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• Monique Reißen
• Paul A van Dam († 2005)
• Michael Schaefers, Amsterdam,Amsterdam,Noord Holland,Nederland
• Goedele Beerten, Hasselt († 2008)
• Johan Herman Connellan, Australie († 1993)

• Arthur J. Stiers (89), Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio
• Antonius Tom Erich (67), Blaricum, Nederland
• Clara Bashore Miller (89), Greenville, Darke, Ohio, Verenigde Staten
• Bela Graaf Hoyos van Sprinzenstein (77), Boedapest
• anna HOOGWERF (70), rotterdam
• Abraham van Zijderveld (Zijdervelt) (48), Hoogmade
• Cornelis Johannes de Raaff (79), Breda, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Aafke Ramaker (69), Lutjegast, Groningen, Nederland
• Carolus Theodorus Franciscus Bongers (74), Roermond
• Agada de Vreugd (17), Leiden

• 1977 » Douglas Sequeira, Costa Rican footballer and manager
• 1977 » Jared Fogle, former spokesperson for chain restaurant Subway
• 1978 » Andrew Rannells, American actor and singer
• 1978 » Julian Casablancas, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1978 » Kobe Bryant, American basketball player and businessman († 2020)
• 1978 » Randal Tye Thomas, American journalist and politician († 2014)
• 1979 » Edgar Sosa, Mexican boxer
• 1979 » Jessica Bibby, Australian basketball player
• 1979 » Saskia Clark, English sailor
• 1979 » Zuzana Váleková, Slovak tennis player

• 1966 » Francis X. Bushman, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1883)
• 1967 » Georges Berger, Belgian race car driver (b. 1918)
• 1967 » Nathaniel Cartmell, American runner and coach (b. 1883)
• 1974 » Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist and author (b. 1888)
• 1975 » Faruk Gürler, Turkish general (b. 1913)
• 1977 » Naum Gabo, Russian sculptor and academic (b. 1890)
• 1982 » Stanford Moore, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
• 1987 » Didier Pironi, French race car and boat driver (b. 1952)
• 1989 » Mohammed Abed Elhai, Sudanese poet and academic (b. 1944)
• 1989 » R. D. Laing, Scottish psychiatrist and author (b. 1927)

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 31 » The Crown of St. Stephen (also known as the Holy Crown of Hungary) goes on public display after being returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after World War II.
• April 1 » The Philippine College of Commerce, through a presidential decree, becomes the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
• April 7 » Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.
• April 27 » Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
• May 25 » The first of a series of bombings orchestrated by the Unabomber detonates at Northwestern University resulting in minor injuries.
• December 6 » Spain ratifies the Spanish Constitution of 1978 in a referendum.

The temperature on August 23, 1978 was between 11.1 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 17.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (75%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.