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• Olaf Pieterse, Breda († 2013)
• nanette van der ven, 's hertogenbosch

• David Klaasz Smit (71), Terschelling-West
• Catharina Andriesina de Roode (59), -
• Aldegonda Hubertina Linssen (86), St. Odiliënberg
• Baukje van der Veen (80), USA
• Augustinus Depauw (73), Elewijt
• Cornelis de Regt (75), Rheden, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus Antonius Johannes de Laat (75), Gorinchem
• Dirk Paul Roelof Keizer (79), Laren
• Bertha (Dieriken) Diricken (82), Romershoven
• Cyrille Franciscus Verlooy (44), Ziekenhuis, Bonheiden

• 1979 » Clay Hensley, American baseball player
• 1979 » Mark Johnston, Canadian swimmer
• 1979 » Mickie James, American wrestler
• 1979 » Ramón Santiago, Dominican baseball player
• 1979 » Simon Neil, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1979 » Yuvan Shankar Raja, Indian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1980 » Joe Budden, American rapper
• 1981 » Ahmad Al Harthy, Omani race car driver
• 1981 » Dwayne Peel, Welsh rugby player
• 1981 » Steve Saviano, American ice hockey player

• 1974 » Norman Kirk, New Zealand engineer and politician, 29th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1923)
• 1974 » William Pershing Benedict, American soldier and pilot (b. 1918)
• 1978 » John Wrathall, Rhodesian accountant and politician, 2nd President of Rhodesia (b. 1913)
• 1979 » Sally Rand, American actress and dancer (b. 1904)
• 1979 » Tiger Smith, English cricketer and coach (b. 1886)
• 1984 » Audrey Wagner, American baseball player, obstetrician, and gynecologist (b. 1927)
• 1985 » Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1986 » Elizabeth Coatsworth, American author and poet (b. 1893)
• 1986 » Henry Moore, English sculptor and illustrator (b. 1898)
• 1986 » Urho Kekkonen, Finnish journalist, lawyer, and politician, 8th President of Finland (b. 1900)

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. Wendy
8. Esther
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.
• January 28 » USCGCBlackthorn collides with the tanker Capricorn while leaving Tampa, Florida and capsizes, killing 23 Coast Guard crewmembers.
• 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 14 » Salvadoran Civil War: the Sumpul River massacre occurs in Chalatenango, El Salvador.
• June 3 » The 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak hits Nebraska, causing five deaths and $300million (equivalent to $931million in 2019) worth of damage.
• October 29 » Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base's Duke Field, Florida leading to cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.
• December 2 » Salvadoran Civil War: Four American missionaries are raped and murdered by a death squad.

The temperature on August 31, 1980 was between 10.7 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 7.1 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.