Liberia is violently deposed.
• May 17 » On the eve of presidential elections, Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path attacks a polling location in Chuschi (a town in Ayacucho), starting the Internal conflict in Peru.
• October 10 » The 7.1 M_w  El Asnam earthquake shakes northern Algeria, killing 2,633 and injuring 8,369.
• 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 February 26, 1980 was between 0.8 °C and 5.3 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.