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• Lubbertus van den Pol, Putten († 2011)
• Stephanie VET
• Marcus Johannes Petrus Ammerlaan, Sint Willebrord, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1980)
• Lubbertus van de Pol, Putten, Gelderland, Nederland († 2011)

• Achiel Cyriel VANCAILLIE (67), Veldegem
• Hartog (69), Westerhaar
• Cornelis Wilhelmus van den Ende (87), Schipluiden, Nederland
• Cornelis van Andel (90)
• Anne Ferelith Fenella BOWES-LYON (62), London, Middlesex
• Claire Marie Josephine Victorine Ghislaine Emma de La Court (91), ‘s-Gravenhage,Gemeente ’s-Gravenhage,South Holland,Netherlands
• Charles R. Marshall (81), Sharon, Connecticut
• Antje Petter (82), Kearney Township
• Cornelis Cornelsz Barnhoorn (71), Katwijk
• Antonius VERSANTVOORT (88)

• 1979 » Cameron Mooney, Australian footballer
• 1979 » Fuifui Moimoi, Tongan-New Zealand rugby league player
• 1979 » Jaycie Phelps, American gymnast
• 1979 » Jon Harley, English footballer
• 1979 » Naomichi Marufuji, Japanese wrestler
• 1979 » Simon Kirch, German sprinter
• 1980 » Brooks Orpik, American ice hockey player
• 1980 » Daniel Sedin, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1980 » Henrik Sedin, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1980 » Patrick Friesacher, Austrian race car driver

• 1973 » Anna Magnani, Italian actress and singer (b. 1908)
• 1973 » Ralph Earnhardt, American race car driver (b. 1923)
• 1973 » Samuel Flagg Bemis, American historian and author (b. 1891)
• 1976 » Leopold Ružička, Croatian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• 1977 » Uday Shankar, Indian dancer and choreographer (b. 1900)
• 1978 » Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
• 1979 » Arthur Hunnicutt, American actor (b. 1910)
• 1982 » Alec Hurwood, Australian cricketer (b. 1902)
• 1984 » John Facenda, American sportscaster (b. 1913)
• 1984 » Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1948)

• 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 7 » U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
• 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 5 » Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege.
• 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 14 » Salvadoran Civil War: the Sumpul River massacre occurs in Chalatenango, El Salvador.
• September 23 » Bob Marley plays what would be the last concert of his life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The temperature on September 26, 1980 was between 5.5 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (73%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.