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• Claudia Minderhoud († 1992)
• Bas de Bie, Vught, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Femke Alberta Cornelia Paulina Francissen, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland († 1980)
• Marjan Lisette Knippenberg, Nijmegen, Gelderland, Nederland
• Claudia Minderhoud († 1992)

• Adriana Koerts (56), velsen
• Catharina Dorethea Johanna Bakker (45), Boxtel, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Corrie Eleanor WILLCOX (48), Tasmania, Australia
• Dirkje Willemina de Hoog (93), Rotterdam
• Betty Burr Owen (77), Transylvania Co., North Carolina, United States
• Elsa Lina Frieda Müller (85), Viersen
• Charles Wray Stewart (83), Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa
• Ale Hoogma (64), Goor
• Annie Francisca Everaerts (48), Sittard, Nederland
• Dulcie R. Tunstall Yeargin [[KszFgmcCorinthBNCBu]]4 (79), Oxford, Granville County, North Carolina ql

• 1973 » Maxwell, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1974 » Jewel, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actress, and poet
• 1974 » Manuela Schwesig, German politician, German Federal Minister of Family Affairs
• 1976 » Ricardinho, Brazilian footballer and manager
• 1977 » Ilia Kulik, Russian figure skater
• 1978 » Scott Raynor, American drummer
• 1979 » Brian Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1979 » Rasual Butler, American basketball player († 2018)
• 1980 » Ben Ross, Australian rugby league player
• 1980 » Theofanis Gekas, Greek footballer

• 1965 » David Smith, American sculptor (b. 1906)
• 1975 » Moms Mabley, American comedian and actor (b. 1894)
• 1979 » S. Selvanayagam, Sri Lankan geographer and academic (b. 1932)
• 1981 » David Lewis, Belarusian-Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1909)
• 1981 » Gene Green, American baseball player (b. 1933)
• 1981 » George Jessel, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1898)
• 1981 » Rayner Heppenstall, English author and poet (b. 1911)
• 1986 » Sterling Hayden, American actor (b. 1916)
• 1989 » Georgy Tovstonogov, Russian director and producer (b. 1915)
• 1989 » Karl Koch, German computer hacker (b. 1965)

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. 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.
• February 9 » The Budd Company unveils its first SPV-2000 self-propelled railcar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• March 2 » Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.
• April 1 » The Philippine College of Commerce, through a presidential decree, becomes the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
• April 17 » Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking a communist coup d'état in Afghanistan.
• July 25 » Birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF.
• November 17 » The Star Wars Holiday Special airs on CBS, receiving negative reception from critics, fans, and even Star Wars creator George Lucas.

The temperature on May 23, 1978 was between 8.8 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (6%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest.