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• Catharina van Lienden, Johannesburg (Zuid-Afrika)
• Helen Anne (Infant) WADE, Canberra
• Jet Sepers, Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1980)
• Iris Anne Marieke de Vries, Gorredijk (F)

• Anton Theodoor von Huben (66), Waddinxveen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• "Henry" Antoine Timoléon Christophe de Bonneval (88), Paris
• Cora C. Ulseth (83), Crookston, Polk County, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus Johannes van Rijswijk (53), Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Charles Robert Spinks (57)
• Bessel Bos (86)
• Anna Marie Albertine Christensen (93), K²benhavn
• Andreas Hendrik Brandsma (73), Rosas, Spanje
• Apolonia Jobina Smits (62), Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Nederland
• Anna van Dorp (83), Heemstede,Heemstede,Noord-Holland,Nederland

• 1978 » Brent Sherwin, Australian rugby league player
• 1978 » Kevin Betsy, English born Seychelles international footballer, midfielder and manager
• 1979 » Freema Agyeman, English actress
• 1979 » Keven Mealamu, New Zealand rugby player
• 1979 » Shinnosuke Abe, Japanese baseball player
• 1980 » Jamal Crawford, American basketball player
• 1980 » Robertas Javtokas, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1981 » Carl Webb, Australian rugby league player
• 1981 » Ian Murray, Scottish footballer
• 1982 » Terrence Duffin, Zimbabwean cricketer

• 1971 » Falih Rıfkı Atay, Turkish journalist and politician (b. 1894)
• 1972 » Marilyn Maxwell, American actress (b. 1921)
• 1974 » Chet Huntley, American journalist (b. 1911)
• 1977 » Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, English politician, 9th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1909)
• 1977 » Terukuni Manzō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 38th Yokozuna (b. 1919)
• 1978 » Jacques Brugnon, French tennis player (b. 1895)
• 1981 » Gerry Bertier, American football player (b. 1953)
• 1983 » Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1891)
• 1990 » Lev Yashin, Russian footballer (b. 1929)
• 1990 » Maurice Cloche, French director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1907)

• 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 28 » USCGCBlackthorn collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa, Florida and capsizes, killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.
• March 27 » Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, leads to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.
• May 5 » Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege.
• 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.
• June 27 » The 'Ustica massacre': Itavia Flight 870 crashes in the sea while en route from Bologna to Palermo, Italy, killing all 81 on board.
• July 30 » Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law.

The temperature on March 20, 1980 was between -4.0 °C and 3.7 °C and averaged -0.6 °C. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.