About the day » Sunday March 9, 1980Calender converter

• Chantal Bos, Deventer († 1980)

• Antonie van Noorel (71), Heerde
• Antonius Walterus KLAVER (79), Haarlem,North Holland,Netherlands
• Adriana Koolmees (59), Capelle aan den IJssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland NED
• Abraham Gerrit Vroegop (90)
• Adriana Hendrika van Manen (93), Hilversum
• Bertha van Schooten (72), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Alma Jane Leslie (78), Sarasota, Sarasota, Florida, Verenigde Staten
• Antje van der Ende (71), 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Berend Wobbema (72), Sioux City, Sioux County, Iowa
• Antonie van Van Noorel (71), Heerde

• 1977 » Radek Dvořák, Czech ice hockey player
• 1979 » Oscar Isaac, Guatemalan-American actor
• 1981 » Antonio Bryant, American football player
• 1981 » Clay Rapada, American baseball player
• 1982 » Matt Bowen, Australian rugby league player
• 1982 » Mirjana Lučić-Baroni, Croatian tennis player
• 1982 » Ryan Bayley, Australian cyclist
• 1983 » Clint Dempsey, American international soccer player, forward
• 1983 » Wayne Simien, American basketball player
• 1984 » Abdoulay Konko, French footballer

• 1969 » Abdul Munim Riad, Egyptian general (b. 1919)
• 1971 » Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria (b. 1902)
• 1974 » Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr., American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
• 1974 » Harry Womack, American singer (b. 1945)
• 1983 » Faye Emerson, American actress (b. 1917)
• 1983 » Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1988 » Kurt Georg Kiesinger, German lawyer, politician and Chancellor of Germany (b. 1904)
• 1989 » Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (b. 1946)
• 1991 » Jim Hardin, American baseball player (b. 1943)
• 1992 » Menachem Begin, Belarusian-Israeli soldier, politician and Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)

• 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.
• February 22 » Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4–3.
• April 9 » The Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein kills philosopher Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and his sister Bint al-Huda after three days of torture.
• June 10 » The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
• October 10 » The 7.1 M_w  El Asnam earthquake shakes northern Algeria, killing 2,633 and injuring 8,369.
• November 28 » Iran–Iraq War: Operation Morvarid: The bulk of the Iraqi Navy is destroyed by the Iranian Navy in the Persian Gulf. (Commemorated in Iran as Navy Day.)
• December 11 » The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (Superfund) is enacted by the U.S. Congress.

The temperature on March 9, 1980 was between -1.2 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 3.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.