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• Frederik Lintermans, Lier
• Alexander Kouseband, Nederland
• Martijn Kouseband
• Diego SMITHUIS, Adroqué, Argentinië
• mathijs bosch, baarlo († 1983)
• jessy peeters, helden-beringe

• Aartje Bakker (82), Zwartebroek
• aart HAK (88), den haag
• Alfredo Morales (64), Los Angeles
• Arij Willem Geluk (91), Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Charley Knight (73), Lowton, Greater Manchester, UK
• Bernardine Josephine Savelkoul (84), Anderlecht, Provincie Brabant, België
• Anna Bruijgoms (73), Breda
• Albertus Stephanus Schabbink (65)
• Aggeus Jacob Dirk Veen (72), Koog aan de Zaan, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Boekel (87), Zaandam, Zaanstad, Noord-Holland, Nederland

• 1975 » Dejan Savić, Yugoslavian and Serbian water polo player
• 1976 » Frédéric Niemeyer, Canadian tennis player and coach
• 1976 » Steve Finnan, Irish international footballer
• 1977 » Carlos Beltrán, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
• 1977 » Diego Placente, Argentine footballer
• 1978 » Diego Quintana, Argentine footballer
• 1980 » Fernando Arce, Mexican footballer
• 1980 » Karen Asrian, Armenian chess player († 2008)
• 1981 » Taylor Dent, American tennis player
• 1981 » Yuko Nakanishi, Japanese swimmer

• 1970 » Otis Spann, American singer and pianist (b. 1930)
• 1972 » Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (b. 1892)
• 1974 » Bud Abbott, American comedian and producer (b. 1895)
• 1975 » Pete Ham, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)
• 1976 » Mark Tobey, American-Swiss painter and educator (b. 1890)
• 1980 » Alejo Carpentier, Swiss-Cuban musicologist and author (b. 1904)
• 1982 » Ville Ritola, Finnish runner (b. 1896)
• 1983 » Erol Güngör, Turkish sociologist, psychologist, and academic (b. 1938)
• 1983 » Rolf Stommelen, German race car driver (b. 1943)
• 1984 » Rafael Pérez y Pérez, Spanish author (b. 1891)

1. Jan
2. Martijn
3. Jeroen
4. David
5. Mark
6. Dennis
7. Johannes
8. Peter
9. Michael
10. Patrick
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. Jessica
10. Esther
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 2 » On the orders of the President of Pakistan, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, paramilitary forces opened fire on peaceful protesting workers in Multan, Pakistan; it is known as 1978 massacre at Multan Colony Textile Mills.
• April 28 » President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
• August 13 » One hundred fifty Palestinians in Beirut are killed in a terrorist attack during the second phase of the Lebanese Civil War.
• 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.
• November 23 » The Geneva Frequency Plan of 1975 goes into effect, realigning many of Europe's longwave and mediumwave broadcasting frequencies.

The temperature on April 24, 1978 was between 4.6 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.