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• Aline HAUGLUSTAINE († 2015)
• Sacharias Kuit, Wassenaar

• Cornelis de Groot (92), Huizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anthonius Marie van Bemmelen (80), 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
• Aloisius Backx (81), Roosendaal
• Clyde Percy HERMAN (85), Newport Orleans County Vermont U.S.A
• Anna Hendrika van Haastert (97), Leidschendam
• Anne Marinus (93), Heerenveen(Fr)
• Albertus Kruiper (82), Raalte
• Aaltje Wakker (56)
• Antonie van den Berg (102), Rotterdam
• * Hendrika Teuntje van Dongen (83), Breda

• 1977 » António Lebo Lebo, Angolan footballer
• 1977 » Marco Cassetti, Italian footballer
• 1977 » Massimo Ambrosini, Italian footballer
• 1978 » Adam Rickitt, English singer
• 1978 » Lorenzo Odone, Italian-American adrenoleukodystrophy patient who inspired the 1992 film, Lorenzo's Oil († 2008)
• 1978 » Pelle Almqvist, Swedish singer-songwriter
• 1978 » Sébastien Grosjean, French tennis player
• 1979 » Arne Friedrich, German footballer
• 1979 » Brian Kendrick, American wrestler
• 1979 » John Rheinecker, American baseball player († 2017)

• 1970 » Eva Hesse, American artist (b. 1936)
• 1970 » John Gunther, American journalist and author (b. 1901)
• 1972 » Moe Berg, American baseball player, coach, and spy (b. 1902)
• 1972 » Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-American engineer and academic (b. 1878)
• 1973 » George Harriman, English businessman (b. 1908)
• 1977 » Ba Maw, Burmese politician, Prime Minister of Burma (b. 1893)
• 1979 » John H. Wood Jr., American lawyer and judge (b. 1916)
• 1979 » Mary Pickford, Canadian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded United Artists (b. 1892)
• 1982 » Romy Schneider, Austrian actress (b. 1938)
• 1983 » Arvīds Pelše, Latvian-Russian historian and politician (b. 1899)

1. Jan
2. Martijn
3. Jeroen
4. David
5. Mark
6. Dennis
7. Johannes
8. Peter
9. Michael
10. Patrick
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 13 » Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.
• June 15 » King Hussein of Jordan marries American Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor.
• June 25 » The rainbow flag representing gay pride is flown for the first time during the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
• July 25 » Puerto Rican police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders.
• November 27 » The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is founded in the city of Riha (Urfa) in Turkey.
• December 27 » Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of fascist dictatorship.

The temperature on May 29, 1978 was between 9.1 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 14.1 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast.