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• Melissa Joy de Jong, Sioux Center-Iowa (USA) († 2006)
• Rebecca Mae Stob, Holland, MI
• Bas Deurloo, Strijen († 1978)
• Melissa Joy de Jong, Sioux Center, Sioux County, Iowa († 2006)
• Marco Pijlman, Vegelingsoord († 1998)

• Coba Jacobsma (84), Rock Valley, Sioux County, Iowa
• Anke Deuling (71), Ter Apel (Vlagtwedde)
• Anke DEULING (71), Vlagtwedde
• Cornelia Brussee (87), Rijnsburg
• Carolina EILERTS DE HAAN (77), Hilversum Noord-Holland Netherlands
• Agatha Johanna Henrietta Maria Muijselaar (76), 's Gravenhage
• Antonius Vierhout (82), Spanbeek, Limburg, Nederland
• Cornelia Carolina JANSEN (85)
• Antoinette Marie Bonte (73), Rieux (F)
• Cornelia Adriana Catharina Tettelaar (88), SCHIEDAM, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1977 » Graeme Dott, Scottish snooker player and coach
• 1977 » Maryam Mirzakhani, Iranian mathematician († 2017)
• 1977 » Onur Saylak, Turkish actor, filmmaker and director
• 1977 » Rachel Wilson, Canadian actress and voice actress
• 1978 » Aaron Abrams, Canadian actor
• 1978 » Aya Ishiguro, Japanese singer and fashion designer
• 1978 » Jason Biggs, American actor and comedian
• 1978 » Malin Åkerman, Swedish-Canadian model, actress, and singer
• 1979 » Aaron Yoo, American actor
• 1979 » Adrian Serioux,Canadian soccer player

• 1967 » John Masefield, English poet and author (b. 1878)
• 1970 » Nelly Sachs, German poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
• 1971 » Heinie Manush, American baseball player and coach (b. 1901)
• 1973 » Art Pollard, American race car driver (b. 1927)
• 1973 » Frances Marion, American screenwriter, novelist and journalist (b. 1888)
• 1974 » Wayne Maki, Canadian National Hockey League player (b. 1944)
• 1980 » Lillian Roth, American actress (b. 1910)
• 1981 » Benjamin Sheares, Singaporean professor and politician, 2nd President of Singapore (b. 1907)
• 1985 » Jean Dubuffet, French painter and sculptor (b. 1901)
• 1986 » Elisabeth Bergner, German actress (b. 1897)

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.
• January 24 » Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.
• February 8 » Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
• February 13 » Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.
• March 2 » Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.
• August 17 » Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey, France near Paris, 137 hours after leaving Presque Isle, Maine.
• December 6 » Spain ratifies the Spanish Constitution of 1978 in a referendum.

The temperature on May 12, 1978 was between 5.3 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 6.1 mm of rain during 3.6 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (9%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.