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• Jan-Harm Gerrit Jan Wouter Bastiaan Hakkers († 1994)
• Cor Spanninga, Aduard († 2019)
• Raoul Michiel Kuijs, IJsselstein, Gelderland, Nederland († 2023)
• Sylvia Verhagen, Den Burg (Texel, NH) († 2013)

• Alberta Perik (65), Wierden
• Adrianus Henricus Josephus van de Poel (82), Tilburg
• Adrianus Johannes Overbeek (74), Utrecht
• Antonia Johanna Veltkamp (90)
• Antonie Simon Adriaan Blok (90), Grand Rapids, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Bettie A. Holt (81), Houston, Harris, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Antonia Maria Elisabeth Snels (66), Tilburg
• Clemens Timmer (64)
• Antonia Maria Elisabeth Snels (66), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands
• Anna Gorren (75), Maastricht,, Limburg, Nederland

• 1977 » Ivonne Teichmann, German runner
• 1978 » Josh Hancock, American baseball player († 2007)
• 1979 » Josh Server, American actor
• 1979 » Malcolm Christie, English footballer
• 1979 » Michel Riesen, Swiss ice hockey player
• 1979 » Sebastien Grainger, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1980 » Keiji Tamada, Japanese footballer
• 1980 » Mark Teixeira, American baseball player
• 1981 » Alessandra Ambrosio, Brazilian model
• 1981 » Alexandre Burrows, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1974 » Ernst Ziegler, German actor (b. 1894)
• 1977 » Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter (b. 1900)
• 1977 » Phanishwar Nath 'Renu', Indian author and activist (b. 1921)
• 1980 » Ümit Kaftancıoğlu, Turkish journalist and producer (b. 1935)
• 1981 » Caroline Gordon, American author and critic (b. 1895)
• 1983 » Dolores del Río, Mexican actress (b. 1904)
• 1984 » Edgar V. Saks, Estonian historian and politician, Estonian Minister of Education (b. 1910)
• 1985 » Bunny Ahearne, Irish-born English businessman (b. 1900)
• 1985 » Enver Hoxha, Albanian educator and politician, 21st Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1908)
• 1985 » John Gilroy, English artist and illustrator (b. 1898)

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

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

• 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 14.0 million citizens.
• January 30 » A Varig Boeing 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
• April 6 » Student protests break out in Nepal.
• June 1 » The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
• July 3 » U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
• July 19 » The Sandinista rebels overthrow the government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.
• September 14 » Afghan President Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new president.

The temperature on April 11, 1979 was between 9.8 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.