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• Gijs van Niftrik, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Emilka Rebis, Kozienice (POL)
• Caroline Steinbach, Etterbeek,Bruxelles-Capitale,Belgique († 1979)
• Marga Jantina Groeneweg, Emmen

• Arie WARNAAR (51), Vlaardingen
• Albertus Johannes Fredericus Nienhuis (50)
• Andries Boer, den (81), Haamstede
• Adriana Bomgaars (76)
• Andries den Boer (81), Haamstede, Zeeland, Nederland
• Adrianus Petrus Cornelis Maria Adriaanse (49)
• Adriana Vermeulen (42), Harderwijk
• Anje Bolt (82), Delfzijl
• Arnoud Robert Alexander Quarles van Ufford (58), San Pedro de Alcántara,Provincia de Málaga,Andalusia,Spain
• Arnold Robert Alexander Jonkheer Quarles van Ufford (58), San Pedro-Alcantara, Andalousië

• 1978 » Wang Liqin, Chinese table tennis player
• 1979 » Ivana Wong, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actress
• 1979 » Yumiko Kobayashi, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1980 » Antero Niittymäki, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1980 » Antonio Gates, American football player
• 1980 » Craig Mottram, Australian runner
• 1980 » Sergey Kirdyapkin, Russian race walker
• 1980 » Tara Platt, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1981 » Clint Newton, American-Australian rugby league player
• 1981 » Marco Streller, Swiss footballer

• 1974 » Georgy Zhukov, Russian marshal and politician, Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union (b. 1896)
• 1974 » Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian mathematician and academic (b. 1896)
• 1975 » Hugo Bergmann, German-Israeli philosopher and author (b. 1883)
• 1978 » Walter C. Alvarez, American physician and author (b. 1884)
• 1980 » André Leducq, French cyclist (b. 1904)
• 1980 » Terence Fisher, English director and screenwriter (b. 1904)
• 1982 » Curd Jürgens, German-Austrian actor and director (b. 1915)
• 1982 » Djuna Barnes, American novelist, journalist, and playwright (b. 1892)
• 1982 » John Cheever, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1912)
• 1984 » Alan Berg, American lawyer and radio host (b. 1934)

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

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. Jennifer
15. Patricia
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.
• March 19 » The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.
• May 21 » White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.
• July 9 » A car bomb destroys a Renault motor car owned by "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld outside their home in France in an unsuccessful assassination attempt.
• October 31 » Western Airlines Flight 2605 crashes on landing in Mexico City, killing 73 people.
• November 1 » Griselda Álvarez becomes the first female governor of a state of Mexico.
• November 9 » Cold War: Nuclear false alarm: The NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert is cancelled.

The temperature on June 18, 1979 was between 8.4 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 10.3 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest.