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• Anneke Bonnema, Rijperkerk (Ryptsjerk), Friesland, Nederland († 2022)
• († 1981)
• Remco Aize Kramer, Emmeloord, Flevoland, Nederland († 1980)

• Arie van der Waal (74), Numansdorp
• Anna Jannereth (75), Wyoming, Kent, MI
• Annigje Alida Kalkman (80), Ridderkerk
• Adrianus Josephus Hirdes (84), Venlo
• Charles Burda (76), Berwyn Cook Illinois, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus Josephus Hirdes (84), Venlo
• Adriana Maria Pape (71), Den Helder
• Alice Smith (75), Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan
• Catharina Geertruida Defourny (69), Amsterdam, Nederland
• Albert Koller (77), Midden-Groningen (Uiterburen), Groningen, Nederland

• 1977 » Andy Phillips, American baseball player and coach
• 1977 » Ville Nieminen, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1978 » Blaine Neal, American baseball player
• 1978 » Igor Semshov, Russian footballer
• 1978 » Imani Coppola, American singer-songwriter and violinist
• 1978 » Martín Méndez, Uruguayan bass player and songwriter
• 1978 » Myleene Klass, Austrian/Filipino-English singer, pianist, and model
• 1978 » Robert Glasper, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
• 1978 » Tim Hasselbeck, American football player and sportscaster
• 1979 » Lord Frederick Windsor, English journalist and financier

• 1963 » Otto Struve, Ukrainian-American astronomer and academic (b. 1897)
• 1970 » Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (b. 1933)
• 1971 » Igor Stravinsky, Russian-American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1882)
• 1974 » Hudson Fysh, Australian pilot and businessman, co-founded Qantas Airways Limited (b. 1895)
• 1974 » Willem Marinus Dudok, Dutch architect (b. 1884)
• 1977 » Kōichi Kido, Japanese politician, 13th Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan (b. 1889)
• 1979 » Ivan Vasilyov, Bulgarian architect, designed the SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library (b. 1893)
• 1983 » Jayanto Nath Chaudhuri, Indian General who served as the Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army from 1962 to 1966 and the Military Governor of Hyderabad State from 1948 to 1949. (b. 1908)
• 1992 » Isaac Asimov, American science fiction writer (b. 1920)
• 1994 » Juvénal Habyarimana, Rwandan banker and politician, 3rd President of Rwanda (b. 1937)

• 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 24 » Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.
• February 17 » The Troubles: The Provisional IRA detonates an incendiary bomb at the La Mon restaurant, near Belfast, killing 12 and seriously injuring 30 others, all Protestants.
• September 16 » The 7.4 M_w  Tabas earthquake affects the city of Tabas, Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 15,000 people were killed.
• October 16 » Pope John Paul II becomes the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.
• October 21 » Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft.
• December 4 » Following the murder of Mayor George Moscone, Dianne Feinstein becomes San Francisco's first female mayor.

The temperature on April 6, 1978 was between -1.1 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (93%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.