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• Carla Quicken, Helden († 1996)
• carla m.m. quicken, helden-dorp († 1996)
• Robert Wayne Tiemens Jr.
• Marie Louise Zuijderduijn, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2009)
• Levenloos van Wel, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland († 1976)

• Arthur Lenaers (70), Oostende
• * Lambertus (Bart) van Delft (94), Rosmalen
• Anna Louise Louw (81), Montfermeil
• Antje SCHOUTEN (75)
• Anna Hubertina Bisschops (68), Heerlen
• Antoinette Bartels (58), Maastricht
• Anna Apolonia Vreeken (70), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Agatha Hogeveen (92), Naaldwijk, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Albert Frank Heisserer (59), Scott County, Missouri, Verenigde Staten
• Antoon van den Oetelaar (53), Glen Robertson (Canada)

• 1974 » Nnedi Okorafor, Nigerian-American author and educator
• 1974 » Toutai Kefu, Tongan-Australian rugby player
• 1975 » Anouk, Dutch singer
• 1975 » Francesco Flachi, Italian footballer
• 1975 » Funda Arar, Turkish singer
• 1975 » Timo Pérez, Dominican-American baseball player
• 1977 » Ana de la Reguera, Mexican actress
• 1977 » Mark Spencer, American computer programmer and engineer
• 1977 » Mehran Ghassemi, Iranian journalist and author († 2008)
• 1978 » Daigo, Japanese singer-songwriter, actor, and voice actor

• 1962 » Juan Belmonte, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1892)
• 1965 » Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (b. 1886)
• 1969 » Zinaida Aksentyeva, Ukrainian astronomer (b. 1900)
• 1973 » Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1881)
• 1974 » James Charles McGuigan, Canadian cardinal (b. 1894)
• 1979 » Breece D'J Pancake, American short story writer (b. 1952)
• 1981 » Omar Bradley, American general (b. 1893)
• 1983 » Isamu Kosugi, Japanese actor and director (b. 1904)
• 1984 » Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1894)
• 1985 » John Frederick Coots, American pianist and composer (b. 1897)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Sandra
4. Wendy
5. Esther
6. Monique
7. Elisabeth
8. Miranda
9. Linda
10. Jennifer
11. Saskia
12. Bianca
13. Cindy
14. Judith
15. Tamara
16. Patricia

• 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)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 13.7 million citizens.
• January 4 » The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force shoots dead six Irish Catholic civilians in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The next day, gunmen would shoot dead ten Protestant civilians nearby in retaliation.
• February 4 » In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
• February 19 » Executive Order 9066, which led to the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps, is rescinded by President Gerald Ford's Proclamation 4417.
• May 7 » The Honda Accord is officially launched.
• June 29 » The Conference of Communist and Workers Parties of Europe convenes in East Berlin.
• September 10 » A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.

The temperature on April 8, 1976 was between 0.2 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (57%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.