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• Volker Fischer († 1979)
• Juul Reintjens († 1992)
• Christina M. Church
• Mathew John ODGERS († 2005)
• Gerben Mein († 1993)

• Adriana Paans (79)
• Baukje Postma (79), -
• Alida Geertruida VLAK (81), Amsterdam
• Basil Wheeler (65)
• Albert Lameijer (67)
• Albertus van de Lagemaat (90), Bodegraven
• Adriana Elisabeth Roose (85)
• Bastiaan Van Genderen (66)
• antonius jozeph (anton) (Margeretha Maria Helena Alida (Gre) Dillerop Ahlers) Dillerop (72), emmen
• Alfred Johannes Rudolf Heinrich Oellermann (79)

• 1976 » Álvaro Recoba, Uruguayan footballer
• 1976 » Scott Downs, American baseball player
• 1976 » Stephen Gately, Irish singer-songwriter and actor († 2009)
• 1977 » Tamar Braxton, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1978 » Zachery Kouwe, American journalist
• 1979 » Andrew Ference, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1979 » Samoa Joe, American professional wrestler
• 1979 » Stephen Kramer Glickman, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and fashion designer
• 1979 » Stormy Daniels, born Stephanie Gregory, American adult film actress
• 1980 » Danny Califf, American soccer player

• 1965 » Amos Alonzo Stagg, American football player and coach (b. 1862)
• 1974 » Louis Kahn, American architect and academic, designed Jatiyo Sangsad Bhaban (b. 1901)
• 1976 » Luchino Visconti, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1906)
• 1981 » Paul Dean, American baseball player (b. 1913)
• 1983 » Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• 1983 » Louisa E. Rhine, American botanist and parapsychologist (b. 1891)
• 1986 » Clarence D. Lester, African-American fighter pilot (b.1923)
• 1990 » Capucine, French model and actress (b. 1928)
• 1992 » Grace Stafford, American actress (b. 1903)
• 1993 » Helen Hayes, American actress (b. 1900)

1. Jan
2. Martijn
3. Jeroen
4. Mark
5. David
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.
• March 5 » The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
• April 14 » Tbilisi Demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
• April 17 » Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking a communist coup d'état in Afghanistan.
• May 8 » The first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler.
• 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.
• December 4 » Following the murder of Mayor George Moscone, Dianne Feinstein becomes San Francisco's first female mayor.

The temperature on March 17, 1978 was between -0.8 °C and 6.3 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (20%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.