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• Ivo Roseboom, Zwolle

• Arie van den Herik (80), Sliedrecht
• Baukje Huizinga (70)
• Arie van den Herik (80), Sliedrecht
• Anna Petronella Reintjes
• Arie Heuvelman (59), Krimpen aan de IJssel
• Adriaantje van Pelt (82), Oud-Beijerland
• Arend van der Zaag (69), -
• Anna Johanna Lepoeter (69)
• Adriaantje van Pelt (82), Oud-Beijerland
• Anna lohschelder (94)

• 1976 » Amy Acker, American actress
• 1976 » Xavier Garbajosa, French rugby player
• 1977 » Peter van der Vlag, Dutch footballer
• 1978 » Marcelo Zalayeta, Uruguayan footballer
• 1978 » Neil Druckmann, American video game designer and author
• 1978 » Olli Jokinen, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1979 » Gareth McAuley, Northern Irish footballer
• 1979 » Matteo Ferrari, Italian footballer
• 1979 » Nick Stahl, American actor and producer
• 1979 » Niklas Hagman, Finnish ice hockey player

• 1969 » Claude Dornier, German engineer and businessman, founded Dornier Flugzeugwerke (b. 1884)
• 1969 » Princess Alice of Battenberg (b. 1885)
• 1973 » Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish engineer, invented the radar (b. 1892)
• 1975 » Constance McLaughlin Green, American historian and author (b. 1897)
• 1977 » Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Russian marshal and politician, Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union (b. 1895)
• 1977 » Katherine Milhous, American author and illustrator (b. 1894)
• 1979 » Jesse Pearson, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
• 1983 » Robert Aldrich, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1918)
• 1984 » Cecil M. Harden, American politician (b. 1894)
• 1986 » Edward Youde, Welsh-Chinese sinologist and diplomat, 26th Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1924)

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. 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 2 » On the orders of the President of Pakistan, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, paramilitary forces opened fire on peaceful protesting workers in Multan, Pakistan; it is known as 1978 massacre at Multan Colony Textile Mills.
• 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.
• June 15 » King Hussein of Jordan marries American Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor.
• July 10 » President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
• August 19 » In Iran, Cinema Rex fire caused more than 400 deaths.
• December 4 » Following the murder of Mayor George Moscone, Dianne Feinstein becomes San Francisco's first female mayor.

The temperature on December 5, 1978 was between -4.6 °C and 0.2 °C and averaged -2.0 °C. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (74%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east.