About the day » Sunday March 2, 1980Calender converter

• Nelien Mur, Woerden († 1980)
• Carine Danielle Marie Philippe HANON († 1990)
• Jacob Zwaan († 1980)
• Johanna A. Fokke († 1981)

• Catherine Fraser (78), Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
• Antje van Zalen (82), -
• Basil Michael McGuire (68), Detroit, Michigan (USA)
• Andrew Jackson Hendrix, Sr (76)
• Anna Catharina Hasevoets (85), Hasselt, België
• Andries Hendrikus van der Kooi (68), Oosterlittens, Baarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Adrianus Franciscus BEERENDONK (78), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Constance Kitty Helena Tobias (99), Nunspeet,Nunspeet,Gelderland,Nederland
• Alexander Milne Unknown (68), Juniper Green, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
• Andries van der Kooi (68)

• 1978 » Gabby Eigenmann, Filipino actor and singer
• 1978 » Lee Hodges, English footballer and manager
• 1979 » Damien Duff, Irish international footballer, winger
• 1979 » Gayatri Asokan, Indian playback singer
• 1979 » Jim Troughton, English cricketer
• 1979 » Nicky Weaver, English footballer
• 1980 » Chris Barker, English footballer and manager († 2020)
• 1980 » Rebel Wilson, Australian actress and screenwriter
• 1981 » Bryce Dallas Howard, American actress
• 1981 » Lance Cade, American wrestler († 2010)

• 1962 » Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician and academic (b. 1866)
• 1967 » José Martínez Ruiz, Spanish author and critic (b. 1873)
• 1972 » Léo-Ernest Ouimet, Canadian director and producer (b. 1877)
• 1979 » Christy Ring, Irish hurler (b. 1920)
• 1982 » Philip K. Dick, American philosopher and author (b. 1928)
• 1987 » Lolo Soetoro, Indonesian geographer and academic (b. 1935)
• 1987 » Randolph Scott, American actor and director (b. 1898)
• 1991 » Serge Gainsbourg, French singer-songwriter, actor, and director (b. 1928)
• 1992 » Sandy Dennis, American actress (b. 1937)
• 1994 » Anita Morris, American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1943)

• 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.
• March 14 » LOT Flight 7 crashes during final approach near Warsaw, Poland, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
• May 14 » Salvadoran Civil War: the Sumpul River massacre occurs in Chalatenango, El Salvador.
• June 3 » An explosive device is detonated at the Statue of Liberty. The FBI suspects Croatian nationalists.
• June 10 » The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
• July 7 » Institution of sharia law in Iran.
• October 9 » Pope John Paul II greets the Dalai Lama during a private audience in Vatican City.

The temperature on March 2, 1980 was between -0.6 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.