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• Rebecca Mae Stob, Holland, MI
• Melissa Joy de Jong, Sioux Center, Sioux County, Iowa († 2006)
• Melissa Joy de Jong, Sioux Center-Iowa (USA) († 2006)
• Marco Pijlman, Vegelingsoord († 1998)
• Bas Deurloo, Strijen († 1978)

• Catharina Scheffer (93), Oegstgeest,Gemeente Oegstgeest,South Holland,Netherlands
• Cornelia Adriana Catharina Tettelaar (88), Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis de JONG (65), Amersfoort,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aagje Oud (79), Ursem, NH, Netherlands
• Coba Jacobsma (84), Rock Valley, Sioux County, Iowa
• Constantinus Petrus Verbunt (70), Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Antonius van Looijen (88), Breda
• Bert (Gijsbert) Bezemer (72), Ripon-California
• Cornelia Adriana Catharina Tettelaar (88), SCHIEDAM, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Charles William Atterberry (74), Jennings, Pawnee, Oklahoma, United States

• 1977 » Graeme Dott, Scottish snooker player and coach
• 1977 » Maryam Mirzakhani, Iranian mathematician († 2017)
• 1977 » Onur Saylak, Turkish actor, filmmaker and director
• 1977 » Rachel Wilson, Canadian actress and voice actress
• 1978 » Aaron Abrams, Canadian actor
• 1978 » Aya Ishiguro, Japanese singer and fashion designer
• 1978 » Jason Biggs, American actor and comedian
• 1978 » Malin Åkerman, Swedish-Canadian model, actress, and singer
• 1979 » Aaron Yoo, American actor
• 1979 » Adrian Serioux,Canadian soccer player

• 1967 » John Masefield, English poet and author (b. 1878)
• 1970 » Nelly Sachs, German poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
• 1971 » Heinie Manush, American baseball player and coach (b. 1901)
• 1973 » Art Pollard, American race car driver (b. 1927)
• 1973 » Frances Marion, American screenwriter, novelist and journalist (b. 1888)
• 1974 » Wayne Maki, Canadian National Hockey League player (b. 1944)
• 1980 » Lillian Roth, American actress (b. 1910)
• 1981 » Benjamin Sheares, Singaporean professor and politician, 2nd President of Singapore (b. 1907)
• 1985 » Jean Dubuffet, French painter and sculptor (b. 1901)
• 1986 » Elisabeth Bergner, German actress (b. 1897)

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.
• 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 9 » President Soeharto inaugurated Jagorawi Toll Road, the first toll highway in Indonesia, connecting Jakarta, Bogor and Ciawi, West Java.
• March 16 » Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped. (He is later murdered by his captors.)
• March 23 » The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.
• May 3 » The first unsolicited bulk commercial email (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.
• September 17 » The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt.

The temperature on May 12, 1978 was between 5.3 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 6.1 mm of rain during 3.6 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (9%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.