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

• Arie Kraal (74), Papendrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltjen Waijerink (56), Beerzerveld
• Cornelius Franciscus Josephus Vermeer (80), Boxtel
• Anna Elisabeth QUADFLIEG (81), Bree Belgie
• Adrianus Thierry (89), Voorburg
• Cornelis Rip (83), 's Gravenhage
• Cornelis Johannes Kooijman (57)
• Aafke Afina Maria Boermans (89), Leeuwarden
• Cornelis de Gruijter (80), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Ben Tienter (88)

• 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.
• February 9 » The Budd Company unveils its first SPV-2000 self-propelled railcar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• March 2 » Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.
• June 22 » Charon, the first of Pluto's satellites to be discovered, was first seen at the United States Naval Observatory by James W. Christy.
• September 7 » While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Gullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from a specially-designed umbrella.
• September 19 » The Solomon Islands join the United Nations.
• November 23 » The Geneva Frequency Plan of 1975 goes into effect, realigning many of Europe's longwave and mediumwave broadcasting frequencies.

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.