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• Marijtje Marretje de Vries († 2019)
• janneke verber, maasbree
• Marijn Tax († 1982)
• Paul Josephus Maria van Loon († 2010)
• Franciscus Henricus Hessels, 's-Hertogenbosch
• Ruben Gregor Hess († 2012)
• Johanna Clazina Maria Overbeek, Hoorn, Nederland
• Marieke de Vries († 2019)

• Albert Hendrik Schotborgh (90), Beneden Leeuwen, Nederland
• Gerrit Berg (67)
• Anna van Dalen (89), Tilburg
• Everdina Margaretha van Lookeren Campagne (80), Wageningen
• Gijsbert Antonius van Arnhem (63)
• Ethel Agnes Irby (84), Hillsboro, Montgomery, Illinois, United States
• Franciscus Burghout (75), Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Catharina Johanna van Wendel de Joode (86), Ede, Gelderland, Nederland
• Antonius Kuit (71), Amsterdam
• Elisabeth Gego (72)

• 1976 » Steven Bell, Australian rugby league player
• 1977 » Elisabeth Hasselbeck, American talk show host and author
• 1978 » Jake Johnson, American actor
• 1979 » Abdulaziz al-Omari, Saudi Arabian terrorist, hijacker of American Airlines Flight 11 († 2001)
• 1979 » Ronald Curry, American football player and coach
• 1980 » Lucy Shuker, English tennis player
• 1980 » Miguel Pérez, Spanish footballer
• 1981 » Adam Green, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1981 » Daniel Cabrera, Dominican-American baseball player
• 1981 » Eric Ghiaciuc, American football player

• 1972 » Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)
• 1975 » Ezzard Charles, American boxer (b. 1921)
• 1976 » Zainul Abedin, Bangladeshi painter and sculptor (b. 1914)
• 1980 » Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician and academic (b. 1895)
• 1981 » Mary Lou Williams, American pianist and composer (b. 1910)
• 1981 » Stefan Wyszyński, Polish cardinal (b. 1901)
• 1982 » H. Jones, English colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1940)
• 1983 » Erastus Corning 2nd, American soldier and politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany (b. 1909)
• 1984 » Eric Morecambe, English actor and comedian (b. 1926)
• 1986 » Edip Cansever, Turkish poet and author (b. 1928)

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. Erik
14. Paul
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. Petra

• 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.
• February 13 » An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a ​⁄₂-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
• March 17 » The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.
• July 12 » The island nation of Kiribati becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• July 19 » The Sandinista rebels overthrow the government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.
• July 19 » The oil tanker SS Atlantic Empress collides with another oil tanker, causing the largest ever ship-borne oil spill.
• November 19 » Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.

The temperature on May 28, 1979 was between 7.5 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 10.6 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.