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• Amy McNiel († 1978)

• Antonij Brinkcate (71), Goor, Overijssel, Netherlands
• Arie Jonker (64), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Arthur Charles PEKER (68)
• Anna Magdalena Marie Raman (86), Gent
• Aloysius Petrus Maria Antonius Grimmon (92), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Cornelia Kosten (90)
• Arent Jan Schoolderman (71), Apeldooorn
• Alida Bakker (84), Velp, Gelderland, Nederland
• * Anna Maria van de Giessen (75)
• Alida Krijgsman (80)

• 1976 » Chad Urmston, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1976 » Nalini Anantharaman, French mathematician
• 1977 » Marty Reasoner, American ice hockey player and coach
• 1977 » Shane Williams, Welsh rugby union player
• 1977 » Tim Thomas, American basketball player
• 1978 » Abdoulaye Faye, Senegalese footballer
• 1979 » Corinne Bailey Rae, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1979 » Pedro Mendes, Portuguese international footballer, midfielder
• 1979 » Steve Evans, Welsh footballer
• 1980 » Steve Blake, American basketball player

• 1961 » Karl Albiker, German sculptor, lithographer, and educator (b. 1878)
• 1966 » Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian poet and politician (b. 1883)
• 1969 » Karl Jaspers, German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher (b. 1883)
• 1969 » Levi Eshkol, Israeli soldier and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1895)
• 1981 » Howard Hanson, American composer, conductor, and educator (b. 1896)
• 1981 » Robert Aickman, English author and activist (b. 1914)
• 1985 » Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-American economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
• 1989 » Roy Eldridge, American trumpet player (b. 1911)
• 1993 » Constance Ford, American model and actress (b. 1923)
• 1994 » Bill Hicks, American comedian (b. 1961)

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. Esther
10. Jessica
11. Wendy
12. Kim
13. Bianca
14. Anna
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.
• February 8 » Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
• June 1 » The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
• June 22 » Charon, the first of Pluto's satellites to be discovered, was first seen at the United States Naval Observatory by James W. Christy.
• August 26 » Papal conclave: Albino Luciani is elected as Pope John Paul I.
• November 3 » Dominica gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
• November 27 » The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is founded in the city of Riha (Urfa) in Turkey.

The temperature on February 26, 1978 was between 6.6 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (72%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south.