About the day » Tuesday August 19, 1980Calender converter

• Alwin, Willem Masselink, Schagen
• Albert Jan van Dijken, Wageningen († 1980)
• Arie Johannes Koster, 's Gravenhage, Z-H († 1996)
• Erik Besseling († 2012)

• Anneke Hassing (92), Delfzijl (gem. Eemsdelta)
• Albert Daling (89), Bovensmilde
• Antonius Maria Kleine Schaars (89)
• (14k.3)Cornelis Petrus van Bezouw (86), Breda
• Algemiro Antunes Lima (63), Lages, Santa Catarina, Brasil
• Anthonia Cornelia Suijk (84)
• Alda Knoops (45), Heerlen, Netherlands
• Catherine Hughes (81), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Charlotte Groenendijk (77), Los Angeles County, California
• Antonetta Vermeulen (81), Dongen

• 1978 » Chris Capuano, American baseball player
• 1978 » Qais Al Khonji, Omani entrepreneur
• 1979 » Dave Douglas, American singer-songwriter and drummer
• 1979 » Oumar Kondé, Swiss footballer
• 1980 » Darius Campbell, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1980 » Jun Jin, South Korean singer
• 1980 » Michael Todd, American bass player
• 1980 » Paul Parry, Welsh footballer
• 1981 » Nick Kennedy, English rugby player
• 1981 » Percy Watson, American football player and wrestler

• 1970 » Paweł Jasienica, Polish soldier and historian (b. 1909)
• 1975 » Mark Donohue, American race car driver and engineer (b. 1937)
• 1976 » Alastair Sim, Scottish-English actor (b. 1900)
• 1976 » Ken Wadsworth, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1946)
• 1977 » Aleksander Kreek, Estonian shot putter and discus thrower (b. 1914)
• 1977 » Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1890)
• 1980 » Otto Frank, German-Swiss businessman, father of Anne Frank (b. 1889)
• 1981 » Jessie Matthews, English actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1907)
• 1982 » August Neo, Estonian wrestler (b. 1908)
• 1986 » Hermione Baddeley, English actress (b. 1906)

1. Jan
2. Jeroen
3. Peter
4. Johannes
5. Mark
6. Michael
7. Martijn
8. David
9. Bart
10. Dennis
11. Paul
12. Richard
13. Robert
14. Pieter
15. Patrick
16. Wouter

1. Maria
2. Sandra
3. Marieke
4. Linda
5. Kim
6. Jennifer
7. Esther
8. Wendy
9. Patricia
10. Jessica
11. Karin
12. Petra
13. Anna
14. Sarah
15. Monique
16. Johanna

• 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 4 » Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• August 14 » Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
• October 2 » Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War.

The temperature on August 19, 1980 was between 11.2 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.