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• Ronald Winter († 1993)
• Daniël Langemeijer, Amsterdam, NH, Nederland († 1978)

• Auguste Alexandre ALVAREZ (88), Nice, 06088, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
• Cornelis Johannes Coster (83), Amsterdam
• Cressy Alice Sterling (65), Alameda County, California
• Cornelis Wilhelmus Adrianus Priems (55), Fuengirola (E)
• Afina Wilhelmina Hofkamp (75), Eelde, Drenthe, Nederland
• Annechien Oostland (84)
• Bernardina Johanna Homeijer (68), Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Bernardus van Hunnik (82), Rijssen, Nederland
• Anna Maria Bernardina Drahmann (83), Amstelveen
• Arie NAAKTGEBOREN (90)

• 1974 » Kelly Jones, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1975 » Jose Molina, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
• 1976 » Jamie McMurray, American race car driver
• 1976 » Nikos Chatzis, Greek basketball player
• 1977 » Cris, Brazilian footballer
• 1978 » Lyfe Jennings, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1979 » Christian Malcolm, Welsh sprinter
• 1979 » Luis Fernando López, Colombian race walker
• 1980 » Amauri, Brazilian-Italian footballer
• 1981 » Sosene Anesi, New Zealand rugby player

• 1969 » George Edwin Cooke, American soccer player (b. 1883)
• 1970 » Hjalmar Schacht, Danish-German economist, banker, and politician (b. 1877)
• 1971 » Heinz Hopf, German-Swiss mathematician and academic (b. 1894)
• 1973 » Jean Batmale, French footballer and manager (b. 1895)
• 1975 » Eisaku Satō, Japanese lawyer and politician, 39th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1901)
• 1975 » Ozzie Nelson, American actor and bandleader (b. 1906)
• 1977 » Archibald Hill, English physiologist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
• 1977 » Roberto Rossellini, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• 1981 » Carleton S. Coon, American anthropologist and academic (b. 1904)
• 1986 » Anna Neagle, English actress and singer (b. 1904)

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. Jennifer
9. Jessica
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 24 » The Yuba County Five disappear in California. Four of their bodies are found four months later.
• April 17 » Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking a communist coup d'état in Afghanistan.
• June 1 » The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
• June 21 » The original production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Evita, based on the life of Eva Perón, opens at the Prince Edward Theatre, London.
• July 7 » The Solomon Islands becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• November 23 » Cyclone kills about 1000 people in eastern Sri Lanka.

The temperature on June 3, 1978 was between 12.0 °C and 26.9 °C and averaged 20.5 °C. There was 11.8 hours of sunshine (72%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.