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• Justin Daniel Meyering, Forest City Comm. Hosp., Forest City, Hancock / Winnebago Co., IA († 2019)
• Michael Andrew Nickel, Portsmouth († 1993)
• Laurent MILLER, Bruxelles
• Samantha Dawn Malako, Lethbridge, Alberta, CA († 1979)

• Celia Kint (67)
• Amelia Jane Todd (94), Winston-Salem, Forsyth, NC
• Carolien Marie Charlotte Immink (67)
• Antoinette Minnie Te Grotenhuis (72)
• Annemarie Barbara Ilse Ursula Margarete Eleonore von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg (86), Hannover
• Alfons Vanbrabant (58), Heusden-Zolder, Limburg, België
• Annemarie von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg (86), Hannover, Allemagne
• Casparus Olaus Wildbret (65), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Celestina Margaretha Vellemans (54), Brussel
• Arie Post (55), Schiedam

• 1977 » Ana de la Reguera, Mexican actress
• 1977 » Mark Spencer, American computer programmer and engineer
• 1977 » Mehran Ghassemi, Iranian journalist and author († 2008)
• 1978 » Bernt Haas, Austrian-Swiss footballer
• 1978 » Daigo, Japanese singer-songwriter, actor, and voice actor
• 1978 » Evans Rutto, Kenyan runner
• 1978 » Jocelyn Robichaud, Canadian tennis player and coach
• 1978 » Rachel Roberts, Canadian model and actress
• 1979 » Alexi Laiho, Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1979 » Amit Trivedi, Indian singer-songwriter

• 1965 » Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (b. 1886)
• 1969 » Zinaida Aksentyeva, Ukrainian astronomer (b. 1900)
• 1973 » Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1881)
• 1974 » James Charles McGuigan, Canadian cardinal (b. 1894)
• 1979 » Breece D'J Pancake, American short story writer (b. 1952)
• 1981 » Omar Bradley, American general (b. 1893)
• 1983 » Isamu Kosugi, Japanese actor and director (b. 1904)
• 1984 » Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1894)
• 1985 » John Frederick Coots, American pianist and composer (b. 1897)
• 1990 » Ryan White, American activist, inspired the Ryan White Care Act (b. 1971)

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 9 » The Budd Company unveils its first SPV-2000 self-propelled railcar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• February 16 » The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago).
• September 17 » The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt.
• September 19 » The Solomon Islands join the United Nations.
• November 15 » A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.
• 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 April 8, 1978 was between 2.6 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.