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• Thomas Douglas Arline <KK BdSSDIOb>1, Denver, Adams County, Colorado († 2010)
• Annette Margo Schouten († 2009)
• Michael Brian Warrell, Florida, Verenigde Staten († 2009)
• Janneke Bakker († 1994)

• Cornelia Admiraal (69), Heiloo, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Agatha Johanna Verkleij (81)
• Arthur Bowman Lewis (94), Kansas, United States
• Adriana Jeanne Marie Visée (68), Zeist
• Antje Jans Bangma (91), Bolsward (FRL)
• Antonius Joannes Dionijsius Manni (72), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg
• Antonius Joannes Dionysius Manni (72), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antje Bangma (91)
• Anna Alberta Maria Zwanniken (90), Vinkenveen, Nederland
• Adrianus Hokke (91)

• 1976 » Alex Brooks, American ice hockey player and scout
• 1976 » Jeff Cunningham, Jamaican-American soccer player
• 1976 » Ramón Vázquez, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and coach
• 1976 » Robert Miles, Australian rugby league player
• 1978 » Alan Lee, Irish footballer and coach
• 1978 » Jason Marquis, American baseball player
• 1978 » Lee Gronkiewicz, American baseball player and coach
• 1978 » Peter Buxton, English rugby player and manager
• 1978 » Reuben Droughns, American football player and coach
• 1979 » Kelis, American singer-songwriter, producer, chef and author

• 1971 » George Jackson, American activist and author, co-founded the Black Guerrilla Family (b. 1941)
• 1974 » Buford Pusser, American police officer (b. 1937)
• 1974 » Kirpal Singh, Indian spiritual master (b. 1894)
• 1978 » Charles Eames, American architect, co-designed the Eames House (b. 1907)
• 1979 » Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1910)
• 1981 » Kaka Kalelkar, Indian Hindi Writer(B.1885)
• 1983 » Benigno Aquino, Jr., Filipino journalist and politician (b. 1932)
• 1988 » Ray Eames, American architect, co-designed the Eames House (b. 1912)
• 1988 » Teodoro de Villa Diaz, Filipino guitarist and songwriter (b. 1963)
• 1989 » Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1945)

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.
• February 17 » The Troubles: The Provisional IRA detonates an incendiary bomb at the La Mon restaurant, near Belfast, killing 12 and seriously injuring 30 others, all Protestants.
• March 11 » Coastal Road massacre: At least 37 are killed and more than 70 are wounded when Fatah hijack an Israeli bus, prompting Israel's Operation Litani.
• April 14 » Tbilisi Demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
• August 22 » The District of Columbia Voting Rights Amendment is passed by the U.S. Congress. The proposed amendment would have provided the District of Columbia with full voting representation in the Congress, the Electoral College, and regarding amending the U.S. Constitution. The proposed amendment failed to be ratified by enough states (ratified by 16, needed 38) and so did not become part of the Constitution.
• November 15 » A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.
• November 23 » Cyclone kills about 1000 people in eastern Sri Lanka.

The temperature on August 21, 1978 was between 11.1 °C and 22.3 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.