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• Jeroen Huiskamp, Leeuwarderdeel, Friesland, Nederland
• TATJANA MARJA WESTERNENG, PURMEREND († 2017)
• Roy van der Graaf, 's-Gravenhage
• Inge OTTENHOF, Roosendaal († 1979)

• Alphonsus Hubertus Crooijmans (74), Overloon, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Anna Maria Benschop (67)
• Bouke Popken (44), Poortugaal, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Agnes Wolters (62), Horn
• Barend Antonie Gerritsen (16), Velp
• Bernard Charles Kramer (80)
• "Gabriel" Peter Paul Pilars de Pilar (74), Bonn-Bad Godesberg, Allemagne
• Alphonsus Hubertus Crooijmans (74)
• Alice Edna Skinner (89), Klamath Falls, Klamath, Oregon, VS
• Cornelis Johannes Smeekens (66), Chaam

• 1976 » Brently Heilbron, American actor and musician
• 1976 » Evangelos Sklavos, Greek basketball player
• 1976 » Laura Ling, American journalist and author
• 1976 » Tomasz Adamek, Polish boxer
• 1977 » Brad Delson, American guitarist and producer
• 1977 » Lee McKenzie, Scottish journalist
• 1977 » Sophie Guillemin, French actress
• 1978 » Mat Kearney, American musician
• 1979 » Ryan Malone, American ice hockey player
• 1979 » Stephanie Brown Trafton, American discus thrower

• 1968 » Nicolae Bretan, Romanian opera singer, composer, and conductor (b. 1887)
• 1973 » David Ben-Gurion, Israeli politician, 1st Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1886)
• 1975 » Anna Roosevelt Halsted, American journalist (b. 1906)
• 1975 » Ernesto Maserati, Italian race car driver and engineer (b. 1898)
• 1975 » Nellie Fox, American baseball player and coach (b. 1927)
• 1981 » Russ Manning, American author and illustrator (b. 1929)
• 1984 » Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter and photographer (b. 1911)
• 1986 » Frank McCarthy, American general and film producer (b. 1912)
• 1987 » James Baldwin, American novelist, poet, and critic (b. 1924)
• 1987 » Punch Imlach, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (b. 1918)

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

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

• 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 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 13.9 million citizens.
• March 16 » Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped. (He is later murdered by his captors.)
• June 28 » The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
• September 17 » The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt.
• November 14 » France conducts the Aphrodite nuclear test as 25th in the group of 29, 1975–78 French nuclear tests.
• November 15 » A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.
• December 6 » Spain ratifies the Spanish Constitution of 1978 in a referendum.

The temperature on December 1, 1978 was between -3.4 °C and -0.1 °C and averaged -1.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast.