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• Anita Boone, Leidschendam
• Quincy van Amelsvoort

• Anna Cornelia Josina Misset (80), Dalfsen, Overijssel, Nederland
• Eugénie Josephine Marie Marrès (87), Maastricht
• Elisabeth Gerrits Buis (69), Egmond, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Cor Post (19), Enschede
• Delia Price Henry (86), Bonham, Fannin County, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Dirk Johan van Wijk (73), Ermelo, Gelderland, Nederland
• Désiré 'Werner' Dehullu (60), Coulogne, P-d-C
• Elisabeth, Gerrits Buis (69), EaZ
• Cornelia Adriana Spitters (84), Oudenbosch
• Antoine de RIDDER (70), Nieuw-Vennep

• 1976 » Sebastian Arcelus, American actor, singer, and producer
• 1977 » Maarten Tjallingii, Dutch cyclist
• 1977 » Richard Wright, English footballer and coach
• 1978 » Bubba Watson, American golfer
• 1978 » Xavier Tondo, Spanish cyclist († 2011)
• 1979 » Colin Grzanna, German rugby player and surgeon
• 1979 » David Suazo, Honduran footballer and coach
• 1979 » Keith McLeod, American basketball player
• 1979 » Michalis Hatzigiannis, Cypriot singer-songwriter and producer
• 1979 » Romi Dames, Japanese-American actress

• 1972 » Alfred Schmidt, Estonian weightlifter (b. 1898)
• 1975 » Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer and actress (b. 1887)
• 1975 » Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1909)
• 1975 » Lionel Trilling, American critic, essayist, short story writer, and educator (b. 1905)
• 1977 » Alexey Stakhanov, Russian-Soviet miner, the Stakhanovite movement has been named after him (b. 1906)
• 1977 » Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American violinist and conductor (b. 1902)
• 1977 » René Goscinny, French author and illustrator (b. 1926)
• 1979 » Al Capp, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
• 1980 » Louis Alter, American musician (b. 1902)
• 1981 » Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa, Tibetan spiritual leader (b. 1924)

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.
• March 14 » The Israel Defense Forces launch Operation Litani, a seven-day campaign to invade and occupy southern Lebanon.
• May 8 » The first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler.
• July 10 » President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
• August 26 » Papal conclave: Albino Luciani is elected as Pope John Paul I.
• September 19 » The Solomon Islands join the United Nations.
• November 27 » In San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.

The temperature on November 5, 1978 was between 6.7 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.