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• Thomas de MÉVIUS, Uccle, 1180, Région Bruxelles-Capitale, Belgique
• Shannon Leigh Kollis, Rock Valley,Iowa,Verenigde Staten († 1996)
• Janette Ann REITSEMA, Abbotsford (British Columbia, Canada)
• Sébastien PISANI, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France († 2017)
• Roelfina Hendrika Bloemberg, Emmen Drenthe Nederland († 1978)

• Albert Graaf van Pouget de Nadaillac (71), La Ferrière, Rhône-Alpes
• Christiaan Maria Strous (61), Breda,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Berend Nijman (83)
• Cornelia bax (50), Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Antonie Karel Box (75), Amsterdam
• Adriana Smaling (83), Maartensdijk
• Arris van der Heijden (86), Amsterdam
• Barbara Gerardina Peusens (77)
• Ana Rosa de Cerqueira Leme (94), Itapetininga, São Paulo, Brasil
• Abraham Elbert van Bemmel (77), Beekbergen, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1974 » James Blunt, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1975 » Drew Barrymore, American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1977 » Hakan Yakin, Swiss footballer
• 1977 » Timo Rose, German actor, director, and producer
• 1978 » Jenny Frost, English singer and dancer
• 1979 » Brett Emerton, Australian footballer
• 1979 » Lee Na-young, South Korean actress
• 1980 » Jeanette Biedermann, German singer-songwriter and actress
• 1980 » Kang Sung-hoon, South Korean singer
• 1980 » Shamari Fears, American singer-songwriter and actress

• 1973 » Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish author (b. 1899)
• 1973 » Jean-Jacques Bertrand, Canadian lawyer and politician, 21st Premier of Quebec (b. 1916)
• 1973 » Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (b. 1900)
• 1973 » Winthrop Rockefeller, American colonel and politician, 37th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1912)
• 1976 » Angela Baddeley, English actress (b. 1904)
• 1976 » Florence Ballard, American singer (b. 1943)
• 1980 » Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian painter, poet and playwright (b. 1886)
• 1982 » Josh Malihabadi, Indian-Pakistani poet and author (b. 1898)
• 1983 » Adrian Boult, English conductor (b. 1889)
• 1983 » Romain Maes, Belgian cyclist (b. 1913)

• 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 9 » President Soeharto inaugurated Jagorawi Toll Road, the first toll highway in Indonesia, connecting Jakarta, Bogor and Ciawi, West Java.
• March 15 » Somalia and Ethiopia signed a truce to end the Ethio-Somali War.
• March 22 » Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope suspended between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• June 25 » The rainbow flag representing gay pride is flown for the first time during the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
• September 19 » The Solomon Islands join the United Nations.
• November 14 » France conducts the Aphrodite nuclear test as 25th in the group of 29, 1975–78 French nuclear tests.

The temperature on February 22, 1978 was between 2.2 °C and 5.6 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.