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• petrus johannes maria (pieter) fleuren, helden-dorp
• Hendrikus Bernardus Maas († 1996)
• Johannes Visser († 2001)
• Marvin Timothi John Koswal, Den Haag († 2015)
• Johan Visser († 2001)
• Tina Alisha Traeger († 1978)

• Annie Ree Mills (75)
• Cornelia van de Schoot (73), Oirschot
• Anthonius Jasper Goemans (72), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adriana Pieternella van Gend (83), Krimpen aan de IJssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arnoldus Cornelis Wilhelmus van As (68), Hilversum
• Albert Van Oosten (84)
• Alida Christina Kennis (68)
• Albertus Jacobus (Bart) van Bindsbergen (86), Zevenaar
• Aukelina Michiels BUREMA (95), Molenhorn (Winschoten) Groningen Netherlands
• Adrianus Petrus van der Meijs (76), Tilburg

• 1976 » Alicia Silverstone, American actress, producer, and author
• 1976 » Elisandro Naressi Roos, Brazilian footballer
• 1976 » Mauro Camoranesi, Argentinian-Italian footballer and manager
• 1977 » Richard Reed Parry, Canadian guitarist, songwriter, and producer
• 1978 » Kei Horie, Japanese actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1978 » Kyle Lohse, American baseball player
• 1978 » Phillip Glasser, American actor and producer
• 1979 » Adam Voges, Australian cricketer
• 1979 » Björn Phau, German tennis player
• 1979 » Rachael Leigh Cook, American actress

• 1970 » Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)
• 1974 » Anne Sexton, American poet and author (b. 1928)
• 1975 » Joan Whitney Payson, American businesswoman and philanthropist (b. 1903)
• 1977 » José Ber Gelbard, Argentinian activist and politician (b. 1917)
• 1980 » Pyotr Masherov, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia (b. 1918)
• 1981 » Freddie Lindstrom, American baseball player and coach (b. 1905)
• 1982 » Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and conductor (b. 1932)
• 1982 » Stefanos Stefanopoulos, Greek politician, 165th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1898)
• 1988 » Zlatko Grgić, Croatian-Canadian animator, director, and screenwriter (b. 1931)
• 1989 » Graham Chapman, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1941)

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 1 » Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747, crashes into the Arabian Sea, due to instrument failure, spatial disorientation, and pilot error, off the coast of Bombay, India, killing all 213 people on board.
• January 24 » Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.
• March 11 » Coastal Road massacre: At least 37 are killed and more than 70 are wounded when Fatah hijack an Israeli bus, prompting Israel's Operation Litani.
• April 7 » Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.
• May 1 » Japan's Naomi Uemura, travelling by dog sled, becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone.
• November 27 » The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is founded in the city of Riha (Urfa) in Turkey.

The temperature on October 4, 1978 was between 3.7 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.