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• Roel van Kesteren († 1980)
• Rudy van den Bergh, Brasschaat, Antwerpen, België († 1978)
• David Nathan Berger, San Diego, San Diego County, California, Verenigde Staten († 2016)
• Jolanda Slot

• Cornelia van den Durpel (93)
• Aleida Antonia Maria Scholten (100), Amsterdam
• Aaltjen Waijerink (56), Beerzerveld
• Cornelis de Gruijter (80), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anton Menkehorst (78), Greven (Dld)
• Bouwe Willem Jongma (71), Leeuwarden
• Aafke Afina Maria Boermans (89), Leeuwarden
• Adrianus Thierry (89), Voorburg
• Cornelis Johannes Kooijman (57)
• Cornelius Franciscus Josephus Vermeer (80), Boxtel

• 1975 » Jay Asher, American author
• 1975 » Marion Cotillard, French-American actress and singer
• 1976 » Georgie Bingham, British radio and television presenter
• 1977 » Nick Curran, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer († 2012)
• 1977 » Roy Carroll, Northern Irish goalkeeper and manager
• 1978 » Małgorzata Glinka-Mogentale, Polish female volleyball player
• 1979 » Andy van der Meyde, Dutch footballer
• 1979 » Cameron Bruce, Australian footballer and coach
• 1980 » Martina Hingis, Czechoslovakia-born Swiss tennis player
• 1980 » Milagros Sequera, Venezuelan tennis player

• 1973 » Peter Pitseolak, Canadian photographer and author (b. 1902)
• 1974 » Carlos Prats, Chilean general and politician, Chilean Minister of Defense (b. 1915)
• 1977 » Mary Ford, American singer and guitarist (b. 1924)
• 1978 » Edgar Bergen, American actor and ventriloquist (b. 1903)
• 1985 » Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist (b. 1900)
• 1985 » Simone Signoret, French actress (b. 1921)
• 1986 » Nicholas Kaldor, Hungarian-British economist (b. 1908)
• 1987 » Alfred Bester, American author and screenwriter (b. 1913)
• 1988 » Al Holbert, American race car driver (b. 1946)
• 1989 » Virgil Thomson, American composer and critic (b. 1896)

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.
• March 9 » President Soeharto inaugurated Jagorawi Toll Road, the first toll highway in Indonesia, connecting Jakarta, Bogor and Ciawi, West Java.
• March 23 » The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.
• April 17 » Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking a communist coup d'état in Afghanistan.
• August 17 » Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey, France near Paris, 137 hours after leaving Presque Isle, Maine.
• November 23 » Cyclone kills about 1000 people in eastern Sri Lanka.
• December 22 » The pivotal Third Plenum of the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is held in Beijing, with Deng Xiaoping reversing Mao-era policies to pursue a program for Chinese economic reform.

The temperature on September 30, 1978 was between 8.6 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 22.3 mm of rain during 9.2 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.