About the day » Wednesday April 16, 1980Calender converter

• Kim Michelle Blokhuis, Hengelo, Overijssel, Nederland († 1982)
• Laurent le POLAIN de WAROUX, Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, 21018, Région Bruxelles-Capitale, Belgique († 2012)

• Dieuwke de ROO (82), Zwolle, Overijssel, Nederland
• Cornelis Spies (71), Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Adolf Hendricus Snel (69)
• Catharina Cornelia Peeters (69), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Berendina van Valkenburgh (90), Utrecht,1013,Utrecht,Nederland
• Aaltje Waarlo (65), Vorden, Gelderland, Nederland
• Albertus van de Kleut (73)
• Bernard Elias Brandt **** (76), Jefferson City, Cole, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Wijte (45)
• Carolina Augusta Loyola de Andrade (90), São João da Boa Vista, São Paulo, Brasil

• 1977 » Freddie Ljungberg, Swedish footballer
• 1979 » Christijan Albers, Dutch racing driver
• 1979 » Daniel Browne, New Zealand rugby player
• 1979 » Lars Börgeling, German pole vaulter
• 1981 » Anestis Agritis, Greek footballer
• 1981 » Matthieu Proulx, Canadian football player
• 1981 » Maya Dunietz, Israeli singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1982 » Boris Diaw, French basketball player
• 1982 » Gina Carano, American mixed martial artist and actress
• 1982 » Jonathan Vilma, American football player

• 1972 » Frank O'Connor, Australian public servant (b. 1894)
• 1972 » Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1973 » István Kertész, Hungarian conductor and educator (b. 1929)
• 1978 » Lucius D. Clay, American officer and military governor in occupied Germany (b. 1898)
• 1980 » Morris Stoloff, American composer (b. 1898)
• 1985 » Scott Brady, American actor (b. 1924)
• 1988 » Khalil al-Wazir, Palestinian commander, founded Fatah (b. 1935)
• 1988 » Youri Egorov, Russian pianist (b. 1954)
• 1989 » Jocko Conlan, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1899)
• 1989 » Kaoru Ishikawa Japanese author and educator (b. 1915)

• 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 25 » Mother Teresa is honored with India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna.
• January 26 » Egypt–Israel relations are formally established.
• March 23 » Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador gives his famous speech appealing to men of the El Salvadoran armed forces to stop killing the Salvadorans.
• May 9 » In Florida, Liberian freighter MVSummit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. Thirty-five people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150ft. into the water and die.
• May 17 » On the eve of presidential elections, Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path attacks a polling location in Chuschi (a town in Ayacucho), starting the Internal conflict in Peru.
• July 30 » Vanuatu gains independence.

The temperature on April 16, 1980 was between 5.4 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 12.4 hours of sunshine (89%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.