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• Laura van Mourik, Dordrecht († 2022)
• Robert Jacques Chaigneau, Velp, Gelderland, Nederland († 1979)

• Carl Leland McCafferty (72), San Bernardino, California, United States
• Antonia Hendrika van Dijk (80)
• Bruin Pol (48), St.Catharines, Ontario, Canada
• Basiel VERBANCK (89), Oostende, 35013, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique
• Antonij de Haan (65)
• Bertha Geertruida Wiltink (89)
• Berendina Schuit (78)
• Berendina Schuit (78), Amersfoort
• Antonia Hendrika Dijk, van (80)
• Anthonia Hendrika van Dijk (80)

• 1974 » Iwan Thomas, Welsh sprinter and coach
• 1975 » Bradley Cooper, American actor and producer
• 1975 » Mike Grier, American ice hockey player and scout
• 1975 » Warrick Dunn, American football player
• 1976 » Diego Tristán, Spanish footballer
• 1978 » January Jones, American actress
• 1979 » Giuseppe Gibilisco, Italian pole vaulter
• 1979 » Kyle Calder, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1981 » Deadmau5 (Joel Thomas Zimmerman), Canadian musician
• 1982 » Janica Kostelić, Croatian skier

• 1972 » Tevfik Rüştü Aras, Turkish physician and politician, 6th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1883)
• 1974 » Lev Oborin, Russian pianist and educator (b. 1907)
• 1976 » John A. Costello, Irish lawyer and politician, 3rd Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1891)
• 1978 » Wyatt Emory Cooper, American author and screenwriter (b. 1927)
• 1979 » Billy Bletcher, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1894)
• 1979 » Charles Mingus, American bassist, composer, bandleader (b. 1922)
• 1981 » Harold Urey, American chemist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893)
• 1981 » Lanza del Vasto, Italian poet and philosopher (b. 1901)
• 1982 » Edmund Herring, Australian general and politician, 7th Chief Justice of Victoria (b. 1892)
• 1982 » Hans Conried, American actor (b. 1917)

• 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 18 » The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom's government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
• March 14 » The Israel Defense Forces launch Operation Litani, a seven-day campaign to invade and occupy southern Lebanon.
• March 23 » The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.
• July 25 » Puerto Rican police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders.
• November 15 » A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.
• December 6 » Spain ratifies the Spanish Constitution of 1978 in a referendum.

The temperature on January 5, 1978 was between -4.0 °C and 2.4 °C and averaged -0.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (8%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.