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• Dean van der Helm († 2002)
• Stefan Kruk, van der, Zoetermeer († 1999)

• Adriana Elisabeth Johanna Antonia Otten (67), Tilburg
• August Soels (74), Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe, Vlaams-Brabant, België
• Anna Margaretha Mulder (84)
• Anna Catharina Strijp (78), Maastricht
• Annetje Vlijm (82), Ermelo
• Bernardina Maria Hendrika Nijhuis (op Hakenberg) (68), De Lutte
• "Rudolf" George Escher (68), De Koog, Texel, Pays-Bas
• Antonius Chistiaan Jeurisse (69), Millingen aan de Rijn, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antje Kok (71)
• A.H. Meesters (37), Oss, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• 1979 » Andrew Ference, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1979 » Samoa Joe, American professional wrestler
• 1979 » Stephen Kramer Glickman, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and fashion designer
• 1979 » Stormy Daniels, born Stephanie Gregory, American adult film actress
• 1980 » Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, Pakistani tennis player
• 1980 » Danny Califf, American soccer player
• 1981 » Aaron Baddeley, American-Australian golfer
• 1981 » Kyle Korver, American basketball player
• 1981 » Nicky Jam, American-Puerto-Rican singer and songwriter
• 1981 » Servet Çetin, Turkish footballer

• 1974 » Louis Kahn, American architect and academic, designed Jatiyo Sangsad Bhaban (b. 1901)
• 1976 » Luchino Visconti, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• 1981 » Paul Dean, American baseball player (b. 1913)
• 1983 » Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1983 » Louisa E. Rhine, American botanist and parapsychologist (b. 1891)
• 1986 » Clarence D. Lester, African-American fighter pilot (b.1923)
• 1990 » Capucine, French model and actress (b. 1928)
• 1992 » Grace Stafford, American actress (b. 1903)
• 1993 » Helen Hayes, American actress (b. 1900)
• 1994 » Mai Zetterling, Swedish-English actress and director (b. 1925)

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. Esther
8. Wendy
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 26 » Egypt–Israel relations are formally established.
• February 2 » Reports surface that the FBI is targeting allegedly corrupt Congressmen in the Abscam operation.
• February 28 » Andalusia approves its statute of autonomy through a referendum.
• May 9 » In Norco, California, five masked gunmen hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.
• May 14 » Salvadoran Civil War: the Sumpul River massacre occurs in Chalatenango, El Salvador.
• June 10 » The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.

The temperature on March 17, 1980 was between 3.9 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.