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• Jos Beumer
• Debora Kok, Amsterdam († 1999)

• Banna Alma Neighbors\Nabors (81), Clinton, Laurens County, South Carolina, Verenigde Staten
• Bartha Slotboom (85), Baarn, Utrecht, Nederland
• Cornelia de Raad (84), Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Celine Charlotte LEFEBVRE (80), Lille,59000,Nord,Nord-Pas-de-Calais,FRANCE
• Bert Hubert (72), Zwolle
• Alfred Georges FOURCHE (89), Angers, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France
• Cornelis Constantin Eug√®ne JANSE KOK (88), Amsterdam (Noord-Holland, Nederland)
• Antonie Bosch (84), Ermelo
• Antonie Bosch (84), Ermelo
• Cornelia Nellie MARKUS (90), Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska, United States

• 1978 » Anamaria Marinca, Romanian-English actress
• 1978 » Antonio de Nigris, Mexican footballer († 2009)
• 1978 » Etan Thomas, American basketball player
• 1978 » Mirka Federer, Slovak-Swiss tennis player
• 1979 » Ruth Beitia, Spanish high jumper
• 1980 » Bijou Phillips, American actress and model
• 1980 » Dennis Kruppke, German footballer
• 1980 » Randy Orton, American wrestler
• 1981 » Antonis Fotsis, Greek basketball player
• 1981 » Bjørn Einar Romøren, Norwegian ski jumper

• 1968 » Lev Landau, Azerbaijani-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
• 1976 » Max Ernst, German painter and sculptor (b. 1891)
• 1981 » Eua Sunthornsanan, Thai singer-songwriter and bandleader (b. 1910)
• 1984 » Elizabeth Goudge, English author (b. 1900)
• 1984 » Marvin Gaye, American singer-songwriter (b. 1939)
• 1986 » Erik Bruhn, Danish actor, director, and choreographer (b. 1928)
• 1987 » Henri Cochet, French tennis player (b. 1901)
• 1991 » Jaime Guzmán, Chilean lawyer and politician (b. 1946)
• 1991 » Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1894)
• 1992 » Michael Havers, Baron Havers, English lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1923)

• 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 18 » A Vostok-2M rocket at Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 43 explodes during a fueling operation, killing 48 people.
• March 21 » U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet–Afghan War.
• April 18 » The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President. The Zimbabwean dollar replaces the Rhodesian dollar as the official currency.
• July 5 » Swedish tennis player Björn Borg wins his fifth Wimbledon final and becomes the first male tennis player to win the championships five times in a row (1976–1980).
• October 17 » As part of the Holy See–United Kingdom relations a British monarch makes the first state visit to the Vatican.
• December 24 » Witnesses report the first of several sightings of unexplained lights near RAF Woodbridge, in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, an incident called "Britain's Roswell".

The temperature on April 1, 1980 was between 6.1 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 26.3 mm of rain during 11.4 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.