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• Antje Watses (Anna) Spoelstra (78), Los Angeles County, California, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus Hogedoorn (Hoogendoorn) (86), Lisse
• ADRIAAN MIJNDERT BROOD (64), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Akke Jepkema (90), Kalamazoo, Michigan, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus Jacobus Faro (88)
• Arie Duijn (79), Alkmaar
• Adrianus Philippus Onderwater (74), Delft
• Anthony Steven Miller (62), New Jersey, Verenigde Staten
• Aaltje van den Brink (79), Lunteren
• Adrianus Antonius Leijten (59), Rotterdam (Rotterdam), Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1976 » Freddie Prinze, Jr., American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1976 » Gaz Coombes, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1976 » Juan Encarnación, Dominican baseball player
• 1977 » James Van Der Beek, American actor
• 1977 » Johann Vogel, Swiss footballer
• 1978 » Nick Zano, American actor and producer
• 1979 » Andy Ross, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1979 » Apathy, American rapper and producer
• 1979 » Tom Chaplin, English singer-songwriter
• 1980 » Stephen Milne, Australian footballer

• 1971 » Harold Lloyd, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1893)
• 1973 » Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, American keyboard player and songwriter (b. 1945)
• 1975 » George Stevens, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1904)
• 1976 » Alfons Rebane, Estonian colonel (b. 1908)
• 1983 » Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, English lieutenant and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1904)
• 1983 » Chabuca Granda, Peruvian-American singer-songwriter (b. 1920)
• 1983 » William Walton, English composer (b. 1902)
• 1985 » Edward Andrews, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1988 » Amar Singh Chamkila, Indian singer-songwriter (b. 1961)
• 1988 » Werner Hartmann, German physicist and academic (b. 1912)

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 18 » The European Court of Human Rights finds the United Kingdom's government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture.
• March 2 » Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.
• March 14 » The Israel Defense Forces launch Operation Litani, a seven-day campaign to invade and occupy southern Lebanon.
• July 1 » The Northern Territory in Australia is granted self-government.
• July 10 » President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
• September 25 » PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, killing 144 people.

The temperature on March 8, 1978 was between 2.2 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 4.1 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest.