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• Robert Jefferson Lacy, Waco, Texas († 1978)
• Jonathon Michael McQUESTIN, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia († 1985)
• Thierry Brander, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 2018)
• Maarten Franciscus Petrus Fouchier, Gemeente Tilburg, Noord Brabant, Nederand († 1978)

• Edna Cooper (81), Paw Paw, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Elizabeth Fries (82), Utica, NY
• Andries van Zundert (51), Breda, Nederland
• Allegra Jane Wissink (67), Sheboygan, Wisconsin
• Albert Simon Kirstine (71)
• Edward Howey Brown (82), Beachwood, Cuyahoga, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Agatha Anna (1) van de Weijer (91), Hilversum
• Dirkje van der Kruijk (80), Leiden
• Arentje de Pijper (96), Rotterdam
• Edna May Burket (80), Bedford, Pennsylvania

• 1976 » Seth Wescott, American snowboarder
• 1976 » Shinobu Asagoe, Japanese tennis player
• 1977 » Chris Spurling, American baseball player
• 1977 » Harun Tekin, Turkish singer and guitarist
• 1977 » Mark Stoermer, American bass player, songwriter, and producer
• 1978 » Simon Larose, Canadian tennis player
• 1979 » Florian Zeller, French author and playwright
• 1979 » Neil Shanahan, Irish racing driver († 1999)
• 1979 » Randy McMichael, American football player
• 1980 » Jevgeni Novikov, Estonian footballer

• 1971 » Franz Stangl, Austrian SS officer (b. 1908)
• 1974 » Vannevar Bush, American engineer and academic (b. 1890)
• 1975 » Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis, Greek architect (b. 1913)
• 1975 » Rod Serling, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1924)
• 1978 » Clifford Dupont, English-Rhodesian lawyer and politician, 1st President of Rhodesia (b. 1905)
• 1980 » José Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor (b. 1895)
• 1981 » Terry Fox, Canadian runner and activist (b. 1958)
• 1983 » Alf Francis, German-English motor racing mechanic and racing car constructor (b. 1918)
• 1984 » Yigael Yadin, Israeli archaeologist, general, and politician (b. 1917)
• 1985 » Lynd Ward, American author and illustrator (b. 1905)

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. Linda
6. Marieke
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.
• May 12 » In Zaire, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center of the province of Shaba (now known as Katanga); the local government asks the US, France and Belgium to restore order.
• June 9 » The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men.
• June 26 » Air Canada Flight 189, flying to Toronto, overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of the 107 passengers on board perish.
• September 19 » The Solomon Islands join the United Nations.
• December 6 » Spain ratifies the Spanish Constitution of 1978 in a referendum.

The temperature on June 28, 1978 was between 8.7 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest.