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• Sjoerd Wilmans

• Adriaan Hendrik van Nieuwpoort (43), Den Haag
• Catharina Johanna Koppen (85), Schagen
• Anni Alwine Wahlen (83), Tostedt, Rotenburg/Wümme
• Anna, Maria MELIS (99), Voortkapel
• Anne (Snipe) Snippe (96), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Catharina Reinderdina HOLTHAUS (81), Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland
• Carolus Martinus Willekens (75), Antwerpen
• Arie Gijsbertus Hulsman (75), Amsterdam
• ADRIAAN VOS (54), 'S-GRAVENHAGE
• Albertje Huisman (83), Haskerland

• 1977 » Bram Schmitz, Dutch cyclist
• 1977 » David Kidwell, New Zealand rugby league player and coach
• 1977 » John Cena, American professional wrestler and actor
• 1977 » John Oliver, English comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1977 » Kal Penn, Indian-American actor
• 1977 » Lee Young-pyo, South Korean international footballer
• 1977 » Willie Mitchell, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1978 » Gezahegne Abera, Ethiopian runner
• 1979 » Barry Hawkins, English snooker player
• 1979 » Jaime King, American actress and model

• 1966 » George Ohsawa, Japanese founder of the Macrobiotic diet (b. 1893)
• 1981 » Josep Pla, Catalan journalist and author (b. 1897)
• 1983 » Buster Crabbe, American swimmer and actor (b. 1908)
• 1984 » Red Garland, American pianist (b. 1923)
• 1985 » Frank Farrell, Australian rugby league player and policeman (b. 1916)
• 1985 » Sam Ervin, American lawyer and politician (b. 1896)
• 1986 » Harold Arlen, American composer (b. 1905)
• 1986 » Jim Laker, English cricketer and sportscaster (b. 1922)
• 1986 » Otto Preminger, Ukrainian-American actor, director, and producer (b. 1906)
• 1990 » Paulette Goddard, American actress (b. 1910)

1. Jan
2. Martijn
3. Jeroen
4. Mark
5. David
6. Dennis
7. Johannes
8. Peter
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. Esther
11. Wendy
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.
• January 1 » Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747, crashes into the Arabian Sea, due to instrument failure, spatial disorientation, and pilot error, off the coast of Bombay, India, killing all 213 people on board.
• January 18 » The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom's government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
• 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 15 » Somalia and Ethiopia signed a truce to end the Ethio-Somali War.
• March 16 » Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the largest oil spill in history at that time.
• April 14 » Tbilisi Demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.

The temperature on April 23, 1978 was between 3.8 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (68%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.