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• Hans SPINCEMAILLE, Heverlee, 24040, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgique

• Antje Huisveld (72), Groningen, Groningen, Nederland
• Anna Adriana Maatjens (78), Oud Gastel
• Anna Landmeter (70), Drachten, Friesland, Nederland
• Boele Sijbes Haarsma (81)
• Clarisse De Saedeleer (88), Aalst
• Catharinus van Asselt (69)
• Christina van GAAL (89), Sittard, Limburg, Nederland
• Cornelia Carolina Vreugdenburg (86), Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland
• Antje Huivelt (72), Groningen
• Arie Rosmolen (61), Sommelsdijk

• 1975 » Shoaib Akhtar, Pakistani cricketer
• 1976 » Geno Carlisle, American basketball player
• 1976 » Nicolás Lapentti, Ecuadorian tennis player
• 1977 » Kenyan Weaks, American basketball player and coach
• 1977 » Michael Klim, Polish-Australian swimmer
• 1978 » Dwight Smith, American football player
• 1979 » Corey Patterson, American baseball player
• 1979 » Román Colón, Dominican baseball player
• 1979 » Taizō Sugimura, Japanese politician
• 1980 » Murtz Jaffer, Canadian journalist

• 1965 » Hayato Ikeda, Japanese lawyer and politician, 58th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1899)
• 1971 » W. O. Bentley, English race car driver and engineer, founded Bentley Motors Limited (b. 1888)
• 1973 » Willy Rey, Dutch-Canadian model (b. 1949)
• 1975 » Murilo Mendes, Brazilian poet and telegrapher (b. 1901)
• 1978 » Lonnie Mayne, American wrestler (b. 1944)
• 1979 » Andrew Dasburg, American painter and sculptor (b. 1887)
• 1984 » Tigran Petrosian, Georgian-Armenian chess player (b. 1929)
• 1986 » Helen Mack, American actress (b. 1913)
• 1989 » Larkin I. Smith, American police officer and politician (b. 1944)
• 1989 » Tim Richmond, American race car driver (b. 1955)

1. Jan
2. Martijn
3. Jeroen
4. David
5. Mark
6. Dennis
7. Johannes
8. Peter
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. Jennifer
9. Jessica
10. Esther
11. Wendy
12. Kim
13. Bianca
14. Anna
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.
• 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 5 » The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
• March 28 » The US Supreme Court hands down 5–3 decision in Stump v. Sparkman, a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity.
• May 12 » In Zaire, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center of the province of Shaba (now known as Katanga); the local government asks the US, France and Belgium to restore order.
• July 30 » The 730: Okinawa Prefecture changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.
• December 11 » The Lufthansa heist is committed by a group led by Lucchese family associate Jimmy Burke. It was the largest cash robbery ever committed on American soil, at that time.

The temperature on August 13, 1978 was between 12.1 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.