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• Maria Johanna Zeestraten († 1981)
• Damien Scott Koopman, Murray Bridge (Zuid Australië) († 1978)
• Sasja van der Kruijs, Breda
• Cindy Voorhaar, Zaandam

• Anna Maria Leemans (68)
• Adriana Kwint (66), Groningen,, Groningen, Nederland
• Damien Scott Koopman (0), Murray Bridge (Zuid Australië)
• Anne S Quinlan *** (82), Manatee, Manatee, Florida, United States
• Adrian M Oldenkamp (82), Rock Valley, Sioux County, Iowa
• Anthonia Engelina van Binsbergen (86)
• * Charles Hendrik van Belkum (70), Jagersfontein
• Catherine Agnes Kempen (75), Hillsboro, Washington, Oregon, Verenigde Staten
• Achiel Jules Declerck (81), Roeselare,8800,West-Vlaanderen,België
• Carter (61), Sacramento, Sacramento, California, Verenigde Staten

• 1977 » Danny Mills, English footballer and sportscaster
• 1977 » Lee Hendrie, English footballer
• 1977 » Li Tie, Chinese footballer and manager
• 1978 » Charles Kamathi, Kenyan runner
• 1978 » Marcus Giles, American baseball player
• 1978 » Ricardo Carvalho, Portuguese footballer
• 1979 » Jens Bergensten, Swedish video game designer, co-designed Minecraft
• 1979 » Mariusz Lewandowski, Polish footballer
• 1979 » Michal Martikán, Slovak slalom canoeist
• 1979 » Milivoje Novaković, Slovenian footballer

• 1968 » Frank Walsh, Australian politician, 34th Premier of South Australia (b. 1897)
• 1971 » Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1908)
• 1973 » Jeannette Rankin, American social worker and politician (b. 1880)
• 1974 » Harry Ricardo, English engine designer and researcher (b. 1885)
• 1975 » Leroy Anderson, American composer and conductor (b. 1908)
• 1980 » Ian Curtis, English singer-songwriter (b. 1956)
• 1980 » Victims of Mount St. Helens eruption:
• 1981 » Arthur O'Connell, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1981 » William Saroyan, American novelist, playwright, and short story writer (b. 1908)
• 1987 » Mahdi Amel, Lebanese journalist, poet, and academic (b. 1936)

• 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 8 » Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
• April 28 » President of Afghanistan, Mohammed Daoud Khan, is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by pro-communist rebels.
• May 4 » The South African Defence Force attacks a SWAPO base at Cassinga in southern Angola, killing about 600 people.
• June 21 » The original production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, Evita, based on the life of Eva Perón, opens at the Prince Edward Theatre, London.
• 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.

The temperature on May 18, 1978 was between 5.3 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (69%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast.