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• Rendely Severiano Sophia
• San Juana Macias

• Annigje van den Bos (44), Zuid.IJsselmeerpolders
• Anna Maria Haubrich (80), Rheydt
• Bernardus Johannes Geise (66), Rotterdam
• Antonius Albertus Tonny de Vries (67)
• Cornelia Maria Witteveen (84), Heerenveen, Fr. NL
• Cornelis Drost (80), Zeist
• Arie RAVESLOOT (89), Lichtenvoorde
• Adrianus Johannes Broeders (89), Tilburg
• Arnold Brummelkamp (68)
• Abraham Boutkan (78), Utrecht

• 1977 » Bucky Covington, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1977 » Jully Black, Canadian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1977 » Nick Punto, American baseball player
• 1978 » Ali Karimi, Iranian footballer and manager
• 1978 » Emma Lewell-Buck, English social worker and politician
• 1978 » Júlio Sérgio, Brazilian footballer and manager
• 1978 » Kensaku Kishida, Japanese actor and entertainer
• 1978 » Matthew Bulbeck, English cricketer
• 1978 » Maurice Evans, American basketball player
• 1978 » Tim de Cler, Dutch footballer

• 1973 » Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel, Turkish poet, author, and politician (b. 1898)
• 1974 » Ivory Joe Hunter, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1914)
• 1975 » Jaime Montestrela, Portuguese-French poet and author (b. 1925)
• 1977 » Bucky Harris, American baseball player and manager (b. 1896)
• 1977 » Tasos Giannopoulos, Greek actor and producer (b. 1931)
• 1978 » Norman Rockwell, American painter and illustrator (b. 1894)
• 1983 » James Booker, American singer and pianist (b. 1939)
• 1983 » Mordecai Kaplan, Lithuanian-American rabbi and educator (b. 1881)
• 1985 » Jacques Hnizdovsky, Ukrainian-American painter and illustrator (b. 1915)
• 1985 » Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourger cyclist (b. 1899)

1. Jan
2. Martijn
3. Jeroen
4. David
5. Mark
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. 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.
• January 19 » The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America continues until 2003.
• March 2 » Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.
• April 28 » President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
• 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.
• December 16 » Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first major American city to default on its financial obligations since the Great Depression.
• 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 November 8, 1978 was between 1.6 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (55%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast.