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• Thomas Harold Pieter van Leeuwen, Amersfoort, Utrecht, Nederland († 2010)
• Véronique Piscaer, Mechelen, Antwerpen, België († 2021)

• Schwering (59), Borne
• Adrianus Leonardus Overgaag (65), Bussum
• Aart van Vuure (82), Schellingwoude
• Archibald Victor Mason (66), Masterton, Wairarapa, New Zealand
• Adam Poppelier (88), Den Bosch, Nederland
• Albert Geerligs (57), Vries
• Christiaan Gerardus Meijer (76)
• Arend Tissingh (89)
• Andries Schuurman (81), Zwolle
• Abraham (Bram) Termorshuizen (57), Warrandyte, Australië

• 1976 » Glenn Morrison, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1976 » Roberto Goretti, Italian footballer
• 1976 » Steven Bell, Australian rugby league player
• 1976 » Zaza Enden, Georgian-Turkish wrestler, basketball player, and coach
• 1977 » Elisabeth Hasselbeck, American talk show host and author
• 1978 » Jake Johnson, American actor
• 1979 » Abdulaziz al-Omari, Saudi Arabian terrorist, hijacker of American Airlines Flight 11 († 2001)
• 1979 » Ronald Curry, American football player and coach
• 1980 » Lucy Shuker, English tennis player
• 1980 » Miguel Pérez, Spanish footballer

• 1971 » Audie Murphy, American soldier and actor, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1925)
• 1972 » Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)
• 1975 » Ezzard Charles, American boxer (b. 1921)
• 1976 » Zainul Abedin, Bangladeshi painter and sculptor (b. 1914)
• 1980 » Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician and academic (b. 1895)
• 1981 » Mary Lou Williams, American pianist and composer (b. 1910)
• 1981 » Stefan Wyszyński, Polish cardinal (b. 1901)
• 1982 » H. Jones, English colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1940)
• 1983 » Erastus Corning 2nd, American soldier and politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany (b. 1909)
• 1984 » Eric Morecambe, English actor and comedian (b. 1926)

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. Esther
10. Jessica
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 31 » The Crown of St. Stephen (also known as the Holy Crown of Hungary) goes on public display after being returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after World War II.
• 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.
• April 17 » Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking a communist coup d'état in Afghanistan.
• May 8 » The first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler.
• 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.
• December 6 » Spain ratifies the Spanish Constitution of 1978 in a referendum.

The temperature on May 28, 1978 was between 9.8 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 12.0 hours of sunshine (74%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast.