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• Kayln Schuld, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten († 1986)
• toon ottenheijm, helden-panningen
• Melissa D. Harrer

• Arie Tuinenburg (77), Gouda
• Bernardus Firmin Meersschaut (91), Zottegem
• Bernardus Wilhelmus Gerardus GIEZENAAR (51), Nuth, Limburg, Nederland
• Anna Maaike Verhoeven (84)
• Bertha Adriana van Horen (77), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Alphonsus Ludovicus De Maeyer (78), Eppegem
• Albert Willems (79), Roodeschool
• Aaltje de Vries (70)
• Alberta Maria Nerynck (80), Zuienkerke,8377,West Vlaanderen,Vlaanderen,BELGIE
• Bertus Regtop (57), Enschede, Overijssel, Nederland

• 1975 » Wes Borland, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1976 » Chito Miranda, Filipino singer-songwriter
• 1977 » Tsuneyasu Miyamoto, Japanese footballer
• 1978 » Ashton Kutcher, American model, actor, producer, and entrepreneur
• 1978 » Daniel Van Buyten, Belgian football player
• 1978 » David Aebischer, Swiss ice hockey player
• 1978 » Endy Chávez, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1979 » Daniel Bierofka, German footballer and coach
• 1979 » Sam J. Miller, American author
• 1979 » Tawakkol Karman, Yemeni journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate

• 1963 » Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist and manager (b. 1902)
• 1964 » Sofoklis Venizelos, Greek captain and politician, 133rd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1894)
• 1968 » Nick Adams, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1931)
• 1972 » Walter Lang, American director and screenwriter (b. 1896)
• 1979 » Josef Mengele, German SS officer and physician (b. 1911)
• 1986 » Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian, anthropologist, and physicist (b. 1923)
• 1990 » Alan Perlis, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1922)
• 1990 » Alfredo M. Santos, Filipino general (b. 1905)
• 1991 » Amos Yarkoni, Israeli colonel (b. 1920)
• 1994 » Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer and conductor (b. 1913)

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.
• January 31 » The Crown of St. Stephen (also known as the Holy Crown of Hungary) goes on public display after being returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after World War II.
• February 13 » Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.
• March 2 » Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.
• May 8 » The first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler.
• September 15 » Muhammad Ali outpointed Leon Spinks in a rematch to become the first boxer to win the world heavyweight title three times at the Superdome in New Orleans.
• November 18 » In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple to a mass murder–suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.

The temperature on February 7, 1978 was between -2.6 and 1.6 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.