About the day » Thursday August 7, 1980Calender converter

• Alicea (Alicca Allcea) Ann Wempen, Kossuth Co. Hosp., Algona, Kossuth Co., IA († 1980)
• Lucas Henrik KRUISSELBRINK, Nijmegen († 1980)
• Sannie De Wit

• Catharina, Louisa van Hassel (81), Zundert(NL.)
• Hendrik Willen (Henk) Bouhuisen (59), Naaldwijk
• Alphonsus Kelber (78), Hoevenen
• Cornelia Reus (76)
• Cornelia Reus (75), Lutjebroek, Nederland
• Geertruida Ter Brake (86), Enter
• Arie Slierendrecht (78), Maastricht
• Arnoldus Cornelius Josephus van Loon (75), Valkenswaard, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aloyisius KEMFERS (58), Zwolle
• anna maria RIJSDIJK (75)

• 1978 » Alexandre Aja, French director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1979 » Birgit Zotz, Austrian anthropologist and author
• 1979 » Eric Johnson, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1979 » Miguel Llera, Spanish footballer
• 1980 » Aurélie Claudel, French model and actress
• 1980 » Carsten Busch, German footballer
• 1980 » Seiichiro Maki, Japanese footballer
• 1980 » Tácio Caetano Cruz Queiroz, Brazilian footballer
• 1981 » David Testo, American soccer player
• 1981 » Randy Wayne, American actor and producer

• 1970 » Harold Haley, American lawyer and judge (b. 1904)
• 1972 » Joi Lansing, American model, actress, and singer (b. 1929)
• 1973 » Jack Gregory, Australian cricketer (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet and author (b. 1925)
• 1974 » Sylvio Mantha, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1902)
• 1978 » Eddie Calvert, English trumpeter (b. 1922)
• 1981 » Gunnar Uusi, Estonian chess player (b. 1931)
• 1985 » Grayson Hall, American actress (b. 1922)
• 1987 » Camille Chamoun, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 7th President of Lebanon (b. 1900)
• 1989 » Mickey Leland, American lawyer and politician (b. 1944)

• 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 3 » The USSNautilus is decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register.
• March 14 » LOT Flight 7 crashes during final approach near Warsaw, Poland, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
• March 24 » El Salvadorian Archbishop Óscar Romero is assassinated while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.
• May 13 » An F3 tornado hits Kalamazoo County, Michigan. President Jimmy Carter declares it a federal disaster area.
• September 12 » Military coup in Turkey.
• November 21 » A deadly fire breaks out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Paradise, Nevada (now Bally's Las Vegas). Eighty-seven people are killed and more than 650 are injured in the worst disaster in Nevada history.

The temperature on August 7, 1980 was between 15.1 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 18.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.