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• Cornelis Boers (72), 's-Gravenzande, Nederland
• Catharina Meester (85), Grootebroek
• Anna Catharina van Marwijk (80), Gennep, Limburg, Nederland, Limburg, Nederland
• Aart van de Bunte (77), harderwijk
• ALEXANDER SCHELLEVIS (72), APELDOORN
• Birger Kristiansen Skavhaug (72)
• Arnoldus Hermannus Hartgerink (78), Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Classina Jopina Fourina Engelbrecht (61), Benoni
• Agenor de Figueiredo (69), Araras, São Paulo, Brasil
• Albert Jan Scholten (92), Steenderen

• 1977 » Attila Zsivoczky, Hungarian decathlete and high jumper
• 1977 » Claus Jensen, Danish international footballer and manager
• 1977 » Titus O'Neil, American football player and wrestler
• 1977 » Zuzana Hejdová, Czech tennis player
• 1978 » Bob Bryan, American tennis player
• 1978 » Craig Gower, Australian rugby player
• 1978 » Javier Colon, American singer-songwriter and musician
• 1978 » Mike Bryan, American tennis player
• 1978 » Tony Armas, Jr., Venezuelan baseball player
• 1978 » Tyler Labine, Canadian actor and comedian

• 1966 » Paula Strasberg, American actress, acting coach, and member of the Communist Party (b. 1909)
• 1966 » William Eccles, English physicist and engineer (b. 1875)
• 1967 » J. B. Lenoir, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1929)
• 1968 » Lin Zhao, Chinese dissident and Christian executed during the Cultural Revolution (b. 1932)
• 1976 » Edvard Drabløs, Norwegian actor and director (b. 1883)
• 1978 » Theo Helfrich, German race car driver (b. 1913)
• 1979 » Hardie Gramatky, American author and illustrator (b. 1907)
• 1979 » Muhsin Ertuğrul, Turkish actor and director (b. 1892)
• 1980 » Alfred Hitchcock, English-American director and producer (b. 1899)
• 1982 » Raymond Bussières, French actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1907)

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.
• February 13 » Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.
• March 23 » The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.
• September 19 » The Solomon Islands join the United Nations.
• October 8 » Australia's Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317.60mph at Blowering Dam, Australia.
• October 16 » Pope John Paul II becomes the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.
• November 15 » A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.

The temperature on April 29, 1978 was between 4.2 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.6 hours of sunshine (72%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.