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• Judith den Harder, Utrecht, Nederland († 1978)
• Robbie Bijl, Rotterdam, Nederland († 1978)
• Irma Wilhelmina van den Bosch, Ede († 2018)
• Robbie Bijl, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1978)
• Jiska den Harder, Utrecht, Nederland († 1978)

• Bernardus Johannes Sijbom (58), Emmen Drenthe Nederland
• Arijan van Vuure (67), Oudkarspel
• Bernardus Johannes Sijbom (58), Emmen, Drenthe, Nederland
• Frederik Matthijs van der Woude (67), Julianadorp (Den Helder)
• Everhardus Gerretsen (77), Den Haag
• Everhardus Gerretsen (77), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelia van den Bos (60), Vlaardingen, Nederland
• Arijan van Vuure (67), Oudkarspel
• Amelia Fanny CORNELIUS (89), Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
• Catherine Michielsen (68), Holland, Ottawa Co, Michigan, Verenigde Staten

• 1976 » Elsa Pataky, Spanish actress
• 1977 » Alexander Morozevich, Russian chess player and author
• 1978 » Adabel Guerrero, Argentinian actress, singer, and dancer
• 1978 » Ben Sheets, American baseball player and coach
• 1978 » Crystal Mangum, American murderer responsible for making false rape allegations in the Duke lacrosse case
• 1978 » Joo Sang-wook, South Korean actor
• 1978 » Mélissa Theuriau, French journalist
• 1978 » Shane Horgan, Irish rugby player and sportscaster
• 1979 » Deion Branch, American football player
• 1979 » Joey Mercury, American wrestler and producer

• 1968 » Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1969 » Mary Jo Kopechne, American educator and secretary (b. 1940)
• 1973 » Jack Hawkins, English actor (b. 1910)
• 1975 » Vaughn Bodē, American illustrator (b. 1941)
• 1981 » Sonja Branting-Westerståhl, Swedish lawyer (b. 1890)
• 1982 » Roman Jakobson, Russian–American linguist and theorist (b. 1896)
• 1984 » Grigori Kromanov, Estonian director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 1984 » Lally Bowers, English actress (b. 1914)
• 1987 » Gilberto Freyre, Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman (b. 1907)
• 1988 » Nico, German singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and actress (b. 1938)

• 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.
• February 19 » Egyptian forces raid Larnaca International Airport in an attempt to intervene in a hijacking, without authorisation from the Republic of Cyprus authorities. The Cypriot National Guard and Police forces kill 15 Egyptian commandos and destroy the Egyptian C-130 transport plane in open combat.
• 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.
• September 25 » PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, killing 144 people.
• October 3 » A Finnish Air Force DC-3 crashes, killing all 15 people on board.
• December 11 » The Lufthansa heist is committed by a group led by Lucchese family associate Jimmy Burke. It was the largest cash robbery ever committed on American soil, at that time.

The temperature on July 18, 1978 was between 9.3 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.